Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News Reporter He Lina Correspondent Zheng Jia Shi Zongying
In order to cure her son Chuanchuan (pseudonym's) cough, Ms. Liu (pseudonym) in Hangzhou frequently ran to the hospital, and in two months, the registration fee spent thousands of yuan, and even hospitalized, but the child's condition still did not improve.
Recently, the cough that tormented Chuanchuan was finally cured by Zhao Shiyong, director of the Infectious Disease Department of Hangzhou Children's Hospital, and the family was overjoyed. However, the careful Ms. Liu reviewed and analyzed the bitter medical experience, and when she saw the statement, she was dumbfounded, and could not help but wonder: the cough that had not been cured after spending tens of thousands of yuan before, and finally only took 1.88 yuan of medicine.
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The 8-year-old boy's cough has not been cured for a long time
Sometimes I am woken up in the middle of the night while I am asleep
8-year-old Chuan Chuan is a relatively strong boy, usually a little cold and cough, a little medicine can be good. Therefore, when the child inexplicably began to cough during the Spring Festival holiday, Ms. Liu initially thought that she was just cold, went to the hospital to do a new crown examination, and the receiving doctor also thought that it was acute laryngitis, and she was allowed to go home with medicine.
However, after taking the medicine for three days, Chuanchuan's cough showed no signs of getting better, and after a week, it became more serious. "He coughed day and night, and at night he coughed even harder, and sometimes he woke up in a deep sleep, and we listened to the coughing sounds and couldn't wait to get sick for him." Ms. Liu's voice was full of pain.
It was then that Ms. Liu began the arduous road of helping her son fight cough. Internal medicine, respiratory, entolaryngology... They may have traveled over and over again in the departments related to cough, acute laryngitis, bronchitis, rhinitis... The diagnosis of the disease with different opinions made Ms. Liu even more anxious.
And because of the cough, Chuan Chuan has been taking leave at home, fortunately in the early age of primary school, relying on parental counseling to learn can barely keep up, but is strictly restricted from going out to play with other children, he is very unhappy about this, occasionally tantrums.
The culprit that caused the family to fall into a nightmare was whooping cough
The 1.88 yuan cheap medicine actually drove away the child's cough
How can the cause of Chuanchuan's cough not be found? How long will this child be tortured? In the dead of night, Ms. Liu often listens to her son's coughing and insomnia, and all kinds of wild thoughts in her mind.
Until not long ago, a friend suggested that they take Chuanchuan to Hangzhou Children's Hospital to see, the hospital has rich experience in the treatment of such diseases in children, and has a high level in the province.
"Because it's not close to home, I didn't know much about this hospital before, people kindly recommended it, I went to try it, I didn't expect hope to be here." Ms. Liu said frankly. After consulting the relevant information of the hospital, they went straight to the famous doctor's clinic of Director Zhao Shiyong.
Carefully inquiring about the medical history, and then flipping through the previous medical records and examination reports, Director Zhao Shiyong told Ms. Liu: "It may be atypical whooping cough. Immediately, he did two things: one was to give a treatment plan, oral medicine + atomization; the other was to take samples for blood antibody testing.
This time, Ms. Liu waited for a surprise. Two days later, Chuanchuan's cough improved significantly, and after four days of medicine to be reviewed, the child had recovered almost completely. The laboratory test report also confirmed Director Zhao Shiyong's speculation.
Later, when sorting out the relevant documents, Ms. Liu found that the oral medicine prescribed by Director Zhao Shiyong was only 1.88 yuan.
After the age of four or five years, the level of pertussis antibodies decreases
It is necessary to focus on preventing parental transmission to children
In fact, parents should be familiar with whooping cough, because when the child is 3 months old, the pertussis vaccine is required.
"However, the vaccine does not guarantee that the child will not be 100% free of this disease, with the increase of age, the level of antibodies declines, generally after four or five years of age is relatively easy to occur, but also because of the remaining protective effect, the symptoms are not typical, so it is difficult to distinguish from ordinary cough, and therefore ignored." Director Zhao Shiyong said.
Most cases of colds and coughs are minor diseases, but for children who persist for more than 2 weeks of bad cough, parents need to pay attention to it, and should seek the help of a specialist to find the cause and carry out targeted treatment.
For Ms. Liu's incomprehensible 1.88 yuan drug, Director Zhao Shiyong gave an objective analysis: "Our team has the honor to participate in the formulation of the "Diagnosis and Treatment Suggestions for Chinese Children's Whooping Cough". Because we usually receive more children who are similar to whooping cough, we will consider it in this direction. And with this low-priced drug, it is also to see that those doctors have used a lot of anti-inflammatory drugs before the effect is not obvious, and then try to choose this old drug, which is useful for children and is the best result. It's really not that I'm smarter than other doctors. ”
However, Director Zhao Shiyong said that in the clinic, children with whooping cough like Chuanchuan are not uncommon, and most of them are infected by parents or other children. The most pitiful are those babies who have not had time to be vaccinated, and some even have whooping cough complicated by pneumonia and encephalitis, and their condition is serious and needs to be hospitalized. Therefore, if parents have a cold and cough, they must also treat it in time, especially to do a good job in the isolation and protection of their children at home.
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