How to treat your cough - Corona Virus

HOW CAN YOU TREAT YOUR COUGH WHEN YOU GET THE COVID-19?

In this video we give you some advise on what you can do at home if you have a lung issue. With the Corona Virus doing its round we thought it will be helpful to share a few tips and techniques on what you can do at home to treat yourself.

Symptoms of the Corona virus include:
1) Shortness of Breath
2) Dry Cough
3) Fever

Some patients do get more serious and they can develop a severe pneumonia. So, if you can treat yourself at home and use these tips it might just help you from becoming worse.

Tip 1: Drink enough water. If you take enough fluids in it will help the phlegm in your lung to become more loose so that you can cough it out easier.

Tip 2 : Use a Humidifier in your room. South Africa has very dry air. So to use a humidifier will put moisture back into the air and this will help you to breathe easier.

Tip 3: Use a nebuliser. You use normal saline or hypertonic saline this will help to loosen up the phlegm. You can get this at your local pharmacy. You can also call your doctor to get some medication that will open up the chest wall. Please take note that the WHO recommends not to use a nebuliser if there are any other family members or healthcare personal in the same room as the patients. This is to avoid transmission of the virus.

Tip 4: Use Vicks. You can put it on your chest or at the back of you back. This will help you to breathe easier. If you don't have a nebuliser you can dissolve the Vicks into the boiling water and then you can breath in the steam. Please just make sure that you don't burn yourself. This will definitely help you breathe easier.

Tip 5: Deep Breathing Exercises. In our next video we will go into more detail on how to do these exercises. Please make sure you watch it it is very good information.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT ACCORDING TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) COVID 19 TRANSMITS THROUGH DROPLETS IN THE AIR. SO, PLEASE TAKE EXTRA PRECAUTIONS AT HOME WHEN YOU TREAT YOUR COUGH DURING COVID 19, TO ENSURE THAT YOU DON’T INFECT OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS. TREAT YOURSELF IN A SEPARATE ROOM WERE OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS DOES NOT GET TO, TO AVOID TRANSMISSION

Please be safe. Wash your hands and stay at home. This is the only way we will be able to fight this virus.

The Just Physio Team
012 361 8387
www.justphysio.co.za