Even though Sri Lanka doesn’t feel seasonal changes in many of its districts, some climatic changes may occur during the upcoming month with the winter season. So, it will be essential to get prepared for health practices to minimize cold and flu among the people who work hard, students who often go here and there, play and study hard, and everyone who will have to face climatic changes recently. Our last article discussed treating minor diseases via telemedicine in Sri Lanka. You can visit the article, How to treat minor diseases in Sri Lanka via telemedicine? If you carefully read the article, you can find valuable information as an entryway to introduce telemedicine to treat the minor diseases mentioned there. You can also refer to some important initial knowledge about how to treat them via telemedicine as a brief. However, here we will learn about the best treatment of colds and flu in Sri Lanka that can be obtained via telemedicine practice. First, identify what is cold and flu that is not a sign of another infection or a chronic disease.

How do you identify the common cold?

Common colds can be determined through simple conditions that can be observed. It is a viral infection transmitted through airborne droplets, saliva, and close personal contact. You can also become infected by contacting an infected person’s stool (feces) or respiratory secretions. 

Usually common cold is a harmless disease that spreads through several types of viruses, and adults can expect two or three colds yearly. An infected person will recover within 10 days, while symptoms will be seen for more days in people who smoke.

Treatment of colds and flu are the same. But, there will be no fever in the patients who only suffer from colds. In that case, there will be a few differences. However, your doctor will identify the infection level, immunity, age, and everything, even via telemedicine. The most important thing is that the doctor will ask the patient to observe the symptoms via interactive video and audio conferencing. A patient suffering from the common cold will show the following signs.

Symptoms of the common cold

The common cold infects your nose, throat, and lungs. Collectively to the respiratory system. Symptoms of the common cold can vary from person to person. It happens due to the immunity level can be different from 

• Runny or stuffy nose
• Typically feeling unwell
• Body aches
• Mild headache
• Sore throat
• Cough
• Congestion
• Sneezing
• Low-grade fever

As a cold progresses, your nasal discharge may start out clear and become thick and yellow or green. This isn’t a sign of bacterial infection. The body’s immune system fights to eliminate the disease within a week or 10 days. If you are working and in contact with many people, you may not wait for 10 days. So, you can try some home remedies or quickly engage in a telemedicine treatment of colds and flu at your home.

When to go for a telemedicine treatment of the colds and flu?

Seek medical attention easily via telemedicine when you have the following conditions.

• When symptoms are getting worse
• Wheezing troubles your convenience
• Shortness of breath
• Severe sore throat, headache, or sinus pain
• A fever over 101.3 F (38.5 C) lasts more than three days
• Rising fever
• Ear pain
• Loss of appetite

When you feel one of the above diseases, quickly open the Deedmed Lives application at a comfortable time at a comfortable place, and schedule a meeting with the perfect doctor. You can get in touch with your doctor after arriving home from work and staying relaxed. Once the doctor observes you through our application’s innovative audio and video technology, you can obtain the prescription and direct it to the nearest pharmacy registered on Deedmed Lives. Then the pharmacy partner will deliver the medicine within a short period of time.

Telemedicine treatments for flu

In the same way, as mentioned above, you can take the necessary medications for flu. Flu is a respiratory illness that even can cause death. So, you have to pay more attention to taking medicines than when you have a common cold. You can seek telemedicine help as soon as you get infected by the flu. Telemedicine treatments for colds and flu in Sri Lanka have developed with Deedmed Lives since many hospitals, best doctors, and pharmacy partners have joined here. So, there is no need to worry about the time and travel cost of seeking a doctor’s help when you have the following symptoms. You can easily download the telemedicine application, register, and schedule a doctor’s appointment.

• Same symptoms as the common cold
• Coughing
• Congestion

The flu or influenza is a highly contagious infection. So you will have to follow some preventive methods, seek a doctor’s help, and get the prescriptions.

Benefits of telemedicine treatment for Cold and Flu via Deedmed Lives

At Deedmed Lives, we have the best doctors with experience treating respiratory infections. Since many of them are active for the patients’ needs, anyone can easily get your prescriptions and direct them to a pharmacy partner on Deedmed Lives. Since your medical history will be saved in an encrypted way, you can show them to a doctor easily whenever you seek their help. So, the doctor can assume your immunity level and the viruses’ risky level with the previous medications.