The suspicion of cholera hung over everyone, and Chen Xia decided to check with his master first.
The current medical situation in Yuezhou area is that the former military hospital, now Yuezhou Fourth Hospital, is the strongest and has the most complete departments, especially the infectious disease department, which is definitely the No. 1 in Yuezhou area.
The second is Yuezhou Second Hospital, which was formerly a church hospital and later changed into a comprehensive hospital. The hospital is not large, but it has a complete range of departments and is the most important medical institution in Yuezhou city.
Next is Yuezhou First Hospital. Since it was established only a few years ago, it is still a small hospital and is still in the process of development.
At Ren Yuanfei's house, Old Ren listened to Chen Xia's account of what he had seen during the day, his fingers tapping on the table.
"I tentatively agree with you. Both the symptoms and the color of the stool are more consistent with cholera. This looks like a serious problem. An epidemic like this happening in a densely populated area in the main city is fatal."
"Then Master, what should we do next?"
"If it's really cholera, it'll be troublesome. The entire Yuezhou city area will be blocked, and the local water source will be undrinkable. The key is that we'll need a large number of doctors and medicines. But I can teach you a little bit. Let me first give you a brief introduction to cholera.
Cholera is an acute diarrheal infectious disease caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with Vibrio cholerae, a Gram-negative bacterium that produces exotoxins that cause excessive secretion of intestinal fluid.
The secretion volume is too large, exceeding the intestinal reabsorption capacity, resulting in severe diarrhea and vomiting, severe dehydration, a significant decrease in plasma volume, lack of salt in the body, blood concentration, and peripheral circulatory failure.
Severe diarrhea and vomiting can lead to electrolyte loss, potassium and sodium deficiency, muscle cramps, acidosis, and even shock and acute renal failure. Without timely treatment, the mortality rate is very high."
Chen Xia asked: "Master, what drugs do we generally use in clinical practice now?"
"The key is to rehydrate, replenish electrolytes, correct acidosis, and then use some antibacterial drugs, such as sulfamethoxazole, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, furazolidone, etc."
“How’s the effect?”
"I can only say it's average, because these are the same drugs I've been using for so many years. I guess the bacteria in the patients' bodies have become resistant to them, so the effectiveness of these drugs is getting worse and worse. Penicillin and erythromycin are useless."
Chen Xia asked curiously, "Why not use quinolone antibiotics, such as levofloxacin, norfloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and moxifloxacin? They should be particularly effective against Gram-negative bacteria."
Ren Yuanfei was stunned for a moment: "Quinolone antibiotics? What is floxacin? Ahem, I haven't heard of it. Are these foreign imported drugs?"
Chen Xia slapped his forehead and said, "Uh, okay, these are all foreign medicines."
Ren Yuanfei glanced at the young disciple with a half-smile:
"I know what you're thinking. If the drugs you're talking about are truly effective, like the oseltamivir we had last time, you can definitely get them. You should make money from them. After all, life is priceless."
Chen Xia smiled awkwardly: "Master, look at what you said, am I the kind of person who only cares about money?"
"Isn't it?"
"Old Ren, you're going too far. I was born in the New China and raised under the red flag. I'm a socialist successor. How could I only care about money? I also care about women, and there are so many beautiful girls."
"Haha, you're nothing like your dad. He's such a conservative guy, how could he give birth to a money-grubber like you?"
After Ren Yuanfei finished speaking, he stood up and took out a book called "Infectious Diseases" from the bookshelf:
"Take it, go back and read the chapter on cholera carefully. I think our department will definitely be dispatched when the time comes. We won't be able to handle it with the level and capabilities of the Second Hospital alone."
"Well, then it will be up to Master to unify the martial arts world with his might."
Ren Yuanfei laughed and scolded, "Get lost."
Chen Xia came out of his master's house and passed by Gu Lin's house. He imitated the cuckoo's call at her window, "Cuckoo, cuckoo."
Soon the window opened, "Chen Lao Er, you are trying to imitate Zhou Pa Pi by crowing like a rooster in the middle of the night."
"Idiot, have you ever heard a chicken crow like that? Come down quickly, I brought you a cake."
When Gu Lin heard there was cake, she didn't care whether it was dark outside or not. She flew down like a bird. When she saw the small fresh milk cake in Chen Xia's hand, she directly scooped a piece with her fingers and put it in her mouth.
“It’s delicious.”
"Little ancestor, please don't use your hands. I'm telling you, there's suspected cholera in Yuezhou City. Please pay attention to hygiene."
"Well, it's none of your business. If I get cholera, you'll be the first one to get it."
"Fuck, women are the most vicious. I gave you a cake and you made me sick. Let go. Don't try to grab it. I won't give you any."
Two young people were flirting downstairs, but they didn't know that there was a strange old man upstairs, secretly watching them from behind the curtains.
If Chen Xia dared to touch even a hair of Gu Lin, he would make this kid bleed to pieces and leave his teeth on the ground.
The next morning, Chen Chun was still sleeping in when he heard someone knocking on the door, and it sounded quite urgent.
Seeing that her brother was still sleeping, she walked across the yard and opened the door.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw a young girl standing outside, asking curiously:
"Who are you looking for?"
The person who came was Gu Lin. "Oh, you are Chen Xia's elder sister, hello, I am Chen Xia's colleague. Our director asked him to go back to work today because of an urgent matter."
"It turns out to be Xiao Xia's colleague. Come on in, I'll go wake him up."
"No need, big sister, I'll go and call."
After saying that, Gu Lin rushed into Chen Xia's room with a smile on her face, as if she was at home. Then, the noise of two people arguing came from inside, which made Chen Chun stunned.
The first thing that flashed through her mind was: "What's going on? A girl actually ran to a boy's room so early in the morning? And she looked like she was quite familiar with this house, not a stranger at all."
She hurried back to her room and woke Chen Qiu up.
"Third brother, let me ask you, does your brother have a girlfriend?"
"Well, big sister, what are you doing? How can the second brother have a girlfriend? I haven't heard him talk about it, but he has quite a few female colleagues who are close to him. They often come to our house for dinner."
Chen Chun was a little bit unconvinced. How could he be so casual if she wasn't his girlfriend?
As the elder sister-in-law, she is really worried to death.
So she quietly leaned against Chen Xia's door, wanting to listen to what the two people inside were arguing about, and suddenly the door was opened.
Chen Chun felt very embarrassed, and Gu Lin stuck out her tongue behind Chen Xia. She probably just realized how embarrassing it was.
He laughed twice.
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