Mild Symptoms of Omicron Flu and Cough, Can You Fight Using Over-the-counter Medicines?

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Even if it’s mild, generally the symptoms of Covid-19 are variants Omicron still not easily removed with over-the-counter drugs with a green circle packaging mark or popularly called over-the-counter drugs. The symptoms in question are cough, runny nose and itching in the throat.

“Currently there is no specific therapy for treatment Covid-19 type Omicron, “kata dan internal medicine specialist at the Sari Asih Hospital Karawaci Tangerang, Khalid Mohammad Shidiq, as quoted from Between, Monday January 31, 2022.

According to Khalid, Vaccination is still the main treatment in the context of preventing any variant of Covid-19 infection. Apart from staying follow health protocols. This is especially helpful in protecting some people who are vulnerable groups because they are old or have comorbidities.

Khalid added that the symptoms flu due to infection with the SARS-CoV-2 corona virus, the Omicron variant has a different treatment from the flu due to the usual corona virus. Moreover, he added, transmission is also much faster.

“So we must be disciplined in implementing health protocols and reminding each other because the transmission of this virus is so fast and if there are symptoms, immediately check with the nearest health facility,” he said.

Contacted separately, the epidemiologist who is also a clinical pathologist from Sebelas Maret University, Tonang Dwi Ardyanto, welcomes any patient who wants to use over-the-counter drugs according to the instructions. Tonang emphasized that therapy for viral infections is basically symptomatic, aka according to the symptoms that arise.

This means, he said, “If you have consumed one package (an average of 4 for 24 hours use) it turns out that there is no improvement, you should immediately go to a doctor or health facility for further assistance using stronger drugs.”

In the conversation via WhatsApp, Tuesday, February 1, 2022, Tonang explained the allegation that the general symptoms of Omicron were milder and why vaccination was still very much needed. This is because Omicron was found to develop 70 times faster than Delta in the throat airways, but 10 times slower in the lungs.

“It is suspected that there is a role for antibodies resulting from previous infections and vaccinations so that they are slower in the lungs,” he said, adding, “So this underlies the severity of Omicron in general is lower than Covid-19 infection. varian Delta.”

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