Thursday, March 19, 2020

CẢM GIÁC CỦA MỘT BÁC SĨ NGƯỜI ANH KHI BỊ NHIỄM COVID-19

Fr:Huu Dinh Nguyen*Kham Quach*Thien Le* Hoa Quach
Nữ bác sĩ gốc Anh 60 tuổi mô tả cảm giác thực sự khi bị nhiễm Covid-19
 Cổ họng như bị dao cứa,ho,sốt hoành hành… là những gì mà nữ bác sĩ 60 tuổi này đã chịu đựng trong 1 tuần đối phó với virus corona.
Các trường hợp nhiễm Covid-19 ở Anh đang tăng lên rất nhanh, thúc đẩy chính phủ nước này thực hiện bước đi quyết liệt trong việc chống lại sự lây lan của virus corona chủng mới.
Tiến sĩ Clare Gerada, 60 tuổi, là bác sĩ gia đình ở Lambeth, Nam Luân Đôn và cựu chủ tịch của Đại học GP Hoàng Gia đã xét nghiệm dương tính với virus corona vào tuần trước. Gần đây, bà đã mô tả chi tiết những gì đã trải qua khi nhiễm Covid-19, và cảm giác khi virus phát triển trong cơ thể.
Tiến sĩ Clare Gerada chia sẻ: "Ban đầu, tôi nghĩ đây chỉ là cảm lạnh do đi lại quá nhiều. 3 ngày trước tôi đã bay từ New York trở về, nơi tôi đang tham dự một hội nghị về bệnh tâm thần bên đó".
Khi bà Clare Gerada vừa rời khỏi, New York đã tuyên bố tình trạng khẩn cấp đối với dịch Covid-19. 2 ngày sau, nữ bác sĩ bắt đầu có triệu chứng mệt mỏi, ho khan. Ban đầu những triệu chứng ho còn ít nên bà Clare Gerada chủ quan, không nghĩ mình đã bị nhiễm bệnh.
Nhưng ngay ngày hôm sau, họng của bà bắt đầu đau đớn khủng khiếp, cơn đau được nữ bác sĩ mô tả là như bị "dao cứa".
"Tôi đã nghĩ đến việc mình bị nhiễm virus corona, họng tôi đau như bị dao cứa vào và thân nhiệt nhanh chóng tăng lên. Tôi biết đó là coronavirus, vì tôi thường không bao giờ bị bệnh và mùa cúm đã kết thúc", bà Clare cho biết.
                     

Tiến sĩ Clare Gerada, 60 tuổi, chia sẻ những gì mình đã trải qua khi xét nghiệm dương tính với virus corona
Các triệu chứng này rõ ràng và tiến triển nhanh hơn bệnh cảm cúm thông thường. Trong vài giờ sau khi có các triệu chứng đầu tiên, bà Clare Gerada mất cảm giác thèm ăn, trong miệng đắng ngắt khiến việc ăn uống trở nên khó chịu.
"Tôi ngã xuống giường và ngủ rất ngon vì bị sốt cao, nhưng tôi buộc mình phải uống nhiều nước và nước chanh. Tôi không thể uống trà vì miệng và cổ họng rất đau".
"Trong vài giờ, mũi tôi đầy vết loét và tôi tưởng tượng phía sau miệng mình cũng vậy. Tất cả những gì tôi muốn làm là ngủ; tôi đã xem xét việc ghi nhật ký video, nhưng ngay cả ý nghĩ về việc cầm điện thoại dường như cũng vô cùng cực nhọc".
Vào ngày 13/3, bệnh viện thông báo kết quả xét nghiệm của bà Clare Gerada bị dương tính với virus corona và cần phải tự cách ly tại nhà.
Trong quá trình tự cách ly, bà Clare Gerada đã uống paracetamol 8 giờ một lần. Chồng bà, ông Simon luôn chăm sóc vợ và cả 2 giữ khoảng cách an toàn với nhau. Trong nhiều ngày sau đó, tất cả những gì bà Clara có thể làm là ngủ.
"Anh ấy ngủ trong phòng dự phòng, tôi cho tất cả đồ sành sứ vào máy rửa chén và chúng tôi không dùng chung khăn tắm. Cho đến nay anh vẫn không bị ốm, mặc dù anh đã ở cùng tôi trong nhà. Một người hàng xóm đã giúp chăm sóc vật nuôi trong nhà", Clara tiết lộ.


Bác sĩ Gerada nhanh chóng bị đau họng khủng khiếp, nhiệt độ cao, run rẩy khi nhiễm virus corona chủng loại mớiKhi biết mình nhiễm Covid-19, Clare Gerada không hề hoảng sợ, nhưng so sánh với triệu chứng cảm cúm thông thường, virus corona là điều tồi tệ nhất mà bà từng trải qua.
Sau vài ngày uống thuốc và nghỉ ngơi, sức khỏe bà Clare Gerada dần ổn định. Những cơn đau đầu qua đi, thân nhiệt giảm,... miệng bắt đầu có cảm giác và có thể ăn uống trở lại.
Bà bắt đầu từ các món ăn dễ tiêu như súp gà, món hầm,... để tăng cường sức đề kháng. Khi cơ thể có sức lực trở lại, bà ở nhà cách ly thêm và tiến hành xét nghiệm xác nhận bản thân hoàn toàn chiến thắng virus Covid-19.
"Cơ thể 60 tuổi của tôi đã chiến đấu bảo vệ chống lại một loại virus mới. Tôi hy vọng những kinh nghiệm mà mình chia sẻ sẽ khiến mọi người bớt sợ hãi trước dịch bệnh và có thể giúp các bệnh nhân nhanh chóng phát hiện bệnh và điều trị kịp thời", bà Clara vui mừng nói.
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Former chair of Royal College of GPs who caught virus describes how it REALLY felt - from NHS 111 not replying, to a throat like knives, raging fever and how her '60-year-old body' defended itself... and won

By Dr Clare Gerada For The Daily Mail
As scores of Britons worry about contracting Covid-19, Dr Clare Gerada, 60, a GP in Lambeth, South London, and former chair of the Royal College of GPs who tested positive last week, describes what it's really like to have coronavirus.
Here she describes how rapidly she fell ill... 
Just a little out of sorts was how I felt at first. Initially, I thought I probably had a bit of jetlag.
Three days previously I had flown back from New York, where I'd been attending a psychiatry conference. 
As I left for home, New York declared a state of emergency because of the coronavirus and I felt relieved that I was escaping — I even went to the airport four hours earlier than I needed to, I was so eager to get home.
I didn't really know what 'a state of emergency' meant, and I was worried they might stop the flights.
I arrived back on a Sunday morning and went to work on Monday.
By Tuesday morning, though, as well as feeling rather tired, I had started with a new dry cough. Yet it was so mild to begin with, I barely gave it a second thought and put it down to the 'cabin cough' you sometimes get after a long flight.
Soon after that, though, I quickly developed a terrible sore throat. I know some people say you don't always get a sore throat with corona, but I did — it felt as if someone had put knives in my throat. And then the high temperature hit. I was feverish and got the shakes.
It was then I began to think: could it be coronavirus? I think I knew it was right away — but, strangely, I didn't feel scared, as I have no underlying health problems. I'm fit and I walk a lot.
I realised going to work was out of the question and I looked online for advice, as I'd been out of the country for six days and things had moved on rapidly in that time. Even I wasn't sure what the latest guidance was.
               The medical expert said that she had experienced a flu 15 years ago and it was nothing like this
 Dr Clare Gerada, 60, the former chair of the Royal College of GPs who tested positive last week, said she was just a little out of sorts at first
 

Dr Gerada had recently returned from New York, which has declared a state of emergency and closed usually thriving bars and restaurants (Times Square pictured empty)
Dr Gerada had recently returned from New York, which has declared a state of emergency and closed usually thriving bars and restaurants (Times Square pictured empty)
So I emailed 111. When I didn't hear back, I went to a testing pod at a local hospital.
At first they weren't going to send me for testing, as at that time the U.S. wasn't one of the countries this was advised for. But I explained that New York had declared a state of emergency and it was endemic there.
I knew it was the coronavirus, as I am never normally ill and the flu season was all but over — plus I'd had my jab.
And this was obviously more than a cold. Within hours of getting my first symptoms I wasn't able to eat. I went for two days with no food at all, as I had no appetite and also had a horrible metallic taste in my mouth which made food taste unpleasant. Eating felt like too much effort.
I collapsed into bed and had very fitful sleep because of my high temperature, but I forced myself to drink a lot — lemonade and bitter lemon. I couldn't drink tea because my mouth and throat were so sore.
Within hours my nose became full of ulcers and I imagine the back of my mouth was the same.
All I wanted to do was sleep — I'd considered keeping a video diary, but even the thought of a holding a phone seemed too much.
I took two paracetamol every eight hours.
I rang my husband, Simon, he came home from work and we kept a safe distance from each other. He slept in the spare room, I put all my crockery in the dishwasher and we didn't share towels. So far he hasn't been ill, though he has stayed in the house. A neighbour has been walking our dog.
Dr Gerada quickly developed a terrible sore throat, a high temperature, the shakes and felt feverish as she contracted coronavirus

Dr Gerada quickly developed a terrible sore throat, a high temperature, the shakes and felt feverish as she contracted coronavirus
New Yorkers wearing face masks are pictured in Times Square amid the city's outbreak. Dr Gerada initially put her symptoms down to jetlag
New Yorkers wearing face masks are pictured in Times Square amid the city's outbreak. Dr Gerada initially put her symptoms down to jetlag

I had flu 15 years ago and it was nothing like this, I was only ill for half a day. Having coronavirus was the worst I have ever felt. For the following few days, pretty much all I could do was sleep — I've never slept so much.
On Friday, the hospital rang with my test results: it was coronavirus. I wasn't scared, as by this point I was already starting to feel better; my temperature had come down, the cough had gone and I didn't need paracetamol any more.
I could eat again, too, though not a lot. I think I managed a bowl of chicken soup on Saturday, and by Sunday — a week since my return from New York — I was eating stews and soup brought round by neighbours.
Luckily, my husband is well and no one else I have come into contact with in London has fallen ill so far.
Yesterday I felt so much better. I just wanted to go out, so I stood on my doorstep with a mask on to get some air.
Most people have been very sympathetic but fascinated when I've told them I have coronavirus.
They have asked me lots of questions, as none of them seems to have met someone who's actually had it, as yet.
During my 35 years as a doctor I've seen some scary things, including a meningitis outbreak and cases of SARS. But corona is scarier in terms of its impact on society and the economy.
I was told I could stop self-isolating five days after I started to feel better, but I am staying at home all this week to make sure I don't infect anyone else. I will return to work next Monday.
Clearly, it is a grim disease with a higher mortality rate than ordinary flu, though I've heard of some people who experienced such a mild illness they didn't even realise they had it.
We are all fearful of it because we don't know what it's about. But for me it was just a seven-day illness, which I believe is most people's experience.
My 60-year-old body has fought a defence against a new virus. It has summoned my antibodies — if you took a sample of my blood now, it would be full of them — and protected my lungs, heart and kidneys against attack....
 I am through it, and all I have to show for it is a slight sore throat and some ulcers in my nose that haven't yet healed.
The vast majority of people who get this virus will win the battle against it. Those dying are the ones with underlying health conditions, where the respiratory problems get too much.
I've heard it said that this isn't much comfort to the people with underlying illnesses. But it is, because it means most of us can keep away from hospitals and leave the beds there for those who are really sick.
For the majority, coronavirus is bearable. As I hope my experience shows, it is not something most of us need fear.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8119033/Dr-Clare-Gerada-describes-experience-coronavirus.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490