Coronavirus Testing and Treatments
Together the Kidney Charities Together Group [KCT] have created a downloadable PDF guide to give an overview of the treatment options. This guide aims to help explain what Covid-19 treatments you might expect to receive. summarising treatment types, who is eligible, and when and how the treatments should be administered.
Please click here to download your handy guide to treatments
What do you need to know about coronavirus testing?
The kidney Charities Together Group have provided an update on treatment options for kidney patients with Covid19. This document includes guidance on when to get a PCR test, what to do if you have a positive PCR test result and other helpful links and resources available in Wales and across the UK.
Please click here to read the full Kidney Charities Together document
You should take lateral flow tests if you do not have COVID-19 symptoms. People with symptoms of Covid-19, including headache, sore throat, high temperature, a new continuous cough, or a loss or change in their sense of taste or smell, should get a PCR test and self-isolate while waiting for their test result as usual.
Check your symptoms here – https://gov.wales/check-your-symptoms-see-if-you-need-coronavirus-medical-help
On the 25th of Jan 2022, Dr Mike Stephens, Consultant Transplant Surgeon at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, answered your questions relating to the latest COVID treatments including neutralising monoclonal antibodies in a live Q&A session in the Kidney Wales Community Facebook Group.
Read the news item here: https://www.kidneywales.cymru/news/2022/02/04/12274/
The video can be viewed on the Kidney Wales YouTube page here