Chief pharmacologist of Moscow: With mild symptoms of SARS, it is not necessary to consult a doctor

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The chief clinical pharmacologist of the Moscow Health Department, Marina Zhuravleva, gave a number of recommendations to Muscovites amid the spread of the Omicron coronavirus strain in the capital.

According to her, you need to start self-treatment at the first symptoms of “omicron”. She clarified that most often it is fever, runny nose and sore throat. Patients are advised to first of all observe a home regimen, with mild symptoms, it is not necessary to consult a doctor.

“In most cases, acute respiratory viral infections, as with the symptoms of the omicron strain, can proceed more easily and with such a course, the disease does not require hospitalization, and often also some specific treatment,” the doctor told Lente.Ru.

At a temperature above 38-38.5 degrees, she advises taking an antipyretic based on paracetamol, and with a runny nose, use vasoconstrictor drugs. In cases where self-medication does not give a result after two or three days and new symptoms appear, you should consult a doctor.

Earlier, the chief otolaryngologist of the capital told what drugs to use for signs of “omicron”.

Source: Rosbalt

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