Chapter 60 Suspected Cholera Appears
The door of the Li family is open, the house is very small, and you can see the whole room at a glance. Three people in this family are constantly vomiting and diarrhea, feeling listless and dying.
Because there was no toilet, the two old men even ignored the ugly look and pulled it into the basin.
Chen Chun quickly explained: "Uncle, we are college students of Zhijiang Medical University. Sorry to disturb us. We think that there is probably an infectious disease in your area. I want to investigate it."
Mrs. Li didn't even have the strength, and no matter who entered their house, she didn't want to ask at all, just waved her hand weakly:
"Save us, we're almost out of reach."
Chen Chun held back the smell and looked into the basin. He saw that the stool pulled out looked like water, and the color was like rice slurry, and the vomit had turned into yellow water.
The whole room was filled with a strong smell of feces. Chen Chun endured the feeling of vomiting, observed the other two people's feces and hurriedly retreated.
After Zhan Aiju and the others came out, the patients in the four families had a comprehensive analysis and found that they all had one thing in common:
The stool is very severe and vomiting, and the stool is like rice and water. People who have had seafood before they have eaten.
When everyone talked about it, they immediately thought of three possibilities:
One is enteritis caused by food poisoning; the second is bacterial dysentery; the third is serious, cholera, the legendary disease No. 2.
Chen Chun believes that bacterial dysentery is very likely, and Shen Huishan believes that food poisoning cannot be ruled out if there is a history of food contact with the same type.
When Chen Xia shook his head when he heard this, he thought that these students had a good grasp of theoretical knowledge, but unfortunately they lacked clinical experience and had problems with the diagnosis of the disease.
"No, if it is bacterial dysentery, it usually has abdominal pain and severe internal dysfunction, small amount of feces, and blood samples of pus and blood. Moreover, the vomiting will not be so violent and spray-like, which does not match these patients.
If you are poisoned by seafood, it is usually mainly parahemolytic Vibrio infection, so the incubation period is very short, and vomiting and diarrhea will occur immediately after eating it. The stool is usually washed with watery or pus and bloody stool, and it is accompanied by fever.
Sister, you are talking about frequent diarrhea, vomiting is spray-like, stool water-like, and the color is like rice slurry. Then the two diagnoses you just mentioned cannot be valid."
Chen Chun was a little surprised how his younger brother knew so much medical knowledge? Did he really teach a lot when his father was alive? But it was not the time to consider these things at this time, so he quickly asked:
"What disease do you think is more likely?"
Chen Xia looked at the pants fluttering in the wind by the well and replied firmly:
"cholera."
"Cholera?" Several people immediately took a breath of air conditioning.
Chen Chun hurriedly asked everyone to throw away all the food in his hands, and strictly prohibited Chen Qiu and Chen Dong from reaching their hands into their mouths.
Shen Huishan panicked, "What should I do? If it's really cholera, they just clean the patient's pants and bed sheets contaminated by vomiting, and the river channel is polluted. Oh, you see, this well water is still their drinking water source, and that's going to cause trouble."
The ancient city of Yuezhou did not popularize tap water in 1980, especially in this old house area, where everyone has been drinking well water since ancient times.
Whether it is bacterial dysentery or cholera, it is transmitted through fecal orifice through contaminated water sources. At this time, controlling drinking water sources is a very important thing.
If you want to die, there are still many people next to the well washing the patient's stool-contaminated pants.
Chen Chun rushed over immediately, "Listen to me, don't wash your pants by the well first, and don't drink well water anymore. There is a big problem with the well water on your side."
Several aunts didn't believe it: "Little girl, this well has been around for hundreds of years, so there will be no problem."
Shen Huishan was so anxious that she stamped her feet: "Aunts, so many people vomited and had diarrhea not only because of seafood, but also because of your cleaning like this, bacteria and viruses have penetrated into it with the contaminated water. This water is toxic."
"poisonous?"
Now these aunts are nervous. People don’t understand the bacteria, but everyone understands the poison.
The aunts were anxious: "Oh, what should I do? What should I do?"
Chen Xia quickly stood up: "The matter is urgent. Now we are going to report to a hospital. Which hospital is the nearest one here?"
An aunt pointed to a building not far away and said, "The nearest one over there is the Second Hospital."
Chen Chun and his friends didn't care about being polite and hurried to the nearest Second Hospital.
The Second Hospital of Yuezhou is two blocks away, but the hospital is not large in size, with about 200 employees in the hospital, which is far inferior to the Fourth Hospital.
After Chen Chun and his friends arrived, they immediately found the Medical Administration Department of the Second Hospital, reported the situation they saw in "Wangziqiao Alley" to Huang Liuxiong, the head of the Medical Administration Department, and also expressed their suspicions.
"cholera!"
If Huang Liuxiong had a little perfunctory attitude towards these college students at the beginning, he would jump up in a hurry when he heard that it might be cholera, and even his voice broke.
Older doctors know the dangers of cholera and have seen it with their own eyes. It is a malignant infectious disease that will kill many people.
"Can you be sure?"
Chen Chun said dissatisfiedly: "Chief Huang, of course we cannot be sure. This requires further stool microscopy or bacterial culture to confirm the diagnosis. We came here this time to ask you to send people there quickly. The water source there has been polluted, and more people will be infected soon."
Huang Liuxiong's cold sweat came out. While saying sorry to Chen Chun and the others, he quickly ran to the dean's office.
Chen Chun couldn't care about so much, so he took everyone to the toilet to clean his hands and other bare skin, and then took a group of people back to Kezhen as quickly as possible.
The outside world is terrible.
In the office of the president of the Second Hospital, the president Wang Mengqi felt his scalp numb when he heard this.
Cholera is an amazing super plague in this era, with extremely strong contagiousness and a high mortality rate. In this era of lack of medical treatment and medicine, it is really a life-threatening person.
"Old Huang, do you mean, how many college students came to report? Is there any suspected cholera in Wangziqiao Alley?"
Huang Sanxiong swallowed and nodded hard.
Wang Mengqi became angry as soon as he heard this, "Then why are you still standing there? Hurry up and ask the doctors in the infectious department of the internal medicine to take samples immediately."
Huang Sanxiong felt aggrieved. He just got the report and went to the dean's office immediately. There was no delay at all, but the leader always had the qualification to be unreasonable, and there was no way.
Two hours later, news came, with high suspicion of cholera.
Now Wang Mengqi couldn't sit still and immediately reported to the Director of the Health Bureau. The Director reported to the Deputy Mayor in charge. The alley of Wangziqiao was completely blocked.
Chapter completed!