To be honest, this kind of small talk may not necessarily cause resentment among patients.
After all, listening to the doctors and nurses chatting and gossiping, they can also learn some interesting things from them. Moreover, the doctors and nurses are so calm and leisurely, does it mean that things are not as bad as they imagined?
Slowly, their nervous mood relaxed a lot.
Gastroenterology.
Wu Xiaofu's testing work was the first to start, and the results were also the first to come out.
On the one hand, this is because Wu Xiaofu has been in close contact with patients and is at the greatest risk of infection. On the other hand, there are too many people who care about Wu Xiaofu and are asking how Wu Xiaofu is doing.
At this time, outside the hospital, Wu Jinglue and the others basically knew about the Ebola virus infection in the First Affiliated Hospital.
I originally thought that the Ebola virus appeared in the Department of Gastroenterology and would not affect Wu Xiaofu, but soon I heard that Wu Xiaofu actually went for a consultation and became a direct contact.
After knowing this situation, how could the people of the Wu family not be worried, and they hurriedly started to inquire from all aspects. Fortunately, Wu Xiaofu sent them a message saying that there was no problem. Knowing that Wu Xiaofu was in good condition now, they felt more at ease.
But after the pressure from all aspects came down, Wu Xiaofu's testing work here was finally somewhat different from that of others.
The results come out faster than others.
"Feminine!"
Wu Xiaofu looked at his results and felt relieved. After all, this was the Ebola virus. Even if he was physically strong and mentally strong, if he contracted it, he would still have to shed his skin.
However, it may be that because he is physically strong and mentally strong, he is not so easily infected.
"Excuse me, Director Li."
Director Li shook his head, "What's the trouble? I also know the specific process. It's all your credit for being able to detect the Ebola virus so early this time and carry out prevention and treatment in advance.
Speaking of which, I am here to send you the results, and I also want to ask for your opinion on some things. ”
Um?
Wu Xiaofu was a little confused and said, "Director Li, it's okay if you say so."
"Then I'll be blunt. I heard that Director Wu's research work is also very impressive. Since Director Wu was able to discover the Ebola virus immediately, he must have some ideas of his own.
What I mean is whether Director Wu can join the virus prevention and control team and help us start the prevention and control work together. ”
So, Wu Xiaofu thought that Director Li was going to say something, so he nodded, "It is my duty to do so."
foreign.
Qu Ying also just knew about this. Although it was the Internet age, it was dark over there, and she only saw the network push information when she got up early.
Qu Ying quickly made a video call to Wu Xiaofu. Seeing Wu Xiaofu's familiar face and healthy posture, Qu Ying relaxed a little.
"How's the situation over there?"
"At present, it seems that the prevention and treatment work is going well, but this patient has been hospitalized for nearly two weeks and has come into contact with many people, which is the family visit management system currently implemented.
Otherwise, we don’t know how many people have direct and indirect contact. Now various aspects are investigating, and it is estimated that the results will be available tomorrow. It will depend on how big the scale is.
My test results have just come out and there are no problems, so don’t worry. Next, I have to participate in the prevention and control work and end this matter as soon as possible. ”
this!
Qu Ying knew that Wu Xiaofu's test results were fine, and she was completely relieved, but when she heard that Wu Xiaofu wanted to participate in the prevention and control work, she became a little worried.
However, Qu Ying understood Wu Xiaofu's persistence and did not persuade her. She just said with a worried face, "Pay attention to your safety. If you have any problems, please tell me as soon as possible."
Later, Wu Xiaofu reported to his family, friends, teachers, etc. that he was safe.
After leaving the isolation room, which is the office of the department director, Wu Xiaofu came to the temporary prevention and control team and happened to see Peng Xia and Zhou Yunlai.
"These two belong to your department. You come to participate in our prevention and treatment work, and we have to provide you with adequate services. Dr. Peng and Dr. Zhou want to come to help, so I will simply leave them to you to take care of them."
Director Li said with a smile, Wu Xiaofu looked at the two of them and nodded. Yes, you need some help after all, and these two Wu Xiaofu are used to it.
Peng Xia and Zhou Yunlai already knew that Wu Xiaofu's test result was fine. They were both very excited at this time. They were even more excited when they thought of being able to fight side by side with Wu Xiaofu later.
"Director Li, how is the situation now?"
"The situation is not optimistic. Not to mention other things, just in this department, more than a dozen of them have prodromal symptoms. The test results should be available soon. I hope they don't get infected."
More than a dozen!
so much!
Wu Xiaofu frowned and looked at the list handed over by Director Li. When he saw Director Liao's name, his frown deepened. Director Li also noticed Wu Xiaofu's expression and spoke again.
"There are a total of seventeen people on the list who are suspected of being infected, nine of them are patients in Corey. Seven of these nine have gastrointestinal symptoms themselves, but the condition has worsened.
The remaining eight people are all under the care of Corey. None of them had symptoms before. The symptoms only appeared in the past two days or even today, which is very suspicious.
One of them is Director Liao, who had symptoms today, and Dr. Fang, the patient's attending physician. ”
He nodded. Although these seventeen people were only selected by Director Li's experience, Director Li was an expert in infectious diseases. If he could select seventeen people, I'm afraid half of them would not be spared.
And Director Liao.
Wu Xiaofu was also a little pity, he just hoped that the outcome would be good.
"What about other aspects?"
"Relevant departments have identified all the patients' direct and indirect contacts, including family members, doctors and patients' family members in the same ward, those who were discharged but not discharged, and people who were on the same flight as the patient when he returned, etc.
Now depending on the situation, I have also circled 19 people. ”
Nineteen! Seventeen!
The total number is thirty-six. Even if only half of the eighteen people are actually diagnosed, it is enough to cause a headache. After all, during the prevention and treatment process, there may be other infected people.
In some previous cases, it was unknown how many medical staff were infected during prevention and treatment work.
What a troublesome thing.
Wu Xiaofu had a headache thinking about all this. The most important thing is that the Chinese medical system had previously done more to prevent the Ebola virus. There were not many good ways to treat Ebola virus-infected patients.
The current treatment for these infected patients is mainly symptomatic.
Just like Huang Xiaojiang, he now has high fever, vomiting, and even signs of coma. This is a possibility that the human immune system may be compromised.
But Director Li didn't have many good solutions. He could only stop vomiting, cool down and other symptomatic treatments, and then some antibiotics and hormones.
This is almost the limit of coping.
When our body is invaded by a virus, it will quickly activate a series of defense mechanisms to resist the foreign enemy.
One important early response is the production and release of signaling proteins called interferons.
This magical protein is like a beacon on the battlefield. Once ignited, it will alert the immune system and trigger a strong immune response to fight against the virus.
However, viruses are not just waiting to be killed. Over time, many cunning viruses have gradually evolved the ability to decipher the immune-enhancing signals of interferon.
Like hackers who have mastered the password, they can easily bypass or destroy this line of defense, making the immune system's counterattack less effective.
Among many viruses, Ebola virus has a unique set of methods.
Its special mechanism is like casting a spell on the immune system, causing interferon to completely lose its ability to prevent viruses from multiplying in infected cells.
The first line of defense that was supposed to play a key role collapsed in this way, opening the door for the crazy expansion of the virus.
Because the body's first round of resistance failed to work, the Ebola virus was able to multiply unchecked.
These unchecked viruses flood throughout the body, attacking healthy cells.
At the same time, after sensing the threat, the immune system begins to fight back with all its strength, but at this time the reaction has gone far beyond the normal range and has fallen into a state of over-stress.
This excessive immune response is like an out-of-control fire. Not only does it fail to extinguish the virus, but it also causes serious damage to one's own organs.
Various organs were severely damaged in this fierce battle, and their functions gradually failed, eventually becoming one of the key factors in the death of Ebola virus disease.
Therefore, if you want to treat Ebola virus, you must first start from this aspect and prevent this mechanism of Ebola virus from taking effect.
Once this mechanism is blocked, the Ebola virus will no longer proliferate significantly and the immune system will be able to work normally. Only then will the body be able to defeat these invading molecules.
After all, the battle depends on the human body itself. All doctors can do is to deliver ammunition to the patient's body as much as possible to increase the body's winning rate against the virus.
However, it is obviously impossible to break through the genetic chain of the Ebola virus and solve the problem genetically in a short time.
These patients cannot afford to wait for this kind of protracted study.
Therefore, we have to focus on the present. In fact, there has always been an international consensus that Western medicine kills enemies, while Chinese medicine heals people.
In the concept of Western medicine, the human body is like a sophisticated and complex machine.
When a certain part of this "machine" fails, the first task is to pinpoint exactly which virus and bacteria caused the disease storm.
Once the source of the disease is identified, drugs specifically targeted at such bacteria or viruses must be used to start a life-or-death battle to completely eliminate them.
Only when these germs are eliminated can the disease be cured.
The main strategy followed by Western medicine in treating diseases can be said to be the ruthless "killing the enemy mode".
In order to effectively kill the raging bacteria and viruses, sometimes we even ignore the possible side effects of the drugs we use.
As a result, we often find ourselves in a distressing dilemma: although the operation seems to be a complete success, the patient unfortunately dies; or the original disease is cured, but other unforeseen diseases quietly appear. Advent.
It is undeniable that this method of treatment does have significant advantages to a certain extent.
It has saved countless lives with its scientific and rigorous diagnostic methods and highly targeted treatment plans.
However, its disadvantages cannot be ignored either. Especially in the face of newly emerging viruses, this method often seems inadequate.
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Since there are no specific drugs available for the new virus, doctors who are accustomed to "killing the enemy" as their main method suddenly lose the most critical weapon in their hands and can only fall into a helpless dilemma. They must either deal with it reluctantly or resign themselves to fate.
Whether they cope reluctantly or leave it to fate, the result may not be what patients and their families want to see.
Compared with Western medicine, Chinese medicine’s approach in this regard is actually more acceptable.
Because Chinese medicine emphasizes treating people rather than treating diseases. Just like on the battlefield, Western medicine focuses on the study of weapons, and Chinese medicine also emphasizes its own power.
Traditional Chinese medicine has always held a unique and profound viewpoint: human beings are not just machines with complex structures, but comprehensive living entities with many interrelated functions.
Generally speaking, if a person's body is in a completely normal state, his probability of suffering from disease is relatively low.
This is just like what the ancient sages said - "righteousness exists within, and evil cannot be done".
The "evil" mentioned here actually covers three levels, namely "internal evil", "external evil" and "neither internal nor external evil".
Among them, all kinds of diseases caused by bacteria and viruses are without exception classified into the category of "exogenous evil".
Because of this, when Chinese medicine practitioners deal with diseases such as external infections, they do not need to deliberately distinguish whether the factors causing the disease are viruses or bacteria.
There is no need to identify the specific type of virus or bacteria in detail.
Even the morphological characteristics and size of these pathogens do not need to be explored in depth.
All external factors that may cause humans to be infected will be treated as inducements that can cause exogenous diseases.
From the perspective of Western medicine, they generally believe that the human body does not have subjective initiative. Once a person becomes sick, he or she is passively infected, and subsequent treatment can only be a passive behavior.
Only by relying on doctors and drugs or surgery can patients recover.
However, there is actually a huge fallacy in this concept.
In fact, our human bodies have an extremely advanced and complete defense system.
Whenever bacteria or viruses try to invade the human body, the human body under normal conditions can quickly detect the nature of these foreign enemies and find corresponding response strategies very quickly.
For example, if you want to destroy a specific bacterium or virus, you must first identify the various specific characteristics of the bacterium or virus, and then on this basis, generate a virus that is sufficient to kill this type of bacterium or virus. of antibodies.
As long as there are sufficient amounts of these antibodies in the body, the disease will naturally recover.
But you might as well think about it, under the same environment, why do some people get sick while others are safe?
And why do some people die after getting sick, while others are able to overcome the disease and regain a new life?
The most fundamental reason for such significant differences ultimately lies in whether each person's physical condition is completely normal, and to what extent it is normal.
Antibodies are priceless treasures.
So far, among many drugs, only antibiotics can function as artificial antibodies that directly act on bacteria, completely eliminating related bacteria through their powerful killing power.
However, what is worrying is that due to people's overuse and even abuse of antibiotics, bacteria have gradually developed significant resistance.
This drug resistance has led to the emergence of more and more "invincible bacteria" that tenaciously resist the attack of traditional antibiotics, posing an unprecedented threat to human health.
If things go on like this, if this trend cannot be effectively curbed, these superbugs will eventually push humanity into a desperate situation that is incurable and difficult to cure.
In contrast, in the face of the menacing viral diseases, we still do not have perfect and effective antiviral drugs.
In this case, the body's own antibodies have become a key force in fighting the virus.
The development and application of vaccines is undoubtedly one of the best ways to induce the body to produce antibodies.
However, it is not easy to successfully develop a high-quality, efficient and stable vaccine. It requires in-depth and sustained exploration and research by scientific researchers.
After all, there are as many types of viruses as countless, and they are also extremely adaptable and mutable, making them difficult to guard against.
Sometimes, even a vaccine proven to be effective yesterday may lose its original effectiveness due to virus mutation when moved to other regions or after just a few years.
When our body is attacked by some kind of bacteria or virus, a fierce battle begins quietly.
Generally speaking, the time it takes for the human body to produce targeted antibodies roughly falls within the range of 4 to 10 days, but the actual time is not fixed and is affected by many factors.
The two most critical points are the toxicity intensity of the bacteria or viruses themselves and the differences in individual physiques.
It is worth mentioning that the speed at which the human body recognizes and produces antibodies is astonishing. In comparison, the speed at which all scientists around the world develop corresponding antibodies is simply beyond the pale. It can even be said to be hundreds or even thousands of times different!
In just a few days, the body can quickly understand the unique properties of the bacteria or virus and accurately produce antibodies specifically designed to deal with them.
And once it successfully defeats these "enemies", the human body also has a miraculous ability to firmly remember the production process of these antibodies.
In this way, the immune system can respond instantly the next time it encounters the same bacteria or virus.
Quickly identify these invading enemies and use the previously prepared antibody weapons without hesitation to annihilate them with lightning speed, thereby effectively preventing people from being infected with such diseases again.
When a person's body is violently invaded by external bacteria or viruses, if specific antibodies against these pathogens cannot be successfully synthesized within the critical period of 4 to 10 days, death will undoubtedly be waiting for the person.
Where do such precious and vital antibodies come from? There is only one answer: they must come into being through fierce battles!
The most ideal situation would be for everyone's body to experience ruthless infections from various serious bacteria and viruses, thereby prompting the immune system to fight against and produce corresponding antibodies.
Some of these antibodies can even accompany people throughout their lives and serve as a strong shield against disease. However, such a beautiful vision is a luxury that is difficult to achieve in the real world.
Fortunately, intelligent humans have used their infinite wisdom to invent vaccines.
Vaccines are like a magic key, helping us partially realize the above wishes in a relatively simple way.
It is like a pre-set line of defense, which can prevent the invasion of bacteria and viruses to a certain extent and reduce the risk of contracting diseases.
However, it should be clear that vaccines only prevent the occurrence of disease.
Facing the many patients who are already suffering from diseases and suffering, modern Western medicine often seems helpless and has no cure.
Although medical researchers are constantly exploring new treatments and drugs, we still have a long way to go in the face of many difficult and complicated diseases.
Therefore, it is too late for people like Huang Xiaojiang, Director Liao and others who are already sick to develop a vaccine. The most suitable thing to try now may be to use traditional Chinese medicine to enhance the patient's immunity.
Moreover, TCM treatment is relatively mild, and there will be no harm to yourself before the enemy.
Thinking of this, Wu Xiaofu's ideas were basically clear. Wu Xiaofu also had an idea about where to start.
Ebola virus multiplies rapidly, starting in the blood and then in major systems.
In this case, we should start from each major system to enhance the immunity of each major system, and finally use a multi-pronged approach to integrate into one to completely surround the virus.
As long as the violent momentum of the virus is contained and doctors are given more time to adjust the medication plan and administer the medication step by step, it seems that nothing is impossible to defeat the virus.
Moreover, Western medicine can also be a good supplement in this regard. Not only are there some quick-acting medicines that can be used in emergencies, but these examinations can also quickly know the severity of injuries to various systems of the body, allowing doctors to Better targeted medication.
Therefore, Wu Xiaofu has always felt that modern medicine, Chinese and Western medicine are not antagonistic, and the integration of Chinese and Western medicine is the good news for patients.
Wu Xiaofu told Director Li his thoughts. After hearing this, Director Li couldn't help but look confused. Is this what traditional Chinese medicine does?
There is no guide, what should I do if something goes wrong? (End of chapter)