Prevent Happy Hypoxia in COVID-19 Patients, Do You Need to Have a Pulse Oximeter?

Menaldi said, rather than having a pulse oximeter, the most important thing is having a desire to learn and being able to detect symptoms of the disease earlier.

“More calls to our own desire to detect earlier too,” he added.

On the same occasion, Menaldi also asked COVID-19 patients who even though they feel without symptoms or have mild symptoms but have a persistent cough, to go to the hospital to prevent happy hypoxia.

He explained that happy hypoxia is a sign of lung involvement in the COVID-19 case.

“So if the COVID is still in the upper respiratory tract, at the top like the nose or throat, it is not easy to have happy hypoxia, but if it involves the lungs, there is a possibility that it will be involved,” said Menaldi.

“So for people who have OTG (people without symptoms) but the cough persists, they start thinking and move to the hospital to ask if my lungs are involved,” he said.

In line with Menaldi, pulmonary specialist Erlina Burhan also said that if a COVID-19 patient who is independently isolated experiences symptoms such as weakness but not tightness, it is better to immediately be taken to the hospital.

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