Before getting the vaccine, check your health first

[이데일리 이순용 기자]With the start of the full-fledged’Corona 19′ vaccination, expectations and anxiety are crossing. Anxiety is also coexisting with the expectation that patients with underlying diseases can be released from masks by forming collective immunity as soon as a day. However, the important thing is that in order to increase the effectiveness of the vaccine and prevent side effects, it is necessary to reliably check and prepare for one’s health status before vaccination.

According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccination plan, health care workers are vaccinating sequentially, and in the second quarter, elderly people over 65 are waiting for vaccination, and from July, chronically ill and the general public under the age of 18 to 64 are waiting for vaccination.

Before July, when the general vaccination is concentrated, the way to accurately diagnose one’s body condition is to undergo a medical examination. As the number of infections in hospitals increases, people are reluctant to visit hospital examination centers due to safety issues.

“Especially those with early diabetes suspected or mild hypertension and hyperlipidemia, patients with cardio-cerebrovascular disease, and obese patients and the elderly who are susceptible to these diseases. It is time to recognize the condition and receive early checkups and treatment,” he advised. “Before getting the vaccine, healthy people without special diseases should check their health status and immunity through a checkup, and those with digestive and cardio-cerebrovascular diseases should pay attention to systematic immunity management through detailed medical checkups. I do” he added.

In the past year, personal hygiene management such as washing hands and wearing masks with’Corona 19′ has become a common practice, so the number of people with respiratory infections such as colds has decreased significantly from 2019, before the corona epidemic, while those with chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure have rather increased.

According to the statistics of Yangji Hospital, the number of diabetic patients from March to September 2020 was 9,722, an increase of 700 from 9,110 in 2019. Last year, the number of hyperlipidemia patients was 13,409, up from 12,928 in 2019. As such, it is estimated that the result of people receiving active treatment in the opinion of experts that coronavirus has a poor prognosis for the underlying disease.

“Most of the corona infection deaths had underlying diseases such as cardio-cerebrovascular, diabetes, and high blood pressure,” said Choi Gyu-young, a specialist in circulatory organs at Yangji Hospital. Because it is accompanied by a medical examination, preventive management is necessary to diagnose and treat the disease at an early stage.”