Pediatrician Cui Yutao: Rotavirus Diarrhea Does Not Need Antibiotics

Editor’s Note: What is rotavirus There is a virus that mainly invades infants and young children. After being invaded by it, infants and young children develop mild upper respiratory tract symptoms in the early stage, which will soon cause vomiting and acute diarrhea, and often dehydration. Because the virus looks like a wheel under an electron microscope, it is called [rotavirus]. Rotavirus can invade people of any age, often affecting children under 6 years old, and children under 1 year old are high-risk groups. The younger the age, the more severe the symptoms. Symptoms are characterized by acute watery stool, so it is especially easy to cause dehydration. In the early stage of rotavirus diarrhea, liquid containing certain electrolytes, such Read More …

Truth, young children have their teeth cut off? No, this is mostly bottle caries!

I don’t know if any parents or friends have ever seen such news: [a three-year-old boy bit his classmate and was cut off four front teeth by the other grandmother]. The news said that a kindergarten child and his classmate had a fight because he bit the other party and was retaliated by the other party’s family and cut off four front teeth in his mouth. In order to prove the truth of the matter, the news also has a picture: The incident was really appalling. Therefore, many media reprinted it one after another. Netizens were shocked and made comments such as “What’s wrong with this society” and “Bad people are getting older”. Some even swore loudly that “the murderer Read More …

The disease that makes the eyes red is pink eye?

Red eyes are a very common problem. Under normal conditions, if you rub your fingers, your eyes will turn red, but they will recover soon. Bacteria, viruses, allergies, chemicals or other diseases can cause eye infection, redness and [pink eye]. At this time, the main reason is congestion and edema of a transparent layer of membrane above the white eye, and sometimes similar problems will occur on the inner side of the eyelid. Allergic pink eye and chemicals are not contagious. Allergens may include pollen, cosmetics, perfume or animal fur, and chemicals may be bleach, wax on furniture, etc. And we often say, spring more common [pink eye], refers to virus and bacterial infection caused by infectious conjunctivitis. Hands are Read More …

The wound treatment seems simple, and if you are not careful, you will get into big trouble.

There are many contacts with patients in the hospital, and many strange things are really encountered. For example, when I was practicing in the wound center of the hospital (a place where people change dressings), I met an old lady from a remote mountainous area. As soon as she entered the clinic, a stench came on her face. Looking back, the dried left lower limb grew a lump of [cauliflower]-a festering malignant tumor. Further inquiries about the medical history, the original old lady two years ago accidentally scalded the left calf, but has not taken it seriously, intermittently using folk prescriptions to apply external application to herself. For more than two years, the wound has not healed, repeated suppuration and Read More …

Is it because of tuberculosis that you sweat at night?

One symptom that outpatient doctors often hear is [night sweat] [deficiency sweat]. Even if you are not a doctor, you must have met family and friends who said you have [night sweat] [deficiency sweat]. In fact, night sweats are very common, to the extent of what? A study on night sweats surveyed 2,267 patients who saw family doctors and found that 41% of them had more or less night sweats. Is night sweat what? Night sweat refers to sweating secretly without one’s awareness, and this kind of situation mostly occurs during sleep. Night sweat is called [night sweat] in English and [sleep sweat] in Japanese. These two foreign language words can more directly and clearly reflect the meaning of night Read More …