"When, after five days of treatment at home I suffocation and sisters took me to hospital where doctors said:" NOW in the resuscitation! "
A resident of Transcarpathia, which attempt to treat the infection and earned pneumonia, fortunately, managed to save. Recently from the intensive care the woman was transferred to the pulmonology
Jaroslav Galasy "FACTS" (Uzhgorod)
One of the most severe complications of the current flu epidemic - is a rapidly developing pneumonia, which in the case of late delivery of skilled medical care may lead to death. Treatment of pneumonia takes an average of twenty days, so find a patient who already had the disease since the epidemic began, it was not easy.
Valeria Dolgosh from the village Storozhnitsa near Uzhgorod is still in hospital but her condition today is described as satisfactory. On Tuesday, the patient was transferred from the intensive care department of Uzhhorod Central City Clinical Hospital (TSGKB) in pulmonary. The woman, who last week brought back into intensive care at the wheelchair and which practically no longer able to breathe independently, from our experience how dangerous the disease can be treated at home.
"Breast oppressed, and I really got scared"
Valeria Mikhailovna husky voice, from time to time she begins to cough. It is evident that the words given to her easily.
- I have been a dispatcher at the railway station, - says Valery Dolgosh. - Three days at work, three - at home. A station is a large number of people, that's picked up from someone a virus. My last shift ended on Sunday 25 October, and I felt like no matter how just returned home. Night the temperature rose sharply - up to 40, then 40.3 and 41 degrees. I took aspirin and other anti-fever pills, which managed to reduce fever, but sleep was impossible. On Monday morning, seemed to become a little easier, and then came back shivering and fever up to 39 degrees. Trips her pills, but they only helped for a while, a maximum of two to three hours. From Tuesday promulgated suppressing anti syrups, such as Coldrex and koldflyu. They brought some relief, but also only for a while. And then it got really bad. Thursday all day, I still somehow persisted, even tried to cook something in the kitchen. And when the evening lay in bed, felt that not enough air. Turned from side to side, trying to find a comfortable position, but it did not help - chest pressed, I was choking, I really got scared.
She called her sister, said that to me really bad, and she took me to the regional infectious diseases hospital. Having X-rays and looking at pictures, the doctor rebuked me: "Why so long pulled? Disease has been neglected." But explain something I was not able to. Of the infectious diseases hospital I was taken to city hospital admitting department (it is located next door), where a physician after examination said: "Immediately in the intensive care unit. While I was taken in a wheelchair on the eighth floor, I could hardly breathe.
Valeria Mikhailovna again clears his throat and continues:
- Night on Thursday and the next day proved to be the most difficult. Breathe easier, because I put an oxygen mask, but always kept a high temperature, which is quite emaciated me. For a long time I was between sleeping and waking, and then started raving: I had visions of relatives - living and dead. It was very hard. But then the treatment has the result, and it was a relief. Only his head continued to ache badly. It seemed that I had absolutely no strength left.
I am very grateful to the doctors who were always nearby, watching every change in my body. Severe disease managed to win only because of their attention and professional actions ...
Since the beginning of his illness, I closely followed the news, saw how quickly the country spread flu epidemic and has repeatedly heard that in no case be engaged in self-medicate. And she did the opposite. You see, our people are not accustomed to, if something is sick, contact your doctor, do so only when it gets really bad. I never thought that the disease can develop so rapidly, that and reached out to resuscitation. Now tell my relatives and friends: "Do not take an example from me. Feel that something is wrong - immediately contact your doctor. It is better to be safe than to be in my situation ..."
"If any part of the world, even remote from the Ukraine, there are new strains of influenza, we also need to prepare for them"
- The patient was sent to intensive care because she had a pronounced inflammatory process, in which the body responded very hard, - said the head of the resuscitation unit Uzhgorod TSGKB Ivan Kalabiga. - The diagnosis was: acute right-sided middle and lower part pneumonia with respiratory failure. In the lungs, and other vital organs of the disease, fortunately, did not manage to catch, but the woman's condition was still serious.
What exactly caused Valerie Dolgosh pneumonia, we do not know. For laboratory research requires time, moreover, to compare blood on the day the patient and within a week of treatment. However, the course of the disease indicates that it most likely triggered the virus. The inflammatory process was particularly acute because the woman suffers from other chronic diseases.
Pneumonia affects the part of the lungs, which falls out of gas exchange, providing a breath. The body reacts to a high temperature, cough, respiratory failure. And this in turn causes other negative processes and complications, which, due to delays in treatment can cause death. Last week in Uzhgorod died of pneumonia 49-year-old man, who was involved in self-medicate at home and too late to a hospital. Our patient inflammation struck nearly two-thirds of the right lung. This is a lot, but nothing happened. Now female organism in the normal state, but it remains to be getting completely healthy in Pulmonology.
I want to say that seasonal viral diseases accompanied by and in the future will be accompanied by men. And if in some parts of the world, even remote from the Ukraine, there are new strains of influenza, under the present conditions of life, when the boundary is no longer under lock and key, to be ready, sooner or later, these diseases may arise among us. In the West, confronting epidemics through immunization. We have vaccinations to some extent compromised, but people should understand that other methods of protection for today no. Preventive vaccines for decades, have proven effective, so they can not refuse, it will lead to a much worse outcome. Another question that should probably pay more attention to quality and reliability of the vaccine ...
With regard to counter the current epidemic, then something fundamentally new, I will not say. To avoid contamination, be an elementary care of himself: she can not appear in crowded places, do not hesitate to use the gauze bandage, and when the first symptoms of the disease - not to engage in self-medicate, and to see a doctor ...
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