What should I do if I get the flu?
Mild influenza often mimics the common cold, but fever and constitutional symptoms are more pronounced. In patients with no complications, the course of the disease is self-limited, and the body temperature gradually subsides after 3 to 4 days of onset, and the systemic symptoms improve, but it usually takes 1 to 2 weeks for cough and physical strength to recover.
Basic principles. Early detection, early diagnosis, early **;Avoid blind or inappropriate use of antimicrobials;Rational use of antipyretic drugs;Syndrome differentiation using traditional Chinese medicine.
Symptomatic**. People with high fever may be given physical cooling or antipyretic drugs. Patients with severe cough and expectorant should be given cough and expectorant drugs. Oxygen therapy is given in an appropriate manner depending on the degree of hypoxia.
Antiviral**.
Patients with severe disease or risk factors for severe influenza should be given anti-influenza virus** as soon as possible without waiting for viral test results. Antiviral** within 48 hours of onset reduces complications, mortality, and hospital stayPatients with severe disease who have been present for more than 48 hours can still benefit from antiviral**.
How to choose an antiviral drug?
Anti-influenza virus drugs are divided into neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs), hemagglutinin inhibitors, and RNA polymerase inhibitors, which have high sensitivity and good safety against the currently circulating influenza A and B viruses. Available clinical study data do not support combination administration or double doses** in patients with seasonal influenza.
At present, the NAIs that have been marketed in China include oseltamivir, zanamivir and peramivir sodium chloride injection, hemagglutinin inhibitors mainly include arbidol and RNA polymerase inhibitors mabaloxavir and favipiravir.