Chapter 47 Recurrent Fever
The sky was gloomy and the rain didn't stop for 24 hours.
Xiao Zheyu sat next to Su Ran at the rear of the speedboat. "It's been raining all day. Even the Dragon King wouldn't marry his daughter off like this!"
"What do you mean by marrying off a daughter?" Zhou Qiuyang didn't hear clearly.
Xiao Zheyu explained: "Where I live, when it rains it means the Dragon King is marrying off his daughter."
Sun Qing laughed and said, "It's feudal superstition. If the Dragon King is really marrying off his daughters, how many daughters does he have? He hasn't married off all of them after more than a month."
Xiao Zheyu chuckled twice, turned around and wanted to chat with Su Ran, and found that his face looked a little abnormal.
"Su Ran, are you okay? Why is your face so pale? Are you really poisoned by a snake?"
Hearing his words, Sun Qing and Xia Xiaoman both looked at Su Ran.
Su Ran's face turned pale, and he held his forehead with both hands. "I'm fine, just a little dizzy."
Xia Xiaoman frowned and reached out to lift up his trouser legs. The two tooth holes had stopped bleeding and the skin and blood vessels around the wounds were in normal condition. It didn't look like he had been poisoned by snake venom.
Su Ran brushed her hand away, "Sister Xiaoman, I'm really fine. I might have gotten a little fever from being caught in the rain for too long."
"Fever? Let me take a look." Xiao Zheyu took his hand away from his head and put his own hand on it. "Yes, you have a slight fever. Your forehead is very hot."
Sun Qing said, "Then go back quickly! We have some antipyretic medicine at home. Take two pills. Don't go out tomorrow. Stay at home and recuperate. Don't go out again until you are well."
"Coach, can you drive faster? Su Ran is sick and has a fever."
Wen Jianfeng responded and stepped on the accelerator to drive into the community.
When he returned to the community, Su Ran was already delirious due to fever and could not even stand steadily.
Zhou Qiuyang carried him home, and he and Xiao Zheyu helped him change into dry clothes, and fed him antipyretic and cold medicine. After Su Ran took the medicine, he fell asleep.
Around four o'clock in the afternoon, the fever subsided and Su Ran recovered as before, helping to chop wood in high spirits.
Xiao Zheyu mocked mercilessly, "Brother, you are not good enough. You fell down after just a short while in the rain. Sister Xiaoman and the others haven't fallen down yet."
A man can't say no, Su Ran argued, "Why can't I do it? Get bitten by a snake and then go out in the rain. I guess after being bitten by a snake, you will fall to the ground and can't get up!"
"No means no, stop making excuses." Xiao Zheyu made a mean face, which made Su Ran so angry that she chased him for a long time with a hatchet in her hand.
Zhou Qiuyang came back from 1502 and saw the two kids fighting. He shouted at them, "Stop playing! The coach made snake soup. Come over and eat!"
Xia Xiaoman only knew how to roast snakes, and the ones she roasted were fishy and unpalatable. In order not to waste good things, she gave the snake to Wen Jianfeng to deal with. Seeing this, the other people took out their ingredients and asked Chef Wen to deal with them.
You have to cook one dish, you have to cook two dishes, or just cook them both and have a meal together.
After drinking a bowl of hot snake soup, my whole body warmed up from the inside out.
Xiao Zheyu picked up a piece of cold-mixed purslane and gave it to Su Ran. "Eat more of this, it can clear away heat and detoxify."
"Why don't you eat?"
"I wasn't bitten by a snake."
"I think you want me to eat more wild vegetables and save the meat for you."
Xiao Zheyu sighed, "Look at you, how can your heart be so dark? I just care about you."
Su Ran glanced at him and said nothing, clearly showing her distrust.
With these two idiots showing off, the atmosphere was very good and the group ate for almost two hours before leaving.
As he stood up and was about to leave, Su Ran, who was walking in front, suddenly fell backwards. Xia Xiaoman immediately reached out and helped Su Ran sit down.
"What's wrong? You didn't drink any alcohol, so why did you fall down?" Xiao Zheyu asked nervously.
Xia Xiaoman touched Su Ran's forehead and said, "It's burning again."
Ye Xiaojie examined Su Ran and said solemnly, "Something is not right. It doesn't seem to be an ordinary cold or fever."
"What should we do then?" Xiao Zheyu asked.
"Send her to the medical station, there are professional doctors there." She was just a novice, and could diagnose simple fevers and colds, but she couldn't understand more complicated cases.
Wen Jianfeng stood up and said, "I'll take him there now."
"I'll go too. I'll drive the speedboat over now. Coach, you carry Su Ran downstairs." After saying that, Xia Xiaoman hurried downstairs.
He found a secluded place, took out the speedboat from the space, drove back to the community immediately, picked up Wen Jianfeng and Su Ran and went to the nearest rescue point.
There is a fixed road leading to the rescue point. Generally, there will be no ambushes on the road because the rescue team will take this road to go out for rescue every day.
They arrived at the rescue point without any obstruction. Xia Xiaoman stayed there and watched the assault boat, while Wen Jianfeng carried Su Ran on his back to find a medical station.
Time passed bit by bit. Xia Xiaoman waited on the speedboat for more than an hour but didn't see Wen Jianfeng come out.
After waiting for another hour, everyone at the rescue center had fallen asleep and no one came out yet.
After digesting the dinner, Xia Xiaoman took out a piece of chocolate from her bag, tore open the wrapper and put it in her mouth.
He ate countless pieces of chocolate. There were chocolate packaging bags all around the speedboat. It was only in the dark at night that no one saw him, otherwise Xia Xiaoman would definitely have been targeted.
At around four in the morning, Wen Jianfeng and Su Ran finally came out.
Su Ran had sobered up a lot, but her face was still very ugly. Xia Xiaoman asked with concern: "How is it? Are you okay?"
Wen Jianfeng shook his head and said, "Go back first, and we'll talk about it later."
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Xia Xiaoman and the other two had not returned yet, and Sun Qing and the others were so worried that they couldn't sleep. They simply sat on the balcony of 1502, staring at the outside of the community and waiting for them to come back.
At around five o'clock, Xia Xiaoman and his friends finally returned.
Su Ran's face was as pale as if it had been powdered, Wen Jianfeng's face didn't look very good either, and only Xia Xiaoman's face looked slightly better.
Xiao Zheyu looked at the three of them and felt a little uneasy. "How is it? What did the doctor say?"
Su Ran didn't have the energy to talk, so he shook his head and sat aside.
Wen Jianfeng sighed and said solemnly, "The doctor examined her and said that Su Ran might have schistosomiasis."
"Schistosomiasis? What kind of disease is that? Does it mean there are blood-sucking worms in the body?" Sun Qing asked.
Wen Jianfeng shook his head. "I'm not sure either. I heard from the doctor that many people have this disease recently and the medical station is overcrowded."
"I took Su Ran to the medical station. There were people everywhere. There was no place to step. We waited in line for more than two hours and the doctor's visit took a long time."
Ye Xiaojie explained: "Schistosomes are a parasite. Schistosoma eggs are common in sewage. After the flood, sewage in the septic tank merged with the floodwater, and the schistosoma eggs hatched into larvae in the water."
"These larvae are very small and can penetrate into the human body through some small wounds and parasites."
"Generally, schistosomiasis has an incubation period of about 40 days. After the incubation period, fever, allergies, and digestive system disorders may occur."
Imagining that he had schistosomiasis parasites in his body, Xiao Zheyu's scalp instantly went numb. He asked nervously, "Sister Xiaojie, how do we treat schistosomiasis? How do we prevent it?"
"Also, the most important point is how do you know if you are already infected with schistosomiasis and are in the incubation period?"
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