In the emergency center of Kyoto Hospital, even the chairs in the aisle were filled with patients.
This is not a case of food poisoning in the true sense, because the patient is not poisoned, but a food-borne parasite, which mainly lives in people's cerebrospinal fluid, causing headaches, dizziness, fever, neck stiffness, facial nerve paralysis and other symptoms.
Severe cases can cause dementia and even death. This parasite is angiostrongylus larvae hiding in snails.
"That's not right, director, we also ate this flavor of snails yesterday and had the same symptoms, but others gave us medicine and we were fine. It shouldn't be possible for this kind of symptoms to get better so quickly, right?" Xia Rusheng blurted out.
said.
"How is it possible? After angiostrongylus is diagnosed, drug treatment is mainly used. Treatment for each patient takes an average of two to three weeks, and the cost is generally around 3,000 yuan. Severe patients may need longer time, and
After recovery, you may still have headaches and sequelae of dementia. If you were infected with Angiostrongylus, how could you recover so quickly?" Zhou Changqi naturally did not believe it.
"Director, we didn't lie to you. Didn't we go to Shangguan Reservoir yesterday? We bought some flavored snails at Huangsidian on the way. As you know, we like to eat the lucky snails from Huangsidian the most. In the end, we ate them at night
All the people were infected, and the three of us were the most serious. We suffered from fever, headache, and dizziness. If it hadn't been for others' rescue, we might not have been able to come back smoothly this time," Xia Rusheng said.
"It's true. Director, at that time we really thought it was just simple food poisoning. In fact, I had thought a long time ago that snail food poisoning is usually caused by angiostrongylus contamination. But people just brought detoxification water over
, I was fine after drinking it. The symptoms of fever, headache and dizziness were relieved at that time." Yang Lingle also said.
Su Ziting also quickly said: "That potion is really effective. I felt better after taking it."
Yang Lingle was usually very stable and would not team up with Xia Rusheng and Su Ziting to deceive people. It was even more impossible to deceive people on this kind of thing, so although Zhou Changqi was a little unbelievable, he still believed it.
"Do you know what medicine the other party gave you?" Zhou Changqi asked.
"It was a girl from their class. He didn't show up in our tent at all. Maybe he showed up, but we were too dazed to see him at the time. The next morning, when we wanted to say thank you in person, he had already run out.
Went to buy sweet potatoes. They were still playing in Shangguan Reservoir today, and I heard they were going to bake sweet potatoes for dinner," Yang Lingle said.
"Girls in the class? Are those students?" Zhou Changqi asked.
"Yes. He is a student at the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is still a freshman. I heard that the student who administered the medicine was very powerful, and he joined the medical team of a well-known professor in the Affiliated Hospital of the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine when he was still a freshman." Yang Lingle added.
Yang Lingle told all the information she knew.
"It's nothing new to join the medical team as a freshman. Chinese medicine universities are different from us who study Western medicine. They pay great attention to teaching by precept and example. After all, a good Chinese medicine doctor cannot be taught in four or five years. They attach great importance to that.
A student who has been studying for a bachelor's degree, a master's degree and a Ph.D. in eight years." Zhou Changqi said.
"But the medicine in the hands of that student was really very effective. We were fine after taking it. By the way, several of their classmates were tricked by us. We once exchanged a box of flavored snails with them for grilled fish. That grilled fish
The fish was really delicious. When we smelled the aroma, we ran to their barbecue place and couldn't help but want to try it. They gave us a box of grilled fish, and we gave them a box of flavored snails. The result
Several people who ate the flavored snails got food poisoning. They found us after they discovered that a girl in their class had food poisoning," Yang Lingle said.
"Is there really such an effective medicine? Can you contact them now? I think this antidote should be a newly developed Chinese patent medicine at their University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Wait, let me make a call first.
"Although he is a Western medicine practitioner, Zhou Changqi still has many acquaintances at the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
As a result, the reply there made Zhou Changqi look very strange. The Affiliated Hospital of the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine also received many patients with snail food poisoning, and it was basically diagnosed that the symptoms were caused by angiostrongylus infection. They are now using the same method as Kyoto
The hospital basically uses the same drug treatment methods. When Zhou Changqi asked them if they had any specific drugs for treating Angiostrongylus, the other party seemed a little surprised. Apparently they knew nothing about this so-called specific drug.
Zhou Changqi hung up the phone and asked: "Yang Lingle, you are the most stable among the three of you. At this critical moment, can you lie to me? Were you really infected with Angiostrongylus last night?"
"I'm not sure whether we were infected with Angiostrongylus, but we definitely ate the flavored snails from Huangsidian and had the same symptoms. And it was indeed cured by taking the student's antidote." Yang Lingle said seriously.
said.
"Can you contact them?" Zhou Changqi asked.
Yang Lingle nodded: "I left the phone number of their class monitor. We plan to go to the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine when we have time to express our gratitude to the lifesaver in person."
Zhou Changqi nodded: "If you are really infected with Angiostrongylus and your symptoms are so severe, if it hadn't been for them, waiting for you to be discovered and then sent to the hospital in Kyoto, I'm afraid it would be a disaster. Our hospital alone
Among the patients we have received, there are more than a dozen cases with very serious symptoms. Even if all these dozen cases are rescued, I estimate that some of them will definitely have sequelae in the future. I will be lucky if they don't become dementia."
Su Ziting patted her chest and took a long breath: "It seems that we are really blessed. If you survive a disaster, you will be lucky. It seems that my true destiny is about to appear."
Zhou Changqi chuckled. He was too lazy to pay attention to Su Ziting and said to Yang Lingle: "Contact the squad leader and see if you can invite that student to our hospital. If this continues, our emergency center will not be able to operate normally in the next few months.
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"He is a student at the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a member of the medical team of the Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine." Yang Lingle reminded.
"I don't care where he comes from. As long as I can invite people over, cure all these patients and send them away. If nothing happens, I'll be fine. With so many patients crowded in our emergency center, maybe something will happen."
Here comes the thing." Zhou Changqi frowned as he looked at the hospital corridors filled with patients. It was difficult for medical staff to walk through them.
The emergency center was already very busy, and with so many extra emergency patients sent in at once, the emergency center naturally became chaotic.
