Important information to keep you safe while isolating at home - Suspected coronavirus (COVID-19)
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Suspected coronavirus (COVID-19): Important information to keep you safe while isolating at home This leaflet is for patients with suspected coronavirus who have not been admitted to hospital and will be isolating at home.
Recovering from COVID-19
Arranging your
Staying at home COVID-19 test
Mild COVID-19 Supporting your
• You may have coronavirus. You don’t • Anyone in England with
need to be in hospital at this time, but COVID-19 symptoms can have a symptoms recovery
it is important that you self-isolate. test. These are common symptoms. • Most people recover from
• If your condition worsens please • You can apply for a test online at You may not have all of these but coronavirus within three weeks.
follow the information below and seek gov.uk, or call the Coronavirus still feel unwell. • You may have mild symptoms and
medical advice quickly. Testing Contact Centre free on feel unwell for a short time before
• You should assume you have 119 from 7am to 11pm. • High temperature: you feel hot to slowly starting to feel better.
COVID-19 until a test shows you do • You may be able to choose touch on your chest and back. If • To help you recover, you may wish
not. between driving to a testing site or you have access to a thermometer, to try:
• Until then, you must self-isolate for getting a home test kit. a reading of 38 degrees celsius or - Rest
at least 10 days along with anyone • Do not wait – wherever possible higher - Paracetamol or ibuprofen
in your household as they may have the test should be done withinfive • Cough - Regular fluids
coronavirus without showing any days of showing symptoms. • Muscle ache or tiredness • Coronavirus can
symptoms. • Mild chest pain leave some people
• For more information about self- • Dizziness or headache feeling unwell for
isolation and self-care visit: nhs.uk/ • Loss of taste or sense of smell a long time - this is
conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ • Diarrhoea and vomiting known as long
self-isolation-and-treatment/when-to- • Rashes. COVID.
self-isolate-and-what-to-do/gov.uk/
coronavirus.
• If you need help from a volunteer to
deliver food or medicines visit https://
volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.org.
uk/nhs-volunteer-responders.
Get family and friends to check in with you
It is important that someone checks on you regularly. If you are isolating from
other people in the same house, talking on your phone or through a doorway
could be better than text messages. It will help them hear if you are becoming
more breathless or unwell. Even if you live alone, you should arrange to contact
someone regularly. Ask them to ring you, if you don’t make contact as planned,
ask them to seek help. If you are still unwell after three weeks, please For further support on managing your symptoms at home and advice on
contact your GP. your recovery visit: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-
isolation-and-treatment and www.yourcovidrecovery.nhs.ukWhen and where to seek medical advice
Contact NHS 111 Attend your nearest A&E
If you experience any of within an hour or call 999
the following COVID-19
A minority of people with COVID-19
symptoms, you should contact
will suffer more severe symptoms.
111 as soon as possible.
You should attend A&E as quickly as
• Feeling breathless or difficulty possible or call 999 immediately if
breathing, especially when you experience the following:
standing up or moving
• Severe muscle aches or • Your blood oxygen levels are
tiredness 92% or less (retake your reading
• Shakes or shivers immediately first)
• If you use a pulse oximeter, • You are unable to complete short
your blood oxygen level is sentences when at rest due to
94% or 93% or continues breathlessness
to be lower than your usual • Your breathing gets worse suddenly.
reading where your normal
oxygen saturation is below OR if you develop these more
95% (re-take a reading within general signs of serious illness:
an hour first) • Cough up blood
• Sense that something is • Feel cold and sweaty with pale
wrong (general weakness, or blotchy skin
severe tiredness, loss of • Collapse or faint
appetite, peeing much less • Develop a rash that doesn’t fade
than normal, unable to care when you roll a glass over it
for yourself – simple tasks • Become agitated, confused or very
like washing and dressing or drowsy
making food). • Stopped passing urine or are
passing urine much less than usual.
You can access 111:
You should tell the operator you
• Online at www.111.nhs.uk
may have coronavirus and if you
• By phone 111
have a pulse oximeter give your
• Via your GP.
oxygen saturation reading. These
You should tell the operator symptoms require urgent medical
you may have coronavirus. attention.• Loss of taste or sense of smell al
• Dizziness or headache feeling unwell for • Diarrhoea and vomiting known as long • Diarrhoea and vomiting kn
• Loss of taste or sense of smell a long time - this is • Rashes. COVID.
• Diarrhoea and vomiting • Rashes. CO
known as long
• Rashes. COVID.
COVID-19 Diary
The impact and experience of the coronavirus Name: Date of Birth: Age:
(COVID-19) outbreak has been different for NHS Number if Known: Do you live alone? Carer at Home?
everyone, as has how we have reacted, but there’s
no doubt it’s been a really difficult time for us all. Date Time Oxygen Heart Rate Breathing: Better
For further support on managing your symptoms at home and advice on Level % Same, Worse
For further support on managing your symptoms at home and advice on
your recovery visit: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self- For further
Date Time Oxygen Level % Heart Rate Breathing: Better, support
Same , Worse on managing
Breathing: Better, your sym
That’s why it’s so important to do what
isolation-and-treatment and www.yourcovidrecovery.nhs.uk
we can to look
your recovery visit: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-
Same , Worse your recovery visit: www.nhs.uk/conditio
after our mental health and wellbeing – now more isolation-and-treatment
than and www.yourcovidrecovery.nhs.uk
isolation-and-treatment and www.you
ever – and to reach out if you need support.
Across mid and south Essex you can access support
via local IAPT services (Improving Access to
Psychological Services). Support can be carried
out virtually face to face, over the phone, through
webinars or guided self-help.
Visit your local service using the links below:
Basildon and Brentwood
basildonandbrentwoodccg.nhs.uk/your-health/mental-health-services
Mid Essex (Braintree, Chelmsford and Maldon)
midessexccg.nhs.uk/livewell/mentalhealth
South East Essex (Castle Point, Rochford and Southend)
www.therapyforyou.co.uk/
Thurrock
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