How to raise immunity if a tridemia “attacked” a person

Winter this year was difficult, from a medical point of view. As the doctors say, now three misfortunes have “fell” on our citizens at the same time – the flu epidemic, SARS and a new relative of the coronavirus – the Kraken. Doctors and epidemiologists spoke about how to deal with them all at the round table “Tridemia. What to do in order not to pay off “immune debt” in winter?

First, what is a “tridemic”? This is a pandemic in which three viruses compete for a “place in the sun” at once. Moreover, the most vulnerable categories of all three this time were children and adolescents. Secondly, how to deal with them? According to the immunologist-pulmonologist, pediatrician MMA them. Sechenov Natalia Lozko, a new trend has appeared in large cities: parents of schoolchildren are ready to leave healthy children at home in order to wait out the surge in SARS at school and not expose the family to the risk of contracting the virus.

According to a survey conducted by the non-profit organization “Culture of Health”, 25% of respondents “resort” to this method this season. Another 31% of respondents said that they have not yet used this opportunity, but do not exclude that such an option is possible in the future. Almost 27% of respondents to the question: “Have you started to visit doctors less this epidemiological season?” answered in the affirmative, because they get sick less. 34% of respondents use the services of doctors with the same activity. But as for the attentive attitude of patients to drugs that support immunity, 44% of respondents do not pay any attention to what is written in the annotation. Another 33% percent of respondents answered that they “prefer it to be.”

And yet, how to raise or maintain immunity? Firstly, what is well known is to go in for sports, it is enough to sleep, temper, walk in the air, but in no case, do not overcool. Second, take precautions. For example, pharmacologist Svetlana Tamashova recommends following very simple rules: before leaving home for work or shopping, but no more than two or three times a day, protect the nasal mucosa with any moisturizing spray. The mucous membrane of the throat is well protected by water, so do not forget to drink it. Aromatherapy is also very useful: two or three drops of essential oils, such as thyme or thyme, can be dropped on a handkerchief or the back of the hand, and inhaled regularly. It is recommended to take multivitamin complexes, it is only important that these are not therapeutic dosages, but “daily”.

“Only by these measures, the risk of getting SARS can be reduced three times,” says Svetlana Tamashova.

The third way to preserve and protect immunity is to take immunomodulators. However, here you can not do without the advice of doctors.

“People who take immunomodulators on their own, and even more so give such drugs to children, do not always realize that among the risks of taking such drugs is the development of allergic autoimmune diseases and a number of other equally serious consequences,” says Natalya Lozko. – Although we live in an age of high technology, we are still very vulnerable to the microworld: literally tiny viruses can cause severe damage to the body. That is why in a situation with viruses you can not self-medicate. And in order to avoid all sorts of complications, at the first symptoms of the disease, it is necessary to consult a doctor for qualified medical help.

Another serious misfortune that has fallen on the heads of our people is the post-COVID syndrome. According to otorhinolaryngologist Mikhail Svistushkin, after covid, many people began to lose their hair, various skin disorders appear, chest pains appear, cough or a slight fever persists for a long time.

– This condition is called “long-covid” or “post-covid syndrome”, because it lasts more than 12 weeks after the illness. Post-covid syndrome was even included in the International Classification of Diseases as an independent disease, says Mikhail Svistushkin. – Against the background of such a syndrome, acute respiratory diseases are activated faster in children and adults, people begin to get sick with colds more often. And here you can’t do without “training” immunity.

Mona Platonov.