If it is COVID, the patient should be treated within 5 days of the first symptoms. The very successful Zelenko protocol is as follows:
Ask doc for nebulizer and vials of Budesonide stat asap and maybe albuterol and try keep her at home. Maybe injection steroid also.
Your Oxygen Level can go down for a lot of reasons, try panic attack and hyperventilating.
Emergency Room will diagnose her, put her on oxygen.
Ultimately, they may just counsel her on her breathing.
Zinc Sulfate, Vitamin D3, Vitamin K2, Beta Glucan, L Ascorbic Acid or Sodium Ascorbate, Activated Quercetin, Melatonin, Proteolytic Enzymes, Magnesium Glycinate.
Dosage...depends on body size.
Once you get in touch with them, if she is not already in the hospital, have her go to one that is trusted. If the hospital wants to send her home as they sometimes do, don’t let them discharge her until her oxegen levels are normal for a couple days.
I have no idea if this is good advice. I only know that if my friend had not been discharged, he would be in a whole lot better shape than he is now in ICU and unable to talk. A second friend that was sent home was also rushed back in critical condition.
In symptomatic patients, monitoring with home pulse oximetry is recommended. Baseline or ambulatory desaturation < 94% should prompt hospital admission.I would get her to the hospital with that rapid and unexplained SpO2 drop! That is a very concerning low saturation number. Any other symptoms?
She needs to go to ER.
When mine went that low I had a pulmonary embolism.
Do you know what she is using to test her SpO2? If she is using a cell phone w/ app, many of those are very inaccurate. I wouldn’t trust a non-medical device reading if my health is of concern. I would double check with a clinic, though, just to be sure. If she was at 89, she’d be feeling winded probably.
The first time I got my new phone and it told me I had an 86 O2, I was like whaaat? The heartbeat sensor works good, though.
A normal pulse ox is 98 to 100 consistently below 95 is moderately unhealthy. below 90 is dangerous and she should go the the ER or hospital she needs o2 and perhaps a nebulizer
She needs to ask for a nebulizer treatment with Symbicort or some inhalant with prednosone or dexamethasone.
Be sure to let the probe stabilize after a period of time — don’t use the initial reading.
Home pulse oximeters are subject to false readings caused by motion. Be sure to keep the hand and fingers completely still while reading.
Consider getting a recording pulse oximeter which will record your data at one second intervals. I use one for my sleep apnea. You can get excellent data during sleep and observe trends. You get almost 29,000 readings during 8 hours of sleep. My “O2Ring” provides summary stats for your sleep period. Here is one sample mobile app sleep report (not my data shown here — this is a bad report!).
Anxiety can cause reading.
the variation on an oximeter from 94 to 89 is nothing to worry about, mine prior to Covid would often vary that much and more depending on time of day and prior activity has a lot to do with it-if it was going down from say 94 to 69 then I would be concerned but you are talking 5% and that is within the error rate of most of the cheap oximeters out there. Know this that 95% of people who think they have Covid do not as evidenced by testing
Below 90 is a danger sign, go to the ER. She needs more tests and an x ray.
Unless of course if you live in Denver or Albuquerque, where 90 is low normal.
Does she have asthma? She might need prednisone etc. Lots of viruses out there, not to mention bacterial pneumonia.
Without more information...
Age, other issues, etc. it is impossible to get good advice. Except...if her readings are that low over multiple readings it sounds like it will be worth getting checked out.
What can YOU do? Not much. I am assuming she is an adult. They are probably dealing with it—which is why they aren’t answering. Say a prayer, send them a text, and go to bad.
You have given our information that cannot be interpreted nor understood without a proper history and physical examination. Further there are many people now giving you medical advice without the benefit of medical training.
Here is the best advice. Of your daughter is feeling ill she needs to be seen immediately the pulse ox could be spuriously low or high. There is no reason to ask people who you do not know what to do for medical advice. Including me.
However as a board certified physician there is only one safe answer. Immediate evaluation.
There is an awful lot of misinformation on this thread both on CoVId and other issues. So please advise your daughter to seek medical attention if feeling ill. It really is just that simple.
Anything below 90 is an emergency. Respond accordingly
A visit to a *large* hospital’s ER might be worthwhile.