After urgently treating a patient suffering from anaphylactic shock caused by a bee sting, Chen Xia immediately turned around to look at the snake bite patient.
When bitten by a snake, the first thing to do is to determine whether it is a venomous snake or a non-venomous snake. If it is a venomous snake, the key is to know what kind of snake it is?
If possible, it is best to kill the snake and send it to the hospital. If not, take a photo with your mobile phone. If not, make sure to remember the characteristics of the snake.
This will help doctors choose the rescue plan as quickly as possible.
After all, there are several types of snake bites, such as
Venomous snakes that mainly use neurotoxins include the Bungarus krait, the Bungarus regulus and the sea snake. Their venom mainly acts on the nervous system, causing muscle paralysis and respiratory paralysis.
Venomous snakes that mainly infect with blood venom include the bamboo pit viper, viper, etc. Their venom mainly affects the blood and circulatory system, causing hemolysis, bleeding, coagulation and heart failure.
Finally, there is a type of venomous snake that has both neurotoxins and hemotoxins: pit vipers, cobras, etc., whose venom has the characteristics of both neurotoxins and hemotoxins.
Every snake bite is an emergency. Knowing the type of snake and prescribing the right medicine can help save lives as quickly as possible.
If the doctor doesn't even know what kind of snake bite it is, he can only guess with his eyes closed, or inject two or three serums at the same time. Whether the injured person can be saved depends on his life.
Chen Xia squatted down and saw his father-in-law making a cross-shaped incision on the wound, then using a glass cup as a fire cup to remove the poison. (Whether a cross-shaped incision is necessary for snake bites is currently controversial in the medical community.)
"Dad, can you confirm what kind of venomous snake it is?"
Gu Wei looked at the two tooth marks on Luo Zi's leg and said with experience, "It was bitten by a dirt ball. It's very troublesome."
"Earth ball?"
Gu Guozhong, who was standing nearby, quickly explained, "The Tuqiuzi is the most venomous snake in the Changbai Mountain area, called the white-browed pit viper. Nine out of ten people who were bitten by it in the past died."
When the family members nearby heard this, they cried even louder.
The villagers watching also shook their heads: "Tuqiuzi, ah, this is troublesome."
The village chief also shouted anxiously: "Quick, go and call Lao Jitou."
Chen Xia didn't care what the people around him said. He just wanted to know that it was a serpent. Anyway, there was serpent serum in his space hospital.
So he hurriedly took it out of his big backpack and quickly injected it under the strange looks of the villagers.
After taking the snake venom serum, Chen Xia felt relieved. Only his brother-in-law Gu Guojun was very puzzled:
"Brother-in-law, you have so many medicines in your backpack? Even snake venom serum? Are you here as a guest or an explorer?"
Chen Xia shook her hair and said, "Look, this is what professionalism means. This is professionalism. We medical workers must be prepared and aware of the need for emergency treatment at all times, right?"
Gu Wei also patted his son-in-law's shoulder happily. If they could rescue both of them, wouldn't it be a great honor for his Gu family? Who wouldn't think well of them then?
Rural people just want to have a good reputation among their fellow villagers.
While everyone is still trying to rescue the snake-bitten victim, Xiao Liuzi, who was stung by a bee, has already regained consciousness.
It is difficult to rescue patients in anaphylactic shock, but it is also easy. After taking a few doses of medicine, the laryngeal edema will be relieved immediately, the airway will be unblocked, and the patient will recover.
When they saw the man who had just been dying gasping for breath, there were bursts of exclamations from the crowd.
Everyone kept praising the Gu family for being a medical family, rich and virtuous, and they almost wanted to praise Gu Wei, Chen Xia and Gu Lin to the sky.
Xiao Liuzi's family members all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the Gu family members.
Chen Xia and Gu Lin were so frightened that they hid aside. According to the custom in Yuezhou, being kowtowed to by others on one's knees is definitely a taboo that will shorten one's lifespan and reduce one's fortune.
Xiao Liuzi was taken home by his family on a donkey cart. He then rested for a while and was observed to have no major problems. Before leaving, Chen Xia also gave him some anti-allergic drugs.
But the trouble is the "Luozi" lying on the ground,
More than half an hour passed, and anti-snake venom serum, epinephrine, dopamine, and hormones were all used, but there was no reaction at all, and the vital signs were only maintained stable.
Chen Xia was a little worried. If this continued, respiratory paralysis would easily lead to death. Even if he didn't die, his liver and kidney functions would not be able to bear it and would collapse.
Even if he is rescued, he will be a disabled person.
Gu Wei also frowned: "Xiao Xia, this is not good. This is very dangerous."
Just when the father-in-law and son-in-law were at a loss, the "old Jitou" called by the villagers arrived.
Lao Jitou, a genuine Northeast farmer, looks to be in his 60s.
When they arrived, one of their trouser legs was long and the other was short, and they were carrying a pesticide barrel on their backs. It was obvious that they were dragged here by the villagers while they were working in the fields.
Gu Wei had been away from home for a long time, so he didn't have a clear understanding of the village affairs and didn't recognize all the people.
The village chief introduced him, "Lao Jitou is our village's barefoot doctor. Don't underestimate him, his family has a family tradition of treating snake bites. He is very famous in this area."
Gu Wei nodded, with a hint of interest in his eyes. He had heard a little about the grass-roots doctor.
But Chen Xia immediately remembered a documentary he had watched in his previous life about the "Mangshan Iron-headed Snake", a giant venomous snake rarely seen in the world.
Hunan's "Snake King" Chen Yuanhui has been studying this kind of snake. Once when he went into the mountains to shoot, he was accidentally bitten by a Mangshan pit viper. He was poisoned on the spot and almost lost consciousness.
In the end, he was saved by the combination of external application of Chinese herbal medicine, oral administration and acupuncture, all of which were "traditional remedies".
Later, when the reporter interviewed him, he said that it was useless to send him to a big hospital.
One is that there is no relevant anti-snake venom serum, and the second is that even the best experts would need at least one or two days to study the snake venom, by which time he would have died.
This documentary reflects from a positive perspective that folk remedies made with Chinese herbal medicine are very effective in treating snake bites.
Another example is the famous "Ji Desheng Snake Medicine", which was invented by a snake catcher.
But Mr. Ji Desheng is from Nantong, Jiangsu Province. There are no famous mountains or rivers in Nantong, and it has never been a gathering place for poisonous snakes. Several of the most poisonous snakes in the country have never appeared in Nantong.
So although Mr. Ji Desheng is very powerful, he is definitely not that magical. He does not encounter too many species of venomous snakes, so the efficacy of the anti-snake venom drug he invented is limited.
This is also one of the reasons why Ji Desheng snake medicine became less and less common in the market.
As mentioned earlier, the Hunan Mangshan pit viper and the Northeast white-browed pit viper are both fighters among venomous snakes and are extremely venomous.
The fact that these two types of venomous snake bites can be cured with Chinese herbal medicine means that the effectiveness of this "folk remedy" is far superior to Ji Desheng's snake medicine.
When Chen Xia thought of this, he started thinking about business again, but before that, he wanted to see whether this "old Jitou" was really capable.
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