Medical road ahead

"You're drinking a little too much water now."

The next day, when Qiao Tan came to check Qiao Huan's ward, he suddenly noticed this problem and frowned, "Your body is still a little swollen, and your urine output is small, so it's best to control the amount of water you drink within the previous day. It is advisable to have a daily urine output of +500ML, and when the urine output increases, you can moderately increase the amount of water you drink.”

"Uh, but how do I know how much I peed the day before?" Qiao Huan scratched her cheek.

Qiao Tan immediately called the nurse on duty, told her the situation, and then told her to measure Qiao Huan's urine volume every day and make a record.

Seeing this, Qiao Huan said with some embarrassment: "I need the nurse to help measure the urine volume, will it cause trouble for them?"

Qiao Tan shook his head with a smile, "This is their job, besides, it's just a urine test, and they have done even more troublesome things."

"It's not easy being a doctor and nurse." Qiao Huan said sincerely.

Qiao Tan continued with a smile: "Because your edema has not dissipated, and your blood pressure is still high, I will limit salt in terms of diet. If you are not used to eating, just bring it up, and I will give you more food. Add some vinegar, sugar, shallot, mustard to whet your appetite."

"Can you increase the chili? I'm not afraid of the lack of salt, but I can't be less spicy." Qiao Huan mumbled.

"Haha! No problem."

Qiao Tan laughed and nodded, "It seems that you are a native of City C."

Qiao Huan also laughed, and asked, "Wouldn't eating spicy food be harmful?"

Qiao Tan said: "That's not true. Now you mainly eat low-salt and low-fat food, and high-quality low-protein food."

"Doctor, I want to ask, you are always mentioning high-quality protein, so, which foods are high-quality protein?"

A patient in the same room suddenly asked a question.

Qiao Tan turned to look at her and introduced, "In short, animal protein is high-quality protein, while plant-based protein is not high-quality protein."

"Why? Why do I think plant-based protein is better?" the man asked again.

Qiao Tan explained: "Because plant protein contains a lot of purine bases, excessive intake will increase the burden on the kidneys, so kidney patients like you should eat more animal protein such as milk, eggs, fish, and lean meat. Under the premise of total protein intake, high-quality protein supplements can be sorted by soybean protein, fish and shrimp, eggs, milk, and livestock meat.”

"Oh, I understand." The man Xiaowu nodded.

Qiao Tan went on to say: "Calorie supplementation is also very important. Only under the premise of sufficient energy supply, low-protein foods can be fully utilized by the human body. Therefore, when our nutrition department matches your diet, we will focus on choosing high-calorie foods. Low-protein foods, such as potatoes, lotus root starch, vermicelli, taro, sweet potato, yam, pumpkin, etc., and these foods can be used as the main food even after you are discharged from the hospital.”

"It's all things I don't like to eat." The man frowned.

"puff!"

Qiao Tan laughed, "Who told you that you were sick? After you recover, you can choose your favorite food."

"correct!"

Qiao Tan walked to that person's hospital bed, checked her hospital log, and said, "You seem to be in the stage of declining glomerular filtration rate. During this period, potassium retention must be prevented."

"How to prevent it?" The man wondered.

After reading her diary, Qiao Tan said: "Dr. Sun should be treating your problem, but you can also pay attention to your diet and try to avoid some high-potassium foods, such as meat, milk, and cheese. , fresh fruits and vegetables, raisins, etc. Among them, the most potassium-rich foods are soybeans, spinach, potatoes and lettuce, and animal offal and seafood should also be fasted.”

"It's over, I can't live this day."

Hearing so many food minefields, the man spread his hands and lay on his back on the bed.

Qiao Tan comforted: "If you really like to eat meat, you can boil the meat in water before eating, but just don't drink the soup from which the meat has been boiled."

"Really?"

Hearing this, the nearly sixty-year-old patient sat up again, begging Qiao Tan coquettishly like a child: "Then can the doctor add another meat dish to my three meals a day? Please, please!"

Qiao Tan couldn't help laughing, "Okay, I'll arrange an ant climbing tree for you at noon."

"Okay, okay!"

Everyone applauded, and Qiao Huan said, "Put more peppers."

Qiao Tan looked at her and said with a smile, "I'll give you a bottle of chili sauce alone, is that okay?"

"Thank you, Dr. Joe."

Qiao Huan hurriedly thanked him, and while several people in the room were discussing the food in the hospital, he quietly pulled Qiao Tan over and asked in a low voice, "Does the doctor Qin who came to check my endocrine yesterday know you well?"

"Ah? Ah!"

Qiao Tan was taken aback for a moment, then nodded, "What's wrong?"

Qiao Huan glanced around again, and lowered his voice, "Then you can ask him for me, can I buy a kidney from a formal way abroad?"

"what?"

Qiao Tan was stunned, but was shocked immediately, "Buying a kidney? It's illegal to buy a kidney!"

"I know, I know."

Qiao Huan nodded sharply, and said, "That's why I want to buy from foreign channels."

Hearing this, Qiao Tan frowned and remained silent, carefully observing the slight expression on Qiao Huan's face to determine whether she was joking or serious.

"No way?"

Seeing Qiao Tan staring at him without speaking, Qiao Huan asked anxiously.

"How did you think of asking this?" Qiao Tan asked back.

Qiao Huan said truthfully: "I heard what Lao Zhong said. He said that there is a doctor named Qin in our hospital who can buy kidneys through regular foreign channels."

After she finished speaking, she pointed to the patient on the opposite side of the bed with her chin.

"Then where did he hear this rumor?" Qiao Tan asked again.

Qiao Huan shook his head, "He said he heard it from other people. It seems that the story has spread. Don't you know?"

Qiao Tan said sharply, "This is a rumor! Don't believe it."

"Well, I see."

Qiao Huan nodded hastily and didn't ask any more questions.

Qiao Tan thought for a while, and then said, "If someone mentions this again, you can ask me where he heard about it."

"Okay, no problem." Qiao Huan nodded solemnly.

Qiao Tan then slowed down his tone and said to her, "It's too early for you to get a kidney transplant! Maybe you don't need to think about it in your life. Other patients are in the same situation as you, so don't be disturbed by their emotions."

"I'll listen to you."

Qiao Huan nodded again, feeling that what Qiao Tan said was right. She is now at a watershed in her condition, and if she is not careful, she will get worse. But again, as long as she works hard, she can be discharged from the hospital soon.

Thinking of this, she no longer paid attention to the pessimistic voices around her, but devoted herself to her own treatment.

"Buy a kidney from abroad? Return it through regular channels? Isn't this nonsense?"

After leaving the ward, Qiao Tan was still brooding over the matter, but he just couldn't figure out why such rumors came out, and it was still related to Qin Xiao.

"Then Qin Xiao himself knows about this?"

"You are not a thyroid nodule, but a swollen lymph node. I suggest you go to the infection department for examination now to make a diagnosis as soon as possible."

On the other hand, after checking an outpatient, Qin Xiao found out that the patient did not have a thyroid disease.

"Department of infection? Why do you need to go to the department of infection for swollen lymph nodes? Did I have some infectious disease?"

The young female patient looked terrified.