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The 10 most frequent questions about the behaviors to follow if you discover that you have something positive for Covid in the family. Today at Il Tempo, Professor Francesco Vaia, medical director of the Lazzaro Spallanzani hospital in Rome, responds
1) What should I do if I live with a positive relative?
It has to be placed in what is called fiduciary home isolation. He cannot have contact with the other members of the family unit, he must have an isolated room in which he must spend the entire period of the illness. Use hygiene rules (hand washing or use of gloves) when touching objects used by the positive subject ».
2) What if it is asymptomatic?
“An asymptomatic person is not technically ill but can infect and must still be placed in fiduciary home isolation. It must be separated from the community during the contagion period, in an environment and conditions that in any case prevent the transmission of the infection ”.
3) Do all the members of the cohabiting family also have to do a swab?
“The tampon should definitely be done but it is better to do it 4 or 5 days after the first symptoms of the positive person appear. This is because doing it right away could result in a false negative result as the virus needs an incubation period. The race to the buffer is useless, you only run the risk of clogging the structures.
4) What kind of cutlery, plates, containers should be used for the food of a positive couple?
“It is preferable to use disposable plates and cutlery, as is the case in health centers. But you can also use normal plates and cutlery and then wash them in the dishwasher because at that time even if there were any traces of viruses they would be eliminated. However, we know that the surface virus lives for a short time. It is advisable to touch all objects with gloves.
5) How should I wash the clothes of the infected person?
«For clothes, the same precautions apply as for plates and cutlery, they should be handled with gloves. It is fine to wash them in the washing machine even together with the clothes of other members of the household. No particular temperature is required, you can use the ones that are normally used. Let us remember that the virus does not walk, it is spread by contact ».
6) Can I use the same bathroom?
«The bathroom should only be used by the positive subject. Otherwise, it must be sanitized each time, using a mask and gloves, with common disinfectants such as alcohol-based (75-89% ethanol) and quaternary ammonium. Effective hand hygiene is also achieved by washing with soap and water. But you have to rub them for 60 seconds.
7) Is there a particular food that a person who has tested positive for Covid should eat?
“There are no specific foods to eat during the period of illness. You will be able to maintain your usual eating habits, continuing to respect the usual indications that the doctor has given us if there are already previous pathologies. Obviously, each subject reacts differently and therefore will adjust to the most appropriate diet.
8) How long must a positive remain isolated?
“Symptomatic Covid-positive people can return to the community after isolation of at least 10 days from the onset of symptoms (without considering anosmia and ageusia / dysgeusia that may persist for a long time) accompanied by a test molecular negative performed after at least 3 days without symptoms (10 days, of which at least 3 days without symptoms + test) ».
9) Until when should the cohabitants remain in quarantine?
10) Do people who have come into contact with a family member other than the Covid positive person also have to do a swab?
“There is no quarantine or running diagnostic tests on close contacts of close contacts of the case (that is, there has been no direct contact with the confirmed case), unless the close contact of the case is subsequently positive or in the case where , in the opinion of the health authorities, community screening is adequate “.
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