The Kauvery"smart" guide to

"Fighting COVID
with Confidence"
Empower yourself with the
knowledge and confidence
to tide over the present
COVID crisis.

The "smart" milestones to

negotiate this path are
prevention, protection,
vaccination, recognition,
response and recovery.

The following pages contain

very useful tips that can
help protect you and your
loved ones.
1. Prevention
• Prevention works. It is the
smartest thing to do
• Cough and conversations at
close quarters spray you with
respiratory and salivary
secretions that can be packed
with the virus
• When a crowd is present, virus is
also present and spreads easily
• Even easier, in a private space
with poor ventilation
• Prevention is easy. Keep your
mask on, and keep your distance
2. Protection
• Plan your protection - anywhere
you work with people
• Keep distance, wear mask
properly, sanitize. It works.
Keeps you safe

SOCIAL DISTANCING
2 METERS
3. Vaccination
• Avoid the virus, not the vaccine
• Ignore the chatter about
variants
• Be smart. Take the vaccine on
offer. It works
• It prevents and protects from
severe, critical or fatal disease
4. Recognition
• If you slipped up on prevention,
time to be smart about an
infection you caught
• Recognize the symptoms - fever,
sore throat, loss of smell and taste,
body ache, fatigue, & diarrhoea
• Be smart. Get tested, and isolate
yourself. Don’t pass it on
• Rest for seven to ten days, take
fluids and foods that suit you. Take
cough syrup and paracetamol that
works for you
• Chances are good
that it will pass
5. Response
• Respond to these flags that flash
"alert!"
• High and prolonged fever, severe
body ache, severe fatigue &
breathlessness
• Use your pulse oxymeter. If the
level remains at 93, and drops after
a 6 minute walk, talk to your nurse
or doctor
• They will guide you about home
treatment with oxygen or help you
find a hospital bed
• It is smart not to treat yourself
with antibiotics and unproven
drugs. Both are very likely to make
you sicker
6. Recovery
• It is smart to recover at home
• But some will need to be at
a hospital
• You may have heard of Cortisones
(steroids) and blood thinners
that work
• Your hospital will hold your hands
and take you through it
• COVID can be a slow disease.
Recovery can be slow, at hospital
and later
• Let your doctor talk, and walk you
through it, so that you
can shut the door
on COVID
 Issued in
public interest by

www.kauveryhospital.com

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