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Covid - diabetes
My father is 61 yrs old dibateic with sugar around 374 he is covid + ( 2 and half hour after dinner at 10:45 PM).
Symptoms : fever, dry cough
Bp is normal, current temp is 97, oxygen is 97
We are giving him paracetamol 650 along with cough syrup and mucinac.
Anyways to control his sugar, gildax pm2 is the medicine we are giving him and was given around 7 Pm
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Dr. Arpita A. Sethi
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15 yrs exp
Delhi
For your father's safety,he needs urgent care under the supervision of a doctor,not generalized advice and over the counter medicines.
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Dr. devulapalli sai kaushik
MBBS
4 yrs exp
Hyderabad
dear user, your father is diabetic and 374 is the postprandial sugar value , i.e , his sugar levels are very high
he is covid positive
to be frank , he falls under the high risk category.
so in order to get it right.
he needs be to given antivirals as soon as possible in order to stop the cycle...preferabbly in the first 5days of symptoms
the tablets which u are giving are not sufficient
irrespective of the oxygen saturations and temperature he needs to get admitted in the hospital
if at all hospital and admission is delayed
kindly get
esr, crp, d dimer, ldh,rft, lft,s ferritin reports done and if possible send it me
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so kindly get him admitted in a hoapital so that they cant start giving him remdisvir and other drugs
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please be careful, and get the above blood tests done , u can contact me at
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