There is a great pressure of patients with respiratory, but also stomach viruses on family medicine departments in the health centers in Sarajevo Canton.
This year’s flu virus, according to Armana Šarkić, her spokesperson her HD Health KS is characterized by a long duration of symptoms, which exhausts patients.
There is still a vaccine
He adds that patients with dry coughs are declining, which was predominantly a month ago.
– The appeal of family medicine doctors is that at least two days from some symptoms, the patient remains at home, to immediately not coming to the family fault, is impossible to determine the clinical picture, whether it is a viral or bacterial infection, and On the other hand they make huge crowds in the ambulances and health centers. It should always be waited for two, three days, then go to the doctor except in a situation suddenly high temperatures, pain, vomiting, shedding – clarifies the hinge.
He adds that during January, when he was a break, school medicine was more reluctant. From the beginning of February and these departments are large crowds.
– Contacts are wide and numerous on a daily basis among the pediatric and school population, so respiratory infections spread rapidly. That is the reason for the great crowds. These are mainly respiratory infections, sore throat, cough, which follows elevated temperature – leads the hinges.
From the Health Center, they say that about 1,000 dose of flu vaccine and that it is not yet late to vaccinate yourself with the condition that a person must be completely healthy.
– The best vaccination period is from October to New Year, because it is known that the organism needs two to three weeks to create antibodies. We are in a spade seasonal flu, but it is a recommendation of an epidemiologist that, if you are healthy, it is not too late and now to receive the vaccine – says Šarkić.
And doctors at the Institute for Emergency Medical Assistance, the KS these days have an increased number of patients with respiratory infections.
Dr. Mirsad Hošić, an urgent medicine specialist, says about 450 patients during the weekend.
– Our patients with an elevated temperature, sore, gems, joints in the joints and muscles, is very much patients with cough. As for treatment, in the first three to five days, therapy is symptomatic, if the temperature is prolonged, the patient may address the laboratory tests, RTG lungs and whether the second except supportive therapy should be included. We also have patients with inflammation of the lungs, which is not strange in this area as we know what kind of air is breathing – explains Hošić.
Polluted air
It says that in cases of diseases are included with antipyretics, anagles, and an increase in the intake of fruit and vegetables rich in vitamin C and hot drinks in the form of vegetable soups and herbal teas.
– If after five days, the temperature is not lowered should go to the doctor, especially if they are older, chronic patients, whose body is already immunocompromised – adds a doctor.
In the emergency room, during the past weekend, they had an increased number of cardiological patients (chronic bronchitis, asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease, angina pectoris), writes Factor.
– In the past two months, the quality of air in the KS is at a very low level that creates problems with older and chronic patients. Crowds, but no one who came to the emergency room was not returned, although he had noticed him all that when I felt symptoms of the disease first to go to his family doctor, especially if it is in juran for hours and during the day – said is Hošić.
