Corona virus behaves in strange ways, it differentiates between people and treats them differently.For most of the population like around 80% of it, the symptoms of covid-19 are pretty normal like mild fever, difficulty in breathing, cold and cough etc. While in cases where people have prior history of illness like lung diseases, diabetes etc. or lie in the high-risk zones, they have to be extra cautious because the risk involved is a lot more.
The importance of caregivers
Because COVID-19 strangely affects some people, it becomes highly important to look out for ways to make sure that caregivers are properly trained and taken care of so that they could be of help. Following basic guidelines and health advisories given out by the World Health Organisation to maintain a suitable distance, wash your hands at regular intervals, cover your face with masks and try to stay indoors as much as possible. Public places are the ones that are most exposed to the virus so it’s always advisable to stay at home and avoid them as much as you can.
Alongside all this, there should be some effective measures in place to make sure that the caregivers and health care workers along with those who are at high risk of the contracting the infection are properly taken care of. Some of them are mentioned below.
Having a solid plan ‘B’
If you are the head caregiver of your family, it is very important that you try to manage everything properly and take proper precautions so that you are not affected by the virus. Especially when you are taking care of a high risk person, chances of getting infected increases so you have to take extra precautions to avoid that. And in case you feel like you can get affected, it’s always better to have a clear plan B, a contingency plan ready to make sure that the usual things are not affected. Having a trustworthy person by your side to whom you can easily give up the responsibilities too is a good plan.
Maintaining distance from loved ones
It’s one thing to suffer from the disease, but it’s even worse to watch your loved one’s going through all the pain and not being able to do anything. A similar problem was faced during the course of coronavirus spread when people had to be quarantined to make sure that the virus is not spreading out to more people. As much as the infected person had trouble getting through the phase, it was no different for their families and friends. The feeling of not being able to do something, just waiting for them to come back home so that they can finally be together again was depressing. The urge to visit their loved one’s in hospitals was too much but people had to control it so that the chain of the virus could be broken.
Be in loop with other health conditions
It was also very important that people who had prior health issues, history of some health condition should also remember those and take proper care for the same. In these unusual circumstances, people were so frenzied that they were forgetting about these other things which was also a cause. People were so troubled that all they could remember was the effect of covid-19 virus and were in that loop of getting away from it. So remembering other things, especially health conditions was also one of the problems.