The corona contact restrictions also have their good points: there are far fewer colds.
Pharmacies also sell less of the following medicines.
Many notice it in themselves: Since the corona-related hygiene and distance rules and the introduction of the mask requirement, there have been fewer colds.
Closed schools and only partially open kindergartens also mean that lice spread less quickly.
The following viral disease has also been on the decline since the corona pandemic.
Colds, flu, gastrointestinal tract: all diseases that cause a number of absenteeism in offices at regular intervals.
However, since the beginning of 2020, doctors and pharmacists have been observing that far fewer people than usual have themselves examined in practices for such ailments or seek help and advice in pharmacies.
In any case, the lockdown requirements of the federal government, which only provide for the most necessary errands and contacts, play a major role here
.
Visits to the doctor were and are expressly allowed even during lockdown times, but many people have refrained from doing so in recent months for fear of corona infection *.
Accordingly, fewer gastrointestinal diseases or colds were diagnosed.
But there is another factor that is responsible for reducing colds and other illnesses.
Corona AHA rules lead to fewer colds and gastrointestinal diseases
The AHA formula - also AHA rule - introduced to contain the corona pandemic has a positive effect on the risk of infection.
And not just with regard to Covid-19.
AHA stands for keeping your distance, observing hygiene and wearing a mask (mouth and nose cover) in everyday life.
Those who adhere to these rules make it harder for influenza and noroviruses, as well as bacteria and lice, to spread from person to person.
This is also noticeable in the healthcare sector.
"We are noticing the effects of the corona measures - colds, gastrointestinal diseases, but above all patients with lice infestation are decreasing," quoted ZDF Marlen Ludwig from the owl pharmacy in Taunusstein, Hesse.
Since the spring of 2020, the sale of drugs against such diseases has decreased noticeably.
“The effect of keeping your distance away from lice infestations is most evident.
Compared to the previous year (
editor's note: 2019
), the demand for lice products has decreased by almost two thirds, ”explains Ludwig.
According to ZDF, German pharmacies sold almost 25 percent fewer drugs for diarrhea in the first half of 2020 than in the first half of 2019.
On the part of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) it says in the flu report of January 19, 2021: “The contact-reducing measures are reflected in the activity of the acute respiratory diseases.
The ARE and ILI rates have been significantly below the previous year's values since week 36, 2020. “ARE denotes acute respiratory diseases and ILI flu infections.
Lice are also less common.
ZDF quotes Heinz Mehlhorn, professor emeritus for parasitology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf: “
Lice can only spread when people are in contact
” - in times of contact restrictions and closed daycare centers, this is rarely the case at the moment.
(jg) * Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen digital editorial network
.
More sources: https://www.infektionsschutz.de/coronavirus/alltag-in-zeiten-von-corona.html
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