The head physician of the covid hospital warned against self-diagnosis and self-treatment

Patients should not engage in self-diagnosis and self-treatment, otherwise they will have to "catch up with the disease developing in the wrong direction." This was announced to RBC by the chief physician of the Moscow City Clinical Hospital (GKB) No. 52, Maryana Lysenko.

“I am extremely negative about self-diagnosis and self-treatment. Whether it 's covid-19 , influenza, measles, acute respiratory infections, heart attack or something else. There is a medical community for this, there are doctors who should be sent for a certain examination, diagnosed and treated in accordance with what is happening, and not then catching up with the history developing in the wrong direction and getting complications after incorrect treatment, which are associated with incorrect use certain medications,” Lysenko said.

The HEAD physician also warned against the uncontrolled use of medicinal herbs. “Including herbal medicine, which can also be unsafe, depending on what doses it is used in and what it should help with,” Lysenko noted.

She added that everyone should mind their own business. “Doctors should treat, make diagnoses, patients should work where they work, be specialists in their fields and not pretend to become specialists in all spheres of life,” Lysenko said.