he said that bathroom solution smells
terrible
it's very strong and i was like no i
can't smell it at all it smells like
water
and then i realized i have no sense of
smell hey y'all welcome back i'm mama dr
jones a board certified ob gyn i
recently was diagnosed with covenanting
during the course of my illness i
realized
we're not doing a very good job of
telling people what to expect
during outpatient or non-hospitalized
treatment
and getting over kova 19 at home as i
sat there one night texting my friend i
thought
what are people who have this and don't
have these resources doing to get these
questions
answered because i know they must have
some of the same questions
that i have so today i'm going to be
telling you a little bit about my
experience with kova 19
and i'm going to be asking some
questions to dr jamie rutlin who is a
very good in real life friend of mine
hey everybody i'm cedric jamie rutland
i'm a pulmonary critical care physician
in southern california i do have my own
practice west coast salon
and i am on many social media platforms
as dr j
rutland he also has a youtube channel if
you'd like to check him out it is called
medicine deconstructed and i will put
the link in the description below
so i first noticed that i was having
some symptoms of congestion
and a headache and i really didn't think
a whole lot of it
i have bad allergies you probably have
seen on this channel sometimes i have
terrible
red nose and bags under my eyes because
my allergies get bad
often and i just didn't think anything
of it i got on a conference call for
association of healthcare social media
which is a 501c3 nonprofit that i
co-founded and i'm on the executive
board of and
dr jamie rutland who's going to be
answering some of my questions in a
minute was also on that call
i said you know i'm just not feeling
well it's allergies and he's like
you might have coveted and i was like i
don't i don't think it's coveted i don't
feel that
bad and he said i think you should
consider getting tested so
i was thinking about it after i got off
the phone and i was considering getting
tested but again we weren't going
anywhere i wasn't working in the next
few days so i just decided to kind of
let it play out
the next day i was cleaning our bathroom
and i have very significant asthma i've
been on
inhaled corticosteroids my whole life
it's much less than it used to be but
it's still significant i control it
really well because i know my triggers i
know it's exercise
induced i know it's cold induced and i
know it's volatile chemical induced so
if
i get in an enclosed space with volatile
chemicals like cleaning solutions
and i'm there for a long time it will
often trigger my asthma so i have to be
very careful about that so i was
cleaning the bathroom and it was with a
new cleaning solution that i've never
used and then i finished and i was like
i cannot breathe and i was you know
doing the whole trying to breathe thing
and my husband walked in and he said are
you okay
and i said i just i can't breathe i'm
having a horrible time breathing
and i don't know why and he said well
that bathroom cleaner is extremely
volatile you need to take your asthma
medicine you're having an asthma attack
and i said no
i know what an asthma attack feels like
i have had asthma my whole life
i'm not even around a trigger nothing
even smells and he said that bathroom
solution
smells terrible it's very strong and i
was like no i can't smell it at all it
smells like water
and then i realized i have no sense of
smell i couldn't smell
anything not even the volatile chemical
that i was cleaning our bathroom with
so i took my asthma medicine and sure
enough my symptoms went away
almost immediately i was having an
asthma attack and
i rely so much on my known triggers that
i didn't even know it was
asthma despite knowing what an asthma
attack feels like
because i couldn't tell that the trigger
had happened so at that point i was like
well now i have this congestion and a
headache and
jamie has dr rutland has already told me
i need to get tested
now my sense of smell is completely gone
i definitely need to get tested
so i made an appointment and went to get
tested at one of the drive-through
testing centers close to us i went and
the test was not enjoyable but it wasn't
terrible
it's not fun but it should not keep you
from being tested
if you have any concerns about exposure
or symptoms i got tested and it took
about two days to get my results back
and sure enough
i was positive for covert 19. in those
two days i had pretty well decided i am
positive because
i continued to have absolutely no sense
of smell and absolutely no sense of
taste
so i self quarantined away i didn't
leave the house at all
in those two days before my test come
back my husband also started having
symptoms
and the day my test came back he also
lost his sense of smell
and taste so we both had cover 19. i
never
had high fevers a couple of times i had
maybe 101 temp
it was short-lived it went away quickly
i felt okay
except for being really exhausted for
like three days in that time frame and
once i got to about
five days out from my first symptoms i
thought okay i'm getting better
this is fine i have a really mild case
thank goodness
we're good but the next day and over the
course of about four days after that
my breathing was very bad
it wasn't asthma problems i didn't feel
like my asthma was having trouble
but i have a pulse oximeter at home and
i noticed that both myself
and my husband were regularly having
oxygen saturations
from about 90 to 93. after these days of
my low oxygen stats we had one day both
my husband and i
on the same day where we were having
oxygen status in the mid 80s
to high 80s when we were active getting
up moving around going up the stairs
would drop our oxygen sats pretty low
i think probably in hindsight we should
have
used that to indicate we need to go into
the hospital or clinic um but doctors
are the way
worst patients and i decided well we're
okay we're going to write it out at home
every day after that was a little bit
better i finally started feeling better
and now i'm several weeks out and i'm
still
having some lower oxygen sets than
normal so
i don't know if that will recover with
time
or never hopefully it will with time
but it's definitely still there and that
being said i don't have any other
symptoms still
my sense of taste gradually came back it
is not
all the way back but it is a little
better and same with sense of smell so
all of those things are gradually
improving i'm really thankful that we
had a mild case
even having really mild case it was
terrible
way worse than the flu we were just
really sick for about 10 days and after
that
still not super well so i'm thankful
that we had mild cases but
i really want the take home point from
this video or from me sharing my story
other than the questions that dr
welton's going to answer for us
to be this is a serious
illness i have had the flu before and it
was nothing
like the flu i felt terrible for a long
time and it was
really scary for a few days so i want
you guys to know
i i don't think after having this that
even though i wasn't hospitalized and
even though i am feeling
mostly better now i don't think that i
would compare this
to the flu there were a few days where i
felt like i had the flu but there were a
few days that were really scary and
much more significant than any flu i've
ever
had so that's my story of having coveted
19. now i want to ask dr roland some
questions that i had come up in the time
that i was
sick and get his opinion on
outpatient care for people with cover
19. the results didn't give me a lot of
information
and since i had been tested at a
drive-through clinic i didn't have a
doctor i could call to ask questions to
so i was wondering maybe if you could
tell us dr rutland
what kind of symptoms we should be
looking for when we're being taken care
of outpatient that would prompt a visit
to
the outpatient clinic or a visit to
an emergency room and how we know if one
of those things needs to happen
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that's a very common question and i
appreciate that question
the symptoms that should prompt you to
visit the emergency room
include shortness of breath chest pain
very high fever over 38 3 38 4
and other types of symptoms that you
don't think
that you can handle at home you have a
symptom
early on and that symptom decides to get
worse
that's when you need to visit the
emergency department so that we can best
treat you
and we all understand to know that the
earlier we treat you
probably the better off you are yeah
that's super helpful so would those
things
be about the same for kids if parents
are wondering like what should i be
watching for in my child
[Music]
children are gonna display similar
symptoms as adults they're gonna have
cough
they're gonna have shortness of breath
they're gonna have fever they're gonna
have fatigue and in fact when you look
at children
one of the symptoms that i pay the most
attention to is that fatigue
when your child is not acting like
themselves that's when you have to be a
little bit
worried that they're getting sick or
even sicker that's super helpful i want
to
add in here that these are just general
guidelines
if you are worried you need to call and
talk to your doctor or someone who is
close to you in your vicinity a clinic
or a hospital
and get their immediate opinion on the
problem that you're having
i just wanted to make this video to have
some general guidance for people who are
sick at home
and have questions and don't know where
to get answers so that being said dr
rutland if someone is at home
and they have a question like that who
would be the best person
for them to call
[Music]
you know when people are at home sick
whether it's an adult or whether it's a
child
you want to know who you're going to
call in this case if you have the luxury
of having
access to health care you have a primary
care physician
that's who i would always call first
because that physician
is probably the physician you see most
often and is going to know
you or your child the best
so when that happens that's who i would
call so super helpful yeah you can call
your doctor you can call
a nurse line you can call the hospital
and if you got diagnosed in a clinic you
can definitely call that clinic
as well if it's an emergency or you're
having
difficulty breathing chest pain things
like that you need to call an ambulance
so i would say that my most bothersome
symptom
while i was sick was just feeling
exhausted and obviously the only
cure for that is resting and letting
your body do its job to fight off the
virus and get you well
but my husband had very severe throat
pain
and i had a pretty bad headache for most
of the days
what are some over-the-counter
medications that are either safe or not
safe to take
while you are sick with cova 19.
[Music]
that's another common question that we
get all the time
any medicine that's going to reduce your
fever reduce your pain
reduce the symptoms that you're feeling
even cough suppressants they're all
going to help
i use deco i use nyquil i use
tylenol what you want to watch out for
when you're looking at these
over-the-counter medicines
is you do not want to double dose
that is there is tylenol in nyquil
and then there's also tylenol so you
want to be
weary of that you want to understand
that a lot of these
over-the-counter remedies have the same
ingredients
just look at the back of those
ingredients and make sure the
ingredients are different
that way you can give your organs a
little bit of a relief
and allow them to clear the medicines
appropriately and you can take them
every six hours or every four hours or
as indicated
excellent so i think this is maybe one
of the most important questions
when someone gets a diagnosis of coven
19 how
long should they stay quarantined and
away from other people
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when you're symptomatic with sars cove 2
generally what we'll say is quarantine
for 10 days
after your onset of symptoms if your
symptoms continue
then yes that will of course change if
you're
asymptomatic and you have no symptoms
whatsoever
of the presence of the virus within your
body and you just took a test because
you were around somebody that had it
what we say is from the moment of that
positive test
we say 10 days of quarantine that is
don't be around
anyone else don't have any close
contacts try to stay in your room
that's what we want because we want to
help stop the spread of this disease
all over the world and you also want to
be able to identify who
actually is a close contact you're
within six feet
for 15 minutes or more within a 24 hour
period
those are the people that are considered
close contacts if they have coven 19
and so you have to quarantine yourself
if
you are one of those people that's
within that six feet
for 15 minutes or more okay great well
those are the guidelines that we
followed and i appreciate you
sharing them with my audience here as
well that brings me to my next question
when i was finally starting to feel well
and i was out of quarantine
i was wondering you know when is it safe
for me to go back to doing
my normal activities when can i go
running when can i go skiing things like
that so what would you say to someone
who is wondering when can i get back to
my normal activities
if you're asking me that question as
your physician i'd say you can go back
to it right now
you can go ahead and exercise you can
get on that peloton you can get on that
track
whatever it is that you do that makes
you feel good about yourself
go ahead and do it once you're through
this illness if you're coming to my
clinic and you're asking me
that means that you're ready in my mind
you might have a little bit less stamina
than before
that's okay that's normal you'll build
back up
you'll fight through that but also know
that exercise is important for your
mental state
and it's also important for your immune
system that allows your immune system to
be efficient
and to function properly interesting all
right well thank you so much dr rotlin
for
being here please know that this video
is not a substitute
for medical advice from your doctor i
just wanted to get a little bit of
information out there
so that people who are sitting at home
and wondering these questions
like i was will be able to have some
answers at least a little bit cover 19
guidelines and regulations
are rapidly changing know that this is
up to date to the best of our ability
as of the day of upload but that things
could change and i'll do my best to
update you if something like that
happens
if you want more of me dr j rutland you
can find me on instagram at dr j rutland
d-r-j
r-u-t-l-a-n-d you can also find me on
youtube
at medicine deconstructed thanks for
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