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Now ye're talking - to a consultant in the HSE [Questions thread]

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  • #32
    celt262
    Registered Users Posts: 3,368 ✭✭✭celt262


    Just seen this pic online. Does it frustrate you that people are making up stuff and posting on social media?


  • #33
    Scot_in_Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 237 ✭✭Scot_in_Dublin


    Not a question, just a very sincere thank you to you and all of your colleagues globally who are working around the clock to keep the rest of us going.


  • #34
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Can you explain the 15 minute in contact time?


  • #35
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    humberklog wrote: »
    Whenever my mate is asked what he does for a living he says "Doctor". He's an Ed. D (Dr. of Education) and does indeed work in this field (Adult education). Does it get your goat when you hear people claiming to be a doctor when their field is non med/psych?

    Like the dentist on that movie?


  • #36
    Ladybird18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Ladybird18


    My child who is asthmatic is complaining with sore throat and nausea tonight.
    Should I be worried?


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  • #37
    Pseudonym121
    Registered Users Posts: 309 ✭✭Pseudonym121


    Oops, posted in the wrong thread.


  • #38
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,770 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    What happens after you've self isolated for the 14 days after testing positive?
    Have you built up an immuninty?
    Could you catch it again?


    And a big well done to all in emergency services and the HSE.


  • #39
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 36,083 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    Best of luck over the coming days, weeks and months.

    Are the HSE trying experimental treatments ala South Korea and China? I'm referencing chloroquine here and some of the old HIV drugs that have been mentioned.


  • #40
    Andrew H
    Registered Users Posts: 205 ✭✭Andrew H


    I work in the public service as a Clerical Officer and there are rumours that we will be sent home on Friday. Is there any way I can volunteer to help out?


  • #41
    Drumpot
    Registered Users Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Thanks for doing this and for your service now and in the coming crisis. Can’t imagine what it must be like for you all but I’m truly grateful.

    Can I ask if it’s true that “mile symptoms” can actually be like a nasty pneumonia, so while it’s medically mild it could really knock people back?

    At what stage should a person contact the emergency services for help? What fever in adult and if they find it hard to breath?

    Would keeping track of BP and Oxegen levels help emergency services decide whether you need hospitalisation? (Oximeter readings)

    Asides from being tested will a lot of people with “mild symptoms” possibly not ever know that they had the disease unless for some reason they are tested? Is it possible in the future to be tested to see if you had it or have antibodies?


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  • #42
    messinkiapina
    Registered Users Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭messinkiapina


    For individuals who experience mild symptoms to the point they may not even know they've contracted it (and presumably develop immunity afterwards), will testing be available to them at some stage? And would those tests show that the virus had been present but overcome?

    It would be ideal if everyone who's had this knew about it, they could stop social distancing and help the vulnerable and those in need of care?


  • #43
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,223 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    In your opinion, which will peak first? Covid-19, or threads about Covid-19?


  • #44
    sadie1502
    Registered Users Posts: 666 ✭✭✭sadie1502


    Drugs to treat malaria and arthritis have been showing positive signs in treatment. Will these be available in Ireland if required?

    Thank you for your help in uncharted territories. Keep safe.


  • #45
    Pseudonym121
    Registered Users Posts: 309 ✭✭Pseudonym121


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Whats the reason for that out of curiousity? Are all AMAs following that approach from here on? (just seems a tad strange? I presume it's to make the answers easier for people to read?)

    I requested it specifically and Boards.ie were kind enough to oblige.

    I am doing this because I hope that the information I post will be helpful to people.

    The more accessible it is the more helpful it will be therefore I requested this format so answers would be accessible in a single thread without a myriad of other comments, jokes etc. I'm fine with them in the questions thread but I want the Answers thread to have the maximum accessibility possible.


  • #46
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    I am just curious as to whether you think a time may come when a virus or some type of infectious disease will appear that will have the potential to effectively wipe out all of humanity. I`m talking 12 Monkeys style here. Hopefully this one won`t be it! Anyway my thoughts and prayers are with you and your colleagues for the ordeal that lays ahead of you.


  • #47
    amber2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,578 ✭✭✭amber2


    Just querying the recommendation of the use of ibuprofen, many Professors & Doctors saying not to take it and of course France saying the same. Years ago I took my son for an assessment to Dr. muireann ni chroinin who said not to use Nuorfen so wondered if there could be any truth to this for treatment of Covid 19.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/health-experts-criticise-nhs-advice-to-take-ibuprofen-for-covid-19?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

    Edit : I see you have addressed this already.

    Hope you, your colleagues and families stay safe during all this, we are all venturing into the unknown here and you guys are standing on the front line, I salute you.


  • #48
    seligehgit
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    Sincere gratitude to you,all your colleagues and frontline staff.


  • #49
    madmaggie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Firstly, thank for taking the time to do this, it will help put people's mind at ease. Never before have we all depended on you and your colleagues so much.

    I'm the carer for my elder uncle who has a heart condition and asthma. He is afraid for himself, but more afraid for me, as he relies on me. Even children are fearful.


  • #50
    Funnyonion79
    Registered Users Posts: 569 ✭✭✭Funnyonion79


    Thank you so much for doing this and for what you are doing for us all, day to day.

    My question is this...in two weeks time, after self isolating at home with my husband and children, is it safe for us to visit my parents/in-laws, who have also been self isolating at home, during this time? The only time any of us would've left the house is to go for a walk or go to the supermarket. The in-laws are mid 70s but in good health.

    Thank you.


  • #51
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Still wondering where the answers are, please - is there a link?

    Q: While front line staff paid are being allowed home on paid sick leave inc to mind their children off school unpaid inexperienced volunteers are being emailed from the HSE asking them to go into hospitals to help with the virus. Something fundamentally wrong with this. Surely the time for paid HSE staff to pull their weight is when there is a crisis and they are needed and not be asking or relying on emailing randomers from a charity database to pick up their slack.

    My family member called in sick on full HSE pay to mind her children - surely this type of abuse should be stopped.


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  • #52
    lomb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭lomb


    JustAThought wrote: »
    Still wondering where the answers are, please - is there a link?

    Q: While front line staff paid are being allowed home on paid sick leave inc to mind their children off school unpaid inexperienced volunteers are being emailed from the HSE asking them to go into hospitals to help with the virus. Something fundamentally wrong with this. Surely the time for paid HSE staff to pull their weight is when there is a crisis and they are needed and not be asking or relying on emailing randomers from a charity database to pick up their slack.

    My family member called in sick on full HSE pay to mind her children - surely this type of abuse should be stopped.

    Not saying it's the same but rats and a sinking ship come to mind. I think the only acceptable solution is to shut everything down not even food pickup, full army curfew for 2 weeks.


  • #53
    Purgative
    Registered Users Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭Purgative


    Hi


    No question just wanted to say an inadequate thank you for all you and your colleagues do.

    I'm getting through your answers on the other thread, and have sent the link to a couple of friends.

    For the third time reading your thread I've found my eyes watering - something in my eye obviously.


    Thank you again.


  • #54
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    JustAThought wrote: »
    Still wondering where the answers are, please - is there a link?

    Q: While front line staff paid are being allowed home on paid sick leave inc to mind their children off school unpaid inexperienced volunteers are being emailed from the HSE asking them to go into hospitals to help with the virus. Something fundamentally wrong with this. Surely the time for paid HSE staff to pull their weight is when there is a crisis and they are needed and not be asking or relying on emailing randomers from a charity database to pick up their slack.

    My family member called in sick on full HSE pay to mind her children - surely this type of abuse should be stopped.

    Link to the answers thread below.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058062219


  • #55
    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,369 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    How long is the recovery period?


  • #56
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    What is the protocol if a work colleague tests positive? Is the work place contacted? and if so by who? What happens after that?


  • #57
    JoChervil
    Registered Users Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭JoChervil


    It was a disease running around late December/early January. In reports from that time it was said that there was a 25% increase in hospital admissions of patients over 75.

    So my question is: how HSE ruled out that it was not Covid-19? How many tests were made to prove it was something else like a different kind of flu (I mean percentage of cases checked for it)?


  • #58
    piplip87
    Registered Users Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭piplip87


    Hi there,

    Have you seen any day services cancelled ? My OH has MS and is on a monthly infusion. As far as I understand there is a massive increase in the risk of an attack if left for more than 5 weeks between treatments.

    Have you seen or heard if any alternative arrangements for these treatments ?


  • #59
    Kerry25x
    Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Kerry25x


    How do you feel about the speculation happening that health care workers are at much higher risk of developing severe/critical illness if they come infected? Have you any advice for other front line hospital staff?


  • #60
    laserlad2010
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭laserlad2010


    If you're not a public health specialist you have no business providing official COVID-19 advice, even cloaked as personal advice, to the public. It's bad enough with the Whatsapp rumours, but talking about writing your own will at the same time as attempting to give advice in your capacity as a consultant is inapproriate. Regardless of whether it turns into a "war".
    Even if you claim you're not representing the HSE people will still place weight on your words.


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  • #61
    Balf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭Balf


    laserlad2010 wrote: »
    If you're not a public health specialist you have no business providing official COVID-19 advice, even cloaked as personal advice, to the public. It's bad enough with the Whatsapp rumours, but talking about writing your own will at the same time as attempting to give advice in your capacity as a consultant is inapproriate. Regardless of whether it turns into a "war".
    Even if you claim you're not representing the HSE people will still place weight on your words.
    On the button, IMHO.


    I'd feel there's about as much foresight put into this thread, as there is into how long we can seriously expect the global economy to go to a halt.



    Maybe we should ask him if threats like Covid 19 show the impracticality of organising access to medical knowledge through a tiny bunch of highly paid consultants. I think he'll know what we mean.


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