Hyderabad: Medical experts believe that self-medication can be extremely dangerous to treat COVID-19.
Increasing deaths in the second wave of the Corona epidemic, experts are apprehensive that most people are resorting to self-medication rather than going to a doctor or hospital.
Even in cases of fever, cough, colds and body aches, patients are not going to the doctors and resorting to medicines that can spread the covid virus among others besides being dangerous.
“Self-medication also has harmful side-effects, such as digestive problems seen in patients who take antibiotics or steroids,” said Dr. Rahul Aggarwal,consultant for internal medicine at Medicover Hospitals.
Dr. Aggarwal said that fever for five days is a clear sign of coronavirus and in such a case a decent infection can spread to the lungs.
There are also some patients who are worried about the positive result of their test after 14 days of treatment.
Experts believe that if the test comes back positive then there is no need to panic,this may be due to residual RNA in the nasal mucosa or may also be a false positive.
However, medication is not required in such a case as the probability of infection after two weeks is very less. Testing and re-testing is a sheer waste of resources.
