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On March 28, 2022, the Ministry of Health issues the Decision No. 775/QD-BYT on Guidelines on care and management for pregnant women, lactating women, and infants infected with Covid-19 at home.a
Accordingly, the Ministry of Health guides the health monitor for pregnant women with Covid-19 at home as follows:
- Take body temperature reading at least twice a day in the morning, in the evening and when experiencing any irregularity. Count breathing rate, pulse, measure SpO2 and blood pressure (if possible) on a daily basis.
- Check for pregnancy-related signs fetal movement; any obstetric irregularity.
- Immediately inform health workers or have a checkup at medical facilities upon experiencing any irregularity or any emergency or obstetric irregularity.
Management and care during pregnancy
- Attend antenatal care whenever experiencing an irregularity or when indicated by health workers;
- If a pregnant woman does not experience any obstetric irregularity on the date of antenatal care, provide remote antenatal care or advise waiting until expiration of isolation period;
- Have a healthy diet, do healthy exercises, supplement micronutrients, refrain from smoking or come into contact with secondhand smoking, refrain from using alcoholic beverages and other stimulants, addictive substances;
- Maintain supplement of iron/folic acid or multi-micronutrient tablets as instructed by health workers (stop immediately after experiencing vomiting and/or diarrhea).
