The holiday season brought more patients than usual to emergency rooms. The recommendation of family doctors is to consume in moderation and to stock up on medicines at home.
The winter holiday season promises to end with a viral epidemic for many this year, with a number of diseases on the move, including flu and corona. In several families, Christmas Eve celebrations were therefore cancelled.
“We were still hoping that the children would be well by Christmas, but just before Christmas I got sick too, as the children have been coughing in my face for a week straight. We can’t do anything, everything has stopped,” said parent Marie Nigol.
“Actually, many people now have sick children or are sick themselves, so we are by no means the only ones,” he said.
The doctors’ recommendation is to stock up on medicines at home during the holiday period and to consult the family nurse by calling the family doctor’s toll-free number at 12.20 pm before going to the emergency room.
Long vacations place an additional burden on any medical facility. “The main health concerns are perhaps linked both to excessive nutrition – even in chronically ill patients their condition worsens, also due to perhaps excessive consumption of salty and fatty foods – but obviously also to excessive consumption of alcohol, which especially during long holidays, if there have been these celebrations for several days in a row, can represent a danger”, said Eva-Maria Sentifoli-Saluveer, nursing manager of the Family Clinic.
This year’s holidays also brought more patients than usual to the emergency room. If the average number of patients per day in the emergency room of the Northern Estonian Regional Hospital is 200, today there are about 100 more.
“Slipperiness also plays a role. There are traumas, about a quarter of traumatic points are slippery injuries. And unfortunately, the same pattern that Estonians celebrate with alcohol, there are still significant traumas and problems caused by alcohol,” Sirli Saar said. , emergency medicine doctor at PERH.
So, to avoid getting into EMO, you need to take it slow and not think about it too much.
“Less stress in holiday preparations, gifts are not the most important thing, every corner of the room does not have to be as clean as possible. Avoid stress, pay more attention to your loved ones, maybe less food and drink,” he said Sentifoli-Saluveer.
Accidents usually peak on December 31, but now it’s worth considering the long queues in emergency rooms.
2023-12-25 16:39:00
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