Since Wednesday, nearly 600,000 people have learned of being infected with the coronavirus after being tested. A "tidal wave" of contaminations which may further increase in the coming days, as feared by health authorities. To prevent the virus from spreading further, to protect yourself and those around you, you must first of all isolate yourself. “As soon as we test positive, it means we are sick. We must therefore be withdrawn, because we are contaminating, ”recalls Benjamin Davido, infectious disease specialist and Covid-19 referent at Garches hospital (92). For him, as for Jean-Christophe Masseron, president of SOS Médecins, positive people must then alert their relatives, friends and colleagues.An approach carried out by your health insurance fund as soon as your "positive" result falls, "but if you can (in addition) warn your loved ones yourself, that's good too, says the president of SOS Médecins France.
As soon as you are positive and live with other people, it is also important to apply the barrier gestures that we know well at home: wash your hands with hydroalcoholic gel, wear a face mask. indoors, and, if possible, sleep and eat alone.
"It does not say that the whole home is contaminated if a person is" when these measures are respected, wishes to reassure Jean-Christophe Masseron.
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If a positive person suffers from certain symptoms of Covid-19 such as fever, body aches, headaches, or flu-like symptoms, care should be taken not to overuse paracetamol, which can be dangerous for the patient. liver if taken in too large doses. "For an adult it is 3 g per day, therefore 3 tablets of Doliprane 1000", explains Benjamin Davido. “I have already had people in hospital who arrived with acute, severe hepatitis, because they had mixed up a whole bunch of drugs. They were just as sick from Covid-19 as they were from the toxicity of the treatments ”. The infectious disease specialist, however, wants to be reassuring: "Most of the time the symptoms of Covid-19 disappear within five days, which is the sign of a favorable development. We must not panic!"