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Never sprinkle salt on the wound.

Today, I saw a piece of news on a popular microblog: A mother sprinkled salt on the wound of her one-year-old daughter who had just been scalded by boiling water because she heard that saline can diminish inflammation. As a result, the doctor gave her a notice of critical illness. According to netizens’ comments, when I was a child, my mother sprinkled salt, vinegar, soy sauce, flour, garlic and sesame oil on my scalds. It sounds like garlic mashed white meat instead of treating scalds. There are also people who apply toothpaste and soap, which are all unreliable methods for scalding. Why can’t salt be sprinkled? People will say that hospitals often use saline to clean wounds? But the hospital Read More …

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What is over-medicated. What is the cause of over-medication?

Excessive medical treatment is a worldwide problem. The content is very complicated and it is not easy to explain it clearly. However, the main body to discuss this problem can only be professional doctors. Layman patients do not even know what is [moderate medical treatment]. How can we discuss [excessive medical treatment]? To say that the problem is complicated, First of all, it is not clear how to define it. Analyzing from different angles, There can be different definitions. For example, from the perspective of the patient’s personal interests, If it exceeds the examination and treatment (including medication, surgery, etc.) given in the diagnosis and treatment scope of this disease, They are all over-medicated. From the perspective of medical resources, Read More …

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Disasters from Mouth: Foreign Bodies in Children’s Digestive Tract

A few days ago, there was a 2-year-old child who had fever, vomiting and swelling. He took a film and found a small foreign body in his stomach. Supposedly, such a small foreign body can basically be discharged by itself and is unlikely to cause intestinal obstruction, but the child has obvious intestinal obstruction and peritonitis. Then, an operation was performed, during which two intestinal perforations were found. Later, I found the small foreign body in my stomach and took it out. It turned out that a small magnet and a small iron bar were tightly sucked together. It turned out that the child took advantage of the parents’ inattention and ate a small magnet and a small iron bar Read More …

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When a doctor encounters a fever in his child (Part I)

A colleague said that every time the child had a fever, his wife asked him, “Did you bring the virus back from the hospital?” My mother-in-law asked: You are a pediatrician, and even your child’s fever cannot be cured. Another colleague said: My son has had a tummy all day. I said to drink more water at home to observe. My mother-in-law said: Do you want to go to the hospital to find an old doctor? Compared with my own experience, I also feel the difficulties of my colleagues. When her daughter was less than one year old, one day she suddenly developed a fever and her body temperature quickly jumped to more than 39 degrees. At ordinary times, she Read More …

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Why do you take chest radiographs with fever? Is it crazy for the hospital to think about money?

For many patients, this kind of situation is really not uncommon: [I just have a fever, and the doctors who went to the hospital prescribed chest radiographs and so on without saying a few words. The doctors now are really incompetent and dirty, and they must be trying to earn examination fees.] But is this really the case? Without gossip, since the question mentions fever and chest radiograph, let’s discuss them from these two aspects. First of all, patients who come to see a doctor because of fever will definitely give many physicians headaches. This does not mean that doctors are not up to standard. You know, this is the heartfelt words of the old professor of internal medicine. In Read More …

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Can sharing razors spread HIV

There have been reports of infection caused by sharing razors in history, but it is controversial. A pair of young brothers in the United States have been infected with HIV one after another. They all suffer from hemophilia (a hereditary disease that is difficult to stop bleeding due to coagulation dysfunction caused by lack of coagulation factors). In order to control the disease, factor VIII needs to be imported for a long time. A was found to be HIV positive in 1985, while B was tested positive in 1991 and negative before. Researchers analyzed the virus sequences and found that the virus strains in the two bodies were highly similar, If blood transfusion products cause B infection, Then the viruses Read More …

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Can women infected with AIDS still give birth to healthy babies?

Answer this question first, HIV-positive mothers can also give birth to normal and healthy babies. The recognized transmission routes of HIV mainly include blood, mother-to-child transmission and sexual transmission. However, mother-to-child transmission often breaks the hearts of the kind public: [Why should newborn children also suffer from this crime? [The so-called mother-to-child transmission of HIV (also known as vertical transmission), Refers to HIV-infected mothers, HIV is transmitted to the fetus/infant during pregnancy, during childbirth and during lactation after pregnancy. Without any intervention measures, The probability of mother-to-child transmission is between 15% and 45%. However, if timely intervention measures are taken before or during pregnancy (described later), the risk of infection can be controlled below 5%, and in some cases it Read More …

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The baby’s teeth should be checked regularly.

Children are in an active stage of growth and development. Some common oral diseases, such as dental caries and complications caused by dental caries, abnormal tooth development and children’s bad oral habits, will affect the development of children’s jaws and occlusion. According to the characteristics of children’s growth and development, early intervention of these diseases can avoid or reduce the harm of diseases to oral health. Therefore, regular examination, early diagnosis and early treatment are particularly important. (Oral Imaging Equipment) 1. Children’s first oral examination should be within half a year after the eruption of the first deciduous tooth (about 6 months old). Doctors can judge the risk of caries and provide targeted oral hygiene guidance. 2. Routine oral examinations Read More …

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Is HIV drugs really free in China?

Yes, antiviral drugs for HIV treatment in China are free of charge. Previous situation Before 2002, domestic infected persons had to take antiviral drugs at their own expense or relying on some international cooperation agencies and public welfare organizations. The cost of antiviral treatment per person per year could reach more than 100,000 RMB. After the localization of antiviral drugs, the treatment cost has dropped to about 3,000 ~ 5,000 yuan per person per year. In 2002, the Chinese government started the pilot work of free antiviral treatment in some poor areas. Post-2003 policies After the SARS epidemic in 2003, the state attached great importance to public health safety. AIDS was incorporated into the national development strategy and promulgated the Read More …

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How to find out AIDS

What should I do? The simplest and most correct answer is to [find a doctor]. In medicine, except for a few diseases such as [colds] that will heal themselves over a period of time, Most diseases will gradually progress if they are not treated in time, and so will AIDS. AIDS itself cannot kill the dead, but after the virus infects the human body, it will slowly destroy the human immune system (2-10 years), and finally the human body will lose immunity. A body without immunity is like a country without an army. It is easy for enemies (other germs and tumors) to defeat this country. Where to? Suspected HIV infection must be checked at the local CDC or hospital Read More …