Underlying health risks such as asthma

[ringo]

Is there a discussion on this? So much info here I can't see one, but happy to delete this and join in in the appropriate place if so.

Anyone got any useful info on how bad underlying health risks have to be before you consider yourself at risk and should isolate?

I have mild asthma. Mild as in I have no symptoms, but only because I have to use a preventative inhaler each morning (Fostair / beclometasone dipropionate). So really it's a chronic respiratory illness that could potentially be but probably isn't life threatening, relieved by drugs, but they work so I feel fine.

 

[hash tag]

Sorry ringo, don't know. I too am a mild asthmatic and in partial remission from cancer. Anyone with asthma is considered high risk. Initially there was a thought that you should isolate for 13 weeks. Last official word I heard was that there would be further news on Monday.
fwiw, if you see my rants on other threads, I work on the "caring" side of a local authority, visiting clients in need in their own homes. Ive now written to management 3 times without reply and also occupational therapy for guidance last night....zilch

 

[two sheds]

I saw somewhere that if you qualify for a flu jab (I do) then you're at risk.

 

[hash tag]

Its not the flu jab that puts you at risk. Because you qualify for a flu jab you are defined as being at risk.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I have on my repeat prescription a blue reliever inhaler because often when I get a cold - like now - it starts in my nose and throat before happily migrating to my chest. When this happens I can get very wheezy, and find it hard to breathe. I have no breathing troubles the rest of the time and do not (any longer) use a brown preventive inhaler.

I've been been self isolated since Monday and am not planning on being near other people besides the ones I live with for several months.

 

[danny la rouge]

Its not the flu jab that puts you at risk. Because you qualify for a flu jab you are defined as being at risk.

Precisely.

 

[Steel Icarus]

They send me an offer of a flu jab most years. Never have it

 

[two sheds]

Its not the flu jab that puts you at risk. Because you qualify for a flu jab you are defined as being at risk.

Yes indeed - what I meant.

Edited my post to make it more sensible and yours look silly

 

[hash tag]

I'm wheezing now having read that.

 

[hash tag]

I have on my repeat prescription a blue reliever inhaler because often when I get a cold - like now - it starts in my nose and throat before happily migrating to my chest. When this happens I can get very wheezy, and find it hard to breathe. I have no breathing troubles the rest of the time and do not (any longer) use a brown preventive inhaler.

I've been been self isolated since Monday and am not planning on being near other people besides the ones I live with for several months.

Discretion stops me asking why just makes me think why you, not me

 

[two sheds]

I have on my repeat prescription a blue reliever inhaler because often when I get a cold - like now - it starts in my nose and throat before happily migrating to my chest. When this happens I can get very wheezy, and find it hard to breathe. I have no breathing troubles the rest of the time and do not (any longer) use a brown preventive inhaler.

I've been been self isolated since Monday and am not planning on being near other people besides the ones I live with for several months.

I found brown preventive inhaler no good - but seretide or fostair make a real difference. I did also have a powder seretide? inhaler which made me feel like I was choking when i went to bed so swapped it for the aerosol type which is brilliant.

 

[hash tag]

Becotide ( brown reliever) and blue salbutamol for me.
i was told for becotide to be effective it needs to be taken regularly for a few days at least. I quite often drop it altogether.
anyone notice how the colours of the inhalers and caps are easily distinguishable in the dark?

 

[ringo]

Cheers, I get the flu jab because of age, almost 50. I guess from the comments above that any degree of asthma requiring medication puts you in the 'at risk' group.
We're going to isolate as much as poss now 'cos Mrs R is a social worker and needs to be working.
My teenager currently flits between mine, her Mum's and her boyfriends house and eye rolls and foot stamps at the suggestion that she should stay put.

 

[two sheds]

Yep I'm not going round friends' houses or inviting them round mine, just walking the dog really and getting deliveries .

 

[Sue]

I'm WFH at the moment and for the next 10 days or so -- we all are as there've been a couple of positive cases in our office.

I told my boss last week I was immunosuppressed because friends and family had been hassling me about working in the office. It was pretty clear he didn't know what to do/this kind of thing hadn't really been considered. Then we were overtaken by events and we all ended up working from home anyway so... However, I haven't had the 'at risk and therefore I need to work at home for the next three months' conversation yet which is where I presume I need to go next. TBH, I've been putting it off as I think they may be a bit rubbish about it. And I also don't really want to think about it right now. I know, pathetic really.

 

[Big Bertha]

Is there a discussion on this? So much info here I can't see one, but happy to delete this and join in in the appropriate place if so.

Anyone got any useful info on how bad underlying health risks have to be before you consider yourself at risk and should isolate?

I have mild asthma. Mild as in I have no symptoms, but only because I have to use a preventative inhaler each morning (Fostair / beclometasone dipropionate). So really it's a chronic respiratory illness that could potentially be but probably isn't life threatening, relieved by drugs, but they work so I feel fine.

I have kind of same thing, use Fostair (which is so much better than previous preventative inhalers imho)

Haven’t really seen any info apart from generic, if you get a free flu jab then you are at risk. Which doesn’t feel that helpful.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

ringo - as mentioned above, if you have asthma you're at risk of complications, so follow the advice. I get the flu jab each year and have had the pneumonia vaccine so am definitely in the high risk category. Better safe than sorry.

 

[Epona]

My OH has severe asthma (he's been hospitalised at least once due to having a cold) and now possible COPD and short of stapling him to the sofa I can't get him to stay at home - he has a regular and fairly new part time job at a nightclub, yes they are closed to the public at the moment, but are doing a deep-clean and stocktake tonight and he's bored after just a week of no work so he's gone to help. He knows I'm not happy about it.

 

[petee]

They send me an offer of a flu jab most years. Never have it

why not?

also, over here, everybody "qualifies" for the flu shot, it's given to anyone who.asks.

alsoalso, i had very bad asthma when young, suffocating, i had a pill called Tedral, which took 20-30 minutes to work, but left me floating (it was on the drug market as "butterflies"). now i carry the blue inhaler, and wonder if this puts me in the dangerous territory. so far so good.

 

[danny la rouge]

also, over here, everybody "qualifies" for the flu shot, it's given to anyone who.asks.

Yes, it’s given to whoever asks here too. It’s just that if you have asthma, heart disease, diabetes, you’re old, etc etc you get invited to have one each year. Those who are invited are those we're talking about. I’m one of those.

 

[lazythursday]

I also have asthma which rarely bothers me - just sometimes when a cold goes on my chest, or sometimes through too many spliffs
Only had a couple of really bad attacks in last decade, one allergy related in a really muggy summer and another one NYE after overdoing coke.

The attacks always surprise me because I just don't think of myself as having it any more because it's so rare. But at the beginning of the month when this started to take off I pulled myself together, bought new blue inhalers off internet, quit smoking, been mega social distancing. I've had times when I thought I might die from not being able to breathe and so this has freaked me a bit.

 

[danny la rouge]

Does nobody have a red inhaler? I’ve got a blue one and a red one.

 

[two sheds]

not fostair i.e. pink? what's the drug?

eta is it steroid? I think a friend has red inhaler because she's allergic to steroids.

 

[danny la rouge]

not fostair i.e. pink? what's the drug?

eta is it steroid? I think a friend has red inhaler because she's allergic to steroids.

 

[two sheds]

ah ok - yes is combination steroid one. I've heard of a couple of experimental inhalers over the last week - one being trialed for cv too.

 

[Sue]

Maybe you've got a red one because you're danny la rouge..? (With the enormo hands. Not judging, just sayin'.)

 

[danny la rouge]

ah ok - yes is combination steroid one. I've heard of a couple of experimental inhalers over the last week - one being trialed for cv too.

I used to have a brown one, but they changed it to a red one for reasons.

 

[danny la rouge]

With the enormo hands.

I’ve got normal sized hands!

 

[two sheds]

reasons being that the brown one didn't work?



sorry I found it useless although I suppose it will work for some

 

[Sue]

I’ve got normal sized hands!