Coronavirus: from fever to controls, what to do if there are suspicious symptoms

Scenes of daily life. Beyond the anxiety abstract that which derives from reading the various newsletters of the infection, what to do in concrete terms if it were to happen to us or our children to experience symptoms that make us suspect to have contracted the Coronavirus? the Pier Luigi Bartoletti , vice-national secretary of Fimmg, responds to adults and Rocco Russo , member of the Italian Society of Pediatrics and head of the operative Unit maternal-child at the Asl of Benevento, for the children. Cough and cold, influenza or coronavirus? the Pierluigi Bartoletti : “the first thing you should check if in the last 15-20 days we have been in contact with someone who is from the red areas or the yellow ones. In the negative case, there is nothing to worry about because in all likelihood it is just the flu or allergy symptoms. If, instead, the contact was there, but the person beyond the symptoms you feel well, there is no reason to be alarmed. We must, however, alert the physician who will make a clinical evaluation by asking questions that serve to better frame the symptoms. If deemed appropriate, the doctor reports the case to the Service of hygiene and health of the Asl, which will evaluate together with the regional centre if and when you do the swab. On the basis of the severity of the symptoms, are the dates of the signs, the behavioural, and in suspicious cases it is recommended to stay home until it is done the buffer”.