Coronavirus as COVID-19 Self-Assessment

What Can Be Done to Evade Coronavirus Infection? Part 1

A common sense approach to evade any potential infection is to first become knowledgeable of the facts about what one is dealing with relative to its impact on one’s health.  Explore at least three things:  characteristics of the virus and how is it transmitted, effects of the virus on the body, and how to minimize infection risk and disease.   Characteristics of the virus and transmission have been outlined in the previous blog, and have been public knowledge prior to the onset of the CoVid19 discovery.  To curb human to human transmission in the general community, social distancing of approximately 6 feet from the other person, frequent hand washing with soap and water, wearing masks while in a crowded space, and wearing gloves when handling items publicly shared like door handles, credit card machines and gas hoses, are suggested.

Minimizing risks of infection and disease requires taking a pro-active stance, based on scientific information.  Acquiring knowledge of one’s individual health status and taking measures on a daily basis to maintain health is the turnkey to minimizing infection and disease.  In other words, how strong is one’s health base?  Self- assessment is encouraged where several basic self-assessment queries are posed: ascertaining the number of colds/flus experienced per year, how well wounds heal, number of recurrent infections especially relative to sinus and lungs, chronic fatigue episodes, sleep patterns, stress responses correlated to ill health, weight loss, unexplained patterns of fevers, history of high blood pressure, cardiovascular and respiratory issues, and inflammatory disorders like autoimmune, gastrointestinal and other diseases.  It is noted that self-assessment may be limited in scope, so an evaluation by an integrative, certified functional medicine practitioner may be needed to correlate reported symptoms and physical examination findings with test results.