Chen Xia did not blame today's pediatricians for the irregular use of medication, as this was caused by the limitations of the times.
Because even in Europe and the United States, these were the mainstream methods of treating asthma in 1986, whether for adults or children.
But as a reborn person, especially one who has mastered advanced treatment plans and drugs of later generations,
How could we bear to watch children become ugly, suffer from long-term illnesses, or even die due to untimely treatment if we cannot make any contribution to pediatrics?
Yes, asthma can kill people. The most famous example is Miss Teresa Teng.
There are many versions of Teresa Teng's death on the Internet, such as the conspiracy theory that there were slap marks on her face after her death, which means she was beaten to death by her French boyfriend.
Of course, the mainstream view is that Teresa Teng died of an asthma attack in the hotel, tracheal spasm and final suffocation.
In fact, the real reason was not just the asthma attack, but that Teresa Teng did not use asthma medication in a standardized and reasonable manner.
Because she has a chronic asthma problem, she always carries a kind of "salbutamol inhalation aerosol" with her wherever she goes.
This is a bronchodilator. A few sprays of it will immediately dilate the trachea during an attack, and the spasm will be relieved immediately. Asthma patients often carry it with them and use it as a life-saving medicine.
However, this drug has one major drawback, which is that long-term use alone will lead to drug resistance, which means that the effect will become worse and worse. The patient may need to spray it repeatedly many times before it works.
The same thing happened to Teresa Teng. When she had the seizure in the hotel that day, she didn't just collapse in the corridor without anyone seeing her.
As usual, she immediately sprayed the "Salbutamol Inhalation Aerosol" repeatedly many times.
As a result, this time the life-saving medicine turned into a murderous drug because the repeated use of large doses of "salbutamol inhalation aerosol" led to a serious side effect - heart rhythm disorder.
In addition, there was severe traffic congestion on the way to the hospital for treatment, which delayed the best time for treatment and eventually led to her death.
This is not something Chen Xia made up. It was said by Academician Zhong Nanshan himself. He is an old friend of Teresa Teng's attending physician and knows firsthand information.
Therefore, in the treatment of asthma, not only are medicines needed, but standardized treatment is also necessary. Both are indispensable.
The sad thing for the little girl in the pediatric ward is that there is no effective medicine, so the little girl has to be treated with dexamethasone and antibiotics.
The tragedy of Teresa Teng is that she had medicine, but she did not use it properly and eventually died from an asthma attack and drug side effects.
Asthma is a disease that has a high incidence rate in the past few decades due to global industrialization, increased environmental pollution and other reasons.
Take China as an example.
According to a paper published in The Lancet, the asthma prevalence rate among people aged 20 and above in China is 4.2%, and the total number of patients is 45.7 million. Is this number shocking?
Equivalent to the total population of Spain.
The incidence of asthma in children is also quite high. For example, the prevalence of asthma in children under 14 years old in China was 1.02% in 1990, reached 1.97% in 2000, and increased to 3.02% in 2010.
Basically, the overall trend is gradually rising and the incidence rate is increasing. Of course, it varies across the country. For example, the incidence rate in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other regions is relatively high, reaching about 7%.
The incidence rate in areas such as Qinghai and XZ is relatively low, only about a few tenths of a percent.
In other words, the more economically developed the region, the higher the prevalence of asthma patients. Do you think this has anything to do with environmental pollution?
So whether from a medical perspective, from a clinical practicality perspective, or from the economic benefits of Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Company.
From now on, we will develop reverse asthma drugs, which will benefit the country, the people, and the economy.
There are actually only a few drugs for treating asthma, such as leukotrienes, glucocorticoids, β2 receptor agonists, and a combination of the two.
By then, Chen Xia will have done all the reverse drug engineering and applied for patents. Then he will get the big piece of fat meat.
Not to mention anything else, the monopoly of the two medicines for stomach problems and asthma is enough for Chen Xia to become a giant, because the audience for these two diseases is really too large, and more patients means more money.
For some rare disease drugs, there are only a few patients in the country or the world who use them. Research is a huge expense, and the research results cannot generate economic benefits, or the drugs are simply priced sky-high.
For example, a hospital billing receipt of 550,000 yuan from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University has attracted attention online in recent days.
The invoice shows that a one-year-old girl was hospitalized for four days from August 17 this year to August 21, costing 550,000 yuan.
Among them, the bed fee is 620 yuan, the laboratory fee is 930 yuan, the nursing fee is 80 yuan, the examination fee is 1555 yuan, the diagnosis fee is 120 yuan, and the Western medicine fee is 0.2 yuan.
Then the bad media began to unite with the parents, criticizing the hospitals for charging exorbitant fees and complaining about how expensive and difficult it was to see a doctor. This group of reporters were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
So, what's so expensive? The reason is that the child has a rare disease called spinal muscular atrophy, which requires a special injection of nusinersen, which costs 550,000 yuan in China.
This is the only effective medicine, and its use is also agreed by parents. This medicine is imported.
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