I have been in quarantine for nearly 12 days for COVID-19. Why is my recovery very slow?

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Welcome to icliniq.com. I understand your concern. According to your statement, you are suffering from a cough that is dry in nature and you are a COVID-19 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) patient. You have a past history of mild asthma and anxiety. Your treatment depends on severity. If Albuterol does not help you, you can take a Corticosteroid inhaler for cough. You should monitor your oxygen saturation rate by pulse oximetry. It will help to determine whether you need oxygen support or not. As you are a COVID-19 patient, be isolated from your family and friend for atleast 14 days. Gargle your mouth with salt mixed with lukewarm water three to four times a day. Maintain a temperature chart strictly. Please provide a detailed history regarding your current symptoms and so I can help you better.

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Welcome back to icliniq.com. As you suffer from cough in the morning and evening, you can take an inhaler every six hours or eight hours twice daily. You can use Albuterol based on the severity. You are a patient with mild asthma. But medication is not required for controlling asthma status in your life except for COVID-19 positive patients. Dry cough is the primary symptom of COVID-19. Then it becomes intractable causing breathlessness in patients. Finally, the patient develops life-threatening atypical pneumonia. COVID-19 usually attacks the respiratory system first and then other systems. You need to take Albuterol for preventing the development of respiratory distress. As your oxygen saturation is 98 percent, this is a piece of good news for your recovery from COVID-19. For cough and nasal congestion, you can take Montelukast with or without a Corticosteroid inhaler.

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Welcome back to icliniq.com. You can use Flonaspray twice daily for having immediate relief from nasal congestion and you can take Montelukast with Allegra. You seem to have post-viral asthenia. Fatigue or post-viral asthenia is very common when a person is infected with a major viral infection like COVID-19. It may last for few weeks to few months. So you always have weakness and fatigue in the body and it subsides with the passage of time. Albuterol is a short-acting bronchodilator and it lasts for four hours. You can use a Seretide inhaler twice daily. It is a combination of long-acting bronchodilator Salmeterol and Fluticasone. It will give you a long time of relief.

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Welcome back to icliniq.com. Continue taking medications along with your current medications. You need to do a chest X-ray to detect the respiratory abnormalities. I think that you will be recovered fully within 15 to 30 days.

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Welcome back to iclniq.com. You do not need to admit yourself to the hospital as you do not have a fever and importantly, your oxygen saturation is 98 percent. Your weakness and cough will get subside soon.

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Welcome back to icliniq.com. Symbicort 160/4.5 (Budesonide and Formoterol dihydrate) is a combination of steroid and long-acting bronchodilator. It is used to prevent bronchospasm in asthma patients. But you need to gargle after using it as it can cause oral thrush later on.

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Welcome back to icliniq.com. Priming means first time. Using a new inhaler will help you from bronchospasm and controls your cough within a short time.

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Welcome back to icliniq.com. You should shake the canister for mixing the solutions well and so you get a proper dosage of solutions. As you have not shaken it for the first time, it is fine. For the next time, you should shake well before using and gargle after using it for preventing the development of oral thrush.

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