People with bronchial asthma do not get covid much more often than others.
But if they have poor control over their asthma, then it will be much more difficult to transfer covid.
Many asthmatics fear that their basic drugs will undermine the immune system and provoke the rapid development of covid. In fact, no serious evidence of this has yet been obtained.
On the contrary, the more carefully people with bronchial asthma control their asthma, the less frequent exacerbations occur, and the better they tolerate covid.
There is a limitation. Just as in all other areas of medicine, situations that can provoke the spread of the virus are excluded here, if possible.
This is because asthmatics usually need to inhale their drugs. Metered dose inhalers or nebulizers are used as delivery vehicles.
Metered-dose inhalers eject the drug very quickly. In order to use metered-dose inhalers, you need to follow certain rules, synchronize inhalation with exhalation in a cunning way and think more or less well.
If a person is seriously ill, then he often does not have the strength to take a deep breath or follow other rules. In such a situation, they love to use nebulizers. There, the drug is sprayed slowly. All this time, you can just breathe and do not need to strain your head.
But the nebulizer will disperse a fine aerosol in the room, which may contain a virus, for a long time.
If you paid attention, during this epidemic, the doctors of intensive care and other intensive care were at risk the most.
Other health workers will get the virus as part of large and clumsy drops, but anesthesiologists, putting different tubes in people, receive fountains of a small and very dangerous aerosol.
This aerosol makes the virus look like smallpox virus. He can fly long distances and climb under the mask. So the intensives wear heavy duty respirators, transparent shields and all that.
The same story happens with nebulizers. They are designed to produce a very fine aerosol that penetrates deep into the lungs.
If an asthmatic patient with covid coughs up a virus inside the nebulizer, then this virus is sprayed along with the solution. Part of this aerosol is inhaled by the asthmatic, and part of it flies into the room. It is dangerous for others.
It turns out that for patients with bronchial asthma, there are two iron rules for the duration of the epidemic:
- Strictly follow the instructions of the pulmonologist;
- If possible, do not use nebulizers.
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