medical road high rise

Chapter 499 Leech
Chapter 502 Leech
However, Qin Feng immediately ruled out lung diseases, such as tuberculosis, for the patients. Most of these diseases are older patients, because older age will lead to poorer body resistance.

The patient was just a six or seven-year-old boy. His development was still normal, and it was unlikely to be these chronic diseases.

After entering the consulting room, Qin Feng still asked about the condition of the patient's mother.

"When did your child start coughing?"

Because the patient is coughing all the time, Qin Feng can't listen to the lung sound and heart sound at all. For respiratory diseases, if he can't hear the sound, it will still have a great impact on the diagnosis.

The patient's mother told the story again, that is, she went to pick up the child and found that the child had a cough.

"Have you had similar symptoms before?" Qin Feng asked.

"No, my child has a strong immune system since he was a child, and he rarely even catches a cold."

"Then do you have any genetic diseases in your family?" Qin Feng asked.

"No."

"Then has your child been anywhere recently? Or eaten anything?"

"Last week, before school, I took my child to the city where his father worked."

"Have you ever been to the suburbs or eaten seafood such as sashimi?" Qin Feng asked step by step.

"I have been to the forest park in the city, and we camped there for one night." The patient's mother said.

"Is it a parasite?" Qin Feng frowned. Many parasitic infections can cause hemoptysis, especially mucous membrane bleeding, which is relatively common in parasitic diseases.

Qin Feng picked up the flashlight, asked the patient to open his mouth, and checked the patient's throat.

The patient's oral cavity and rhinitis mucosa showed diffuse congestion, and there was obvious edema on the throat wall, which is a typical manifestation of throat inflammation.

But Qin Feng always felt that something was wrong. If it was just an ordinary throat infection, the patient would not be able to cough up blood.

Soon, Qin Feng discovered what was wrong, that is, there was no exudate in the patient's throat except for edema and congestion.

If it is a person with bacterial infection, yellow-white point-like exudate can be seen in the center of the lymphatic follicles on the throat wall.

Moreover, Qin Feng saw many fine and small blood spots on the patient's throat wall, and part of the blood that the patient coughed up came from these bleeding spots.

As for the appearance of bleeding points, it means that the patient's throat wall has been damaged to a certain extent.

In the case of disease, such densely scattered small bleeding spots rarely appear, either because the entire skin and mucous membranes are shed, or large pieces of cell tissue are shed and lost blood. Such fine bleeding spots are generally caused by foreign objects.

For example, parasites crawling into the patient's mouth, or parasites attached to the trachea.

Qin Feng arranged a bronchoscopy for the patient, but before Qin Feng finished his order, the patient coughed violently again.

One of the patient's eyes turned blood red at a speed visible to the naked eye. Qin Feng looked at the patient's reddened eyes and his face tightened.

"Doctor, my child's eyes are..."

"Don't worry, it's because the cough is too severe. The blood vessels around the eyeballs and around the eyes burst and caused bleeding, and it will heal slowly later." Qin Feng comforted.

The blood vessels around the eyes belong to the capillaries, which are very small, the amount of bleeding will not be too large, and its regenerative ability is very strong, so don’t worry, just use a towel to apply heat, and the hyperemia of the eyeballs will usually subside within 48 hours.

Hearing Qin Feng's explanation, the patient's mother also breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that the patient did not continue to cough, Qin Feng quickly issued a checklist, and then checked the patient.

"Be patient, if you feel uncomfortable for a while, don't pull the tube, just take a deep breath." Qin Feng told the patient.

The six or seven-year-old patient, who still had subjective consciousness, nodded.

Qin Feng also vaccinated the patient in advance, because the pain of bronchoscopy is not the pain, but the suffocation. No matter how skilled the doctor is, this is unavoidable.

Because the suffocation is caused by the equipment, if the equipment is not updated, this will always happen.

After the patient was ready, Qin Feng carefully inserted the bronchoscope through the patient's nostril, and then slowly pushed it in. The patient's complexion gradually became painful as the bronchoscope went deeper, but the patient resisted and did not stop. no struggle.

Qin Feng quickly pushed the mirror down into the trachea, then stopped and looked at the computer beside him.

On the computer, the patient's tracheal wall is continuously shrinking with breathing, but during the shrinking process, a black shadow is also moving, and even directly hit the bronchoscope several times.

The mother of the patient on the side was taken aback, "Why is there such a thing in my child's body?"

"Did you drink raw water outside when you were camping?" Qin Feng did not answer the patient's mother's question.

"Drinking mountain spring water, because many people said that the mountain spring water there is very sweet and delicious, so we tried to drink a few sips." The patient's mother said.

"That means there are insect eggs or larvae in the raw water, and your child drank it directly." Qin Feng concluded.

"Didn't it mean that our stomach acid can corrode everything? Can't parasites corrode?" the patient's mother wondered.

"The strong corrosion of stomach acid is only for food, but most parasites are resistant to pH above 2.0, and stomach acid is only 1-1.5 ph. If stomach acid can kill parasites, there will be no people infected with intestinal parasites. "Qin Feng said, "And the parasites in your child's body should be leeches."

"A leech? Can it enter the human body?" The patient's mother showed a frightened expression.

In their time, leeches were the representative of blood-sucking insects, especially in rice fields, and basically everyone was afraid of them.

Sometimes after laboring in paddy fields, there will be many leeches attached to the legs, and they need to be removed one by one with salt or fire, but there will still be bleeding spots of different sizes on the legs after removal.

"The leech is fine, just take it out." Qin Feng said.

Because parasitic leeches in the throat are the best situation, and the habits of leeches are relatively easy to solve.

But if it is not leeches, but other parasites, it may be accompanied by other more serious complications, and some may even directly invade the lungs, liver, and brain tissue.

Qin Feng put the tweezers deep into the patient's throat, then found the position where the black shadow was, clamped the black shadow clamp, and slowly took it out.

Seeing the appearance of the black shadow, Qin Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's indeed a leech." Qin Feng put the removed leech on the surgical tray. The leech kept twisting and even curled up.

"But the water is obviously very clean. I saw many people drinking it. Why didn't other people get infected with parasites?" the patient's mother didn't understand.

(End of this chapter)