Chapter 255 Prescription for Treating Pneumonia
Zhao Anqi was very surprised that in such a disaster-stricken environment, apart from the government, there were actually people who could afford to keep dogs.
"Currently, pneumonia is mainly transmitted between people through droplets and close contact. There are no cases showing that people can infect animals. I personally think that animals should not be infected."
If animals could be infected with pneumonic plague, the world would be in chaos. Animals are not constrained like humans, and they would run around carrying the virus. It wouldn't be long before all mammals on the planet were infected with pneumonic plague.
There weren't many mammals in their floating city, but there were in other cities. And if the plague could infect animals, other cities would have spread the news long ago.
"If your friend is really worried, you can quarantine the dog temporarily."
"After being infected with the pneumonia, you will have a fever in the first three days, followed by a dry, itchy throat and a cough. Once these symptoms are found, it can basically be confirmed that you have the pneumonia. If there are no symptoms after about seven days of isolation, it can be determined that you are not infected with the pneumonia."
The incubation period of the pneumonia is not long, which is something that all medical staff are thankful for. If the incubation period is longer, it will bring them more trouble.
Upon hearing this, Xia Xiaoman calculated in his mind that four days had passed since Maodan bit He Jingxuan, and he had no fever or cough, so he should not have been infected with the pneumonia.
After seeing Zhao Anqi off, Xia Xiaoman came to the second floor in protective clothing and took Maodan's temperature again. His temperature was normal, but Maodan looked a little depressed.
It had very little space to move around, and being locked up on the second floor gave it even less space to move around. Although Xia Xiaoman would take a lot of time to visit it every day, compared to the 24-hour company she had before, Maodan felt like he had fallen out of favor.
Seeing that Maodan didn't eat much and had lost a lot of weight, Xia Xiaoman was very worried, but she didn't dare to let it go downstairs. She could only cook more delicious food to nourish Maodan's body.
After finally enduring the long 7 days, Xia Xiaoman immediately let Maodan out and took it downstairs.
Maodan, who had been locked up for 7 days, was unusually well-behaved. When he returned to the first floor, he lay obediently beside the kang, not making any trouble or barking, as if he was afraid that he would do something wrong again and be locked up by his owner.
Xia Xiaoman played with it for three days before Maodan gradually regained his former naughty character.
Suddenly, there was a noise from the second floor, as if something hit the window. Maodan stood up vigilantly, wanting to go upstairs to check for his master, but he instinctively resisted going upstairs.
Xia Xiaoman patted Maodan on the back and said, "If you don't want to go up, then don't go up. I'll go up and take a look myself."
Seeing Xia Xiaoman going upstairs, Maodan no longer hesitated, rushed in front of Xia Xiaoman, and ran up to the second floor quickly. Xia Xiaoman curled the corners of her lips and followed it up to the second floor.
Opening the balcony door on the second floor, there was no one outside. Xia Xiaoman was wondering where the sound came from when there was a sudden bang from the right window. She immediately ran over to open the window. On the second floor of the villa next door, Sun Haiyun, wearing a mask, stood by the window and greeted her.
Xia Xiaoman: "...Why did you smash my window?"
"I was infected with pneumonia and was afraid that I might infect you, so I picked up a few small stones and threw them at your window to see if you were home."
Xia Xiaoman asked in confusion: "How can you come back if you are infected with pneumonia? Weren't they all sent to the quarantine area? Did you escape from the quarantine area?"
Sun Haiyun was speechless. "You have a very rich imagination. Do you think I look like someone who escaped from the quarantine area?"
Xia Xiaoman didn't say anything, and answered with silence.
You can only know a person's face but not his heart. At the critical moment of life and death, who knows what a person will become? Three months ago, no one could have guessed that the man who "poisoned" the community would "poison".
Sun Haiyun sighed helplessly and explained, "The prescription for curing the pneumonia has been developed in the capital. The higher-ups thought that since there is already a medicine to treat the pneumonia, they would let us go back."
After all, such a large group of people would need a lot of food in a day, and the superiors were reluctant to give away so many supplies, so they drove them back.
"I came out of the power station and wanted to see if Weiwei was infected with the disease. On the way there, I was robbed. The robber was infected with the disease. I was in close contact with him, so I was also infected."
Knowing that the robber had pneumonia, he handed the robber to a passing security guard and went to the medical station for testing. The doctor knew that he had just been in contact with a pneumonia patient and suggested that he stay in the quarantine area and wait for two days before testing again.
Two days later, the test results came out and he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Fortunately, the medicine for treating pneumonia arrived from the capital at that time.
There were too many patients at the medical station, and there were not enough beds for him to be hospitalized. Patients like him who had just been infected with the pneumonia but had not yet developed serious symptoms could go home and isolate themselves after receiving the medicine. Only those with serious symptoms needed to continue to stay in the isolation area to cooperate with the hospital for treatment.
Xia Xiaoman was a little surprised. "The capital has developed a drug to treat lung disease so quickly. I thought it would take at least half a year."
Sun Haiyun said, "If we count from the time when the first case of pneumonia was discovered in Yunhai City, more than half a year has passed."
"Let's not talk about this anymore. I came to you to ask if you want to sell the pumpkins and winter melons in your yard?" When he was cleaning just now, he saw that Xia Xiaoman's yard was full of fruits and vegetables.
Xia Xiaoman said: "I can sell you two small ones each, and I will keep the rest for myself."
Sun Haiyun nodded, "Okay, then leave the two small ones for me. I'll buy more from you when I get better." Then he remembered something and said, "I heard that the higher-ups will send people to disinfect in the next two days. You'd better pick all the vegetables you can in your yard, otherwise they might get contaminated by the disinfectant powder."
Xia Xiaoman was puzzled. "Isn't disinfection done on the main roads? It shouldn't be done in residential areas!"
"Not necessarily. I heard that our community is a severely affected area, and there is a high possibility that the disinfection team will come in to disinfect."
Upon hearing this, Xia Xiaoman said, "Okay, then I'll pick all the vegetables I can later." She also wanted to keep the pumpkins older as older pumpkins are sweeter.
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Two days after the vegetables were picked, the disinfection team arrived. Maodan heard the constant noise outside and paced back and forth in the house anxiously.
The day after the disinfection, people who were sent to quarantine in the community came back one after another, and the community gradually became lively. Xia Xiaoman no longer stayed at home all day, and would go out to fetch water when it was time.
When she was queuing for water, she noticed that some people in the queue were coughing and some were walking unnaturally. These were the sequelae of the epidemic that had lasted too long.
These sequelae may recover slowly in the future, or they may accompany you for life. Or, when the underground city is built and the medical system returns to its previous level, these sequelae can be cured.
But all this has nothing to do with Xia Xiaoman. She is busy growing seedlings and vegetables again.
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