frightfiction Chapter 166 Malaria
Chapter 166 Malaria
"Butler Lai Fu, where are the other patients?" Bai Yan, who was standing aside, said a little boredly when she saw that she was of no use.
"They are all inside. Please come in, two doctors." Lai Fu called the servants and stared at the two men who took the thunder pills. If there was any situation, he asked them to report it immediately.
Xu Qingyi and Bai Yan followed Lai Fu into the inner room, where they saw several beds with four patients lying on them. Some had pale faces, some had difficulty breathing, and some were already unconscious. The entire inner room was filled with a dull atmosphere that made people feel suffocated.
The four patients' conditions were of different severity, and it seemed that the experimental subjects had been prepared for them long ago.
"One for each of you. After checking them, check on the two seriously ill patients, and then discuss with each other." Xu Qingyi pointed to the patients in front of him and said to Bai Yan.
Bai Yan nodded, and the two of them walked towards a bed respectively.
The two of them first treated patients with mild symptoms. For some reason, all four of them were men.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Xu Qingyi approached a young man who looked to be about 27 or 28 years old. She stepped forward and looked him up and down and asked.
It was a hot summer day, but the man was covered with a thick quilt and was shivering all over.
"Chills, accompanied by headache, whole...body aches and fatigue." The eldest brother said with chattering teeth.
"Apart from this, are there any other symptoms?" Xu Qingyi felt the man's pulse, then frowned slightly. The pulse was stringy and slowly became loud and rapid.
However, as his pulse changed, the man gradually stopped shivering and his body seemed to be warming up.
"Here it comes. After the chills, there will be a high fever for a certain period of time, and then a lot of sweating." As the man spoke, he weakly kicked away the quilt covering himself.
However, at this time, the man's face turned red. Xu Qingyi touched the man's forehead and obviously noticed that the man's temperature was recovering very quickly. At this time, it was already over 38 degrees, and the temperature continued to rise.
High fever is accompanied by heavy sweating.
Alternating cold and heat can easily disrupt the physiological balance of the human body and lead to various diseases.
Chinese medicine often says, "Cold evil can hurt people, and heat evil can also hurt people." This is the reason.
Even if the disease is cured, the person has sustained damage to his foundation and will need some time to recuperate in the future.
"When did the disease break out? How many days has it been?" Xu Qingyi asked.
"It's been three days since the attack."
"Hey! Why do you have so many red spots on your body again? Are you bitten by mosquitoes?" Suddenly, Xu Qingyi saw that the man had many small red spots on his arms. She seemed to understand something and asked with her eyes slightly lit up.
"Every day we go out to herd cattle, horses and sheep. There is nothing much on the grassland except mosquitoes, insects, rats and ants.
As long as we herders go out to graze, we will naturally be stung all over. "The man took the tea that Xu Qingyi handed to him, and he drank it all in one breath, panting.
"So, the three of them are also herders, and they often go out to the prairie to graze, right?" Xu Qingyi asked again to confirm.
"Not bad."
"Is there any pattern to your illness? For example, high fever occurs at a certain time in the morning, and chills occur at another time."
"Doctor, if you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed it. I didn't have it at first, but in the past two days, the high fever and chills have been occurring at midnight and noon." The man thought for a moment and said.
"Butler Lai Fu, please help me go out and check if most of the patients infected with this disease are herders, and if they also have a lot of red spots on their bodies from mosquito bites.
The most important thing is to investigate whether there is any pattern or fixed time for each onset of the disease. "After Xu Qingyi figured out what the disease was, she quickly instructed Lai Fu who was waiting on the side.
Lai Fu also heard what Xu Qingyi asked the patient. Judging from her expression, she should have found some clues or patterns about the disease.
"Okay, I'll order someone to investigate right away." Lai Fu went out immediately and asked someone to investigate what Xu Qingyi said.
"I know what disease you have. Let me see if other people's conditions are the same as yours, and then we can compare them with each other." Xu Qingyi nodded at the man.
"Doctor, can my disease be cured?" When the man heard that the doctor in front of him knew what his disease was, he showed great joy on his face and asked hurriedly.
He had lived in Youzhou for more than twenty years, so he naturally knew that this disease was very strange. Less than one in ten people who suffered from this disease could be cured. Most of those who suffered from this disease could not be cured and could only endure for a while, but then died in pain.
This time someone told him what the disease was, and the man's heart was filled with hope. He just hoped that the doctor in front of him could cure his strange disease.
“Knowing what disease you have, and knowing the cause and source, I can naturally cure it.
Let me check on the other two first." Xu Qingyi nodded gently, and the man's heart was slightly calmed by the steady voice.
Afterwards, Xu Qingyi walked over to the two seriously ill men and checked their symptoms. Not only were their symptoms exactly the same as the previous man, but they also had many red spots on their bodies from mosquito bites.
"Qingyi, you should have figured it out!" After checking the four people, Bai Yan asked Xu Qingyi with a slightly solemn expression.
"Yes, it should be malaria." Xu Qingyi nodded.
Malaria is a parasitic disease caused by infection with Plasmodium, common types of which include Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale, Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium falciparum. The main routes of infection include bites of Anopheles mosquitoes carrying Plasmodium, blood transmission and mother-to-child transmission.
Symptoms include chills, high fever, sweating, headache, limb pain and fatigue. After a certain incubation period, the symptoms will recur. In severe cases, malaria can cause complications such as anemia, hypoglycemia, acute renal failure or acute pulmonary edema.
Xu Qingyi had just examined and questioned them, and was certain that the malaria they suffered from was not malignant malaria, otherwise, the disease would not have occurred regularly.
No wonder there is almost no cure for this disease.
People with malaria have pulses and symptoms that are like those of a cold. Doctors will naturally prescribe antipyretic drugs, but these drugs are not suitable for the condition and cannot kill the malarial parasites in the body.
Later, various symptoms and underlying diseases appeared. The doctor naturally thought that the condition had worsened or that there were other symptoms, so he prescribed other medicines. This cycle repeated itself, and the patient's health became worse and worse. In the end, the doctor could only watch the patient die.