Here are 7 times you should go to the emergency room if you have the flu or covid, according to emergency room doctors

The Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine (SEMES) has issued a series of recommendations so that people who suspect they have contracted the flu know when they should go to the emergency department and when not.

First of all, they collect flu symptoms to determine whether we have contracted the disease and its severity. Flu symptoms come on suddenly and may include: muscle pain, chills, dry cough (without sputum), fever, headache, sore throat, vomiting and diarrhea.

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Treatment consists of restdrink fluids and stay hydratedavoid drinking alcohol and tobacco, take medication influenza-specific (medicines to reduce fever, headache…). Also remember that the flu is caused by a virus, so antibiotics do not improve symptoms nor do they speed up healing.

Complications from influenza are uncommon and occur mainly in elderly patients or people with chronic diseases. To avoid overcrowding of health centers and hospitals, SEMES recommends that patients suffer from influenza and COVID. “Don’t go to the emergency room unless absolutely necessary.” and they advocate “self-care” in case it can be managed at home in people without pre-existing conditions.

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From a community of doctors, they detail seven situations in which you should go to the hospital:

1. If the patient vulnerable populationfor example, infants, elderly people or people with special pathologies.
2. If you have a feeling shortness of breath, suffocation or difficulty breathing normally.
3. If you have it chest pain with a very strong cough.
4. If they have vomiting or diarrhea it can’t be stopped.
5. Yes it is changes in consciousness.
6. If you have it high fever for 48 hours it does not go away with conventional treatment.
7. Lee belongs to a sensitive group for example, pregnant women, people with weakened immune systems, people with cardiovascular disease, chronic diseases or diabetes.

Last Friday, the Valencian Community, Catalonia, the region of Murcia and Aragon decided to reintroduce the measure, although in Aragon it had until now only been mandatory for health workers. This Monday, at a meeting of the Ministry of Health and Autonomous Communities in the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, the Minister of Health Monica García will ask communities that have not yet implemented this measure to return to the mandatory nature of the mask in health centers and pharmacies, in order to avoid the transmission of influenza viruses that have infested the departments emergency and primary care services from the first days of the Christmas holidays.