Benefit of Nasal Douche in COVID-19 Patients with Recurrence of Positive SARS-CoV-2 Viral RNA

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Purpose: The purpose was to review relevant clinical data and formulate recommendations supporting the use of saline as a simple rinse for an early reassuring intervention to reduce the occurrence of re-positive COVID-19 patients.

Methods: We conducted a single-centre retrospective cohort study, which enrolled patients with confirmed re-testing positive COVID-19 during 7-60 days after discharge from Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen. By one-to-two propensity score matching for age and sex, the control group of those not re-testing positive during the same period served as matched control.

Results: A total of 223 patients were included in our study, 94 in re-positive group and 129 in non-re-positive group. The result shows that the rates of nasal douche treatment in the non-re-positive group were considerably higher than that of the re-positive group. And the Ct value of nasal douche group increased faster than that of non-nasal douche group after the Ct value reaching ≥35. Further analysis revealed that the higher the Ct value at the time of readmission, the shorter the time of average Ct values to reach ≥35.

Conclusion: These findings suggest that nasal douche is beneficial to shorten the time of virus nucleic acid turning negative, thereby reducing the incidence of re-positive. The prevention and control of epidemics focuses on re-positive patients with Ct values <35.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Infection and drug resistance - 16(2023) vom: 26., Seite 6269-6276

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liao, Xuejiao [VerfasserIn]
Guan, Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Asakawa, Tetsuya [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Zixun [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Qingrong [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Zhenghua [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Shuting [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xiaobin [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Jingke [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Liping [VerfasserIn]
Deng, Jiayu [VerfasserIn]
Liao, Zhonghui [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Sumei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Cheng [VerfasserIn]
Song, Shuo [VerfasserIn]
Yi, Hongyang [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Song [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Hongzhou [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Journal Article
Nasal douche
RT-PCR
Re-positive

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Date Revised 28.09.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.2147/IDR.S421380

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362465304