Chapter 1066 Red Heart Sugar Cane

Xiao Kai's expression became more and more serious as he listened to the crying opposite him.

"Let her come with the patient quickly." Zhou Congwen said in a deep voice after hearing the simple description.

"Ah?" Xiao Kai subconsciously thrust, but nodded immediately, "I contact the 120 ambulance of the Central Hospital, you bring the child!"

The other party was stunned for a moment, but Xiao Kai did not give the opponent any chance to hesitate and made a decision to make up for this matter.

Xiao Kai must have done 120% of the things arranged by Professor Zhou Congwen and Zhou, and he didn't even ask why.

After arranging it in ten minutes, Xiao Kai walked back with his cell phone.

"Professor Zhou, the arrangement has been made." Xiao Kai first said the arrangement.

"Yes." Zhou Congwen nodded and glanced at his watch, "It will take two hours?"

"Absolutely." Xiao Kai said, "Professor Zhou, is it very serious?"

When he saw Zhou Congwen ask about time directly, he had no intention of leaving, and he knew that the patient's condition might be beyond his imagination.

The patient is a 14-year-old boy. It is said that after dinner at home, he ate sugarcane and did his homework. As he wrote, he started to feel nauseous and vomit, and then fell into a coma.

Xiao Kai's first impression should be food poisoning, but the patient had gastric lavage, but he did not improve.

Xiao Kai’s next feeling was that the patient was likely to aspirate sugarcane bagasse by mistake, resulting in suffocation.

But this diagnosis has nothing to do with nausea and vomiting, just think about it as a possible diagnosis.

"Director Xiao knows that eating sugarcane can kill people?" Zhou Congwen asked directly when he saw Xiao Kai's dew.

Xiao Kai shook his head blankly.

Sugarcane? Is it really a respiratory foreign body caused by sugarcane bagasse and there is a problem with respiratory problems?

Nor can it be done, Xiao Kai recalled carefully. He just called the emergency department doctor but did not say that there was a similar situation.

"Don't worry, I hope it's not Red Heart Sugarcane." Zhou Congwen said with some sorrow.

"What?" Xiao Kai didn't seem to hear it clearly and asked, "Professor Zhou, isn't red-heart sugarcane good? I heard that red-heart sugarcane is particularly sweet, the redr it becomes sweeter."

"Hehe." Zhou Congwen sneered.

"It's hard, right?"

"At this time, sugarcane has not yet come down, and all the frozen sugarcane for sale last year are sold." Zhou Congwen said, "It is stored for a long time, sold for winter, and thawed after being frozen. At appropriate temperatures, sugarcane is prone to fungal reproduction."

"Well……"

"There are also many people who buy immature sugarcane and store it because it is easy to break down. This kind of sugarcane is more likely to cause mildew and cause big troubles.

Moldy sugarcane has low sugar content, has an acid enzyme flavor and wine lees flavor. It can cause poisoning after consumption, and is more common in children."

"Is red-heart sugarcane caused by mold?" Xiao Kai was surprised.

"Although I can't say that, there are sugar cane that is normally red-hearted, and it's very sweet. But it's not good to try poison with your body. Once you eat moldy and red-colored sugar cane, it's easy to get a big deal."

Xiao Kai didn't understand very much, he looked at Zhou Congwen in confusion.

"At present, it is believed that the mold that causes sugarcane spoilage is sarcospora. This bacteria is a plant saprophytic bacteria distributed worldwide, and the toxin it produces is 3-nitropropionic acid."

"3-nitropropionic acid is a neurotoxin and is the main toxic substance that causes moldy sugarcane poisoning.

This neurotoxin is quickly absorbed after entering the human body, causing extensive central nervous system damage in a short period of time, interfering with the metabolism of intracellular enzymes, enhancing the permeability of capillaries, and thus causing cerebral edema, brain hernia, etc..”

Xiao Kai shivered.

He didn't know what 3-nitropropionate is, but the four words "neurotoxin" are enough to make people frightened. In addition, Zhou Congwen mentioned brain hernia, brain edema, and Xiao Kai followed the trend and associated brain tissue necrosis, vegetatives, etc.

If you can eat sugarcane, something will happen. Xiao Kai thinks it is too unlucky.

Wherever you go, there are actually such things.

"If 3-nitropropionic acid poisoning is really divided into mild and severe." Zhou Congwen said seriously, "If it is mild, it will manifest as temporary gastrointestinal dysfunction, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, etc., and no diarrhea.

Neurological symptoms, headache, dizziness, darkness in front of the eyes, diplopia, etc. mild patients recover quickly, while severe patients have worsened gastrointestinal symptoms, frequent nausea and vomiting, and may cause drowsiness."

“…”

All of them are mild patients who suffer from drowsiness? Xiao Kai is silent.

But since it is a patient with neurotoxin poisoning, it seems that it can be accepted no matter what happens.

Moreover, Zhou Congwen just said that 3-nitropropionic acid is easily absorbed, which means that gastric lavage is basically useless.

When the patient was sent to the hospital, 3-nitropropionic acid was probably absorbed long ago and participated in the body's metabolism.

Just like, paraquat.

"Professor Zhou, where is the heavy duty?" Xiao Kai asked cautiously.

"If the intake is small, it's almost the same as mild. If the intake is large, there will be convulsions and coma next. Dean Xiao made a phone call later, will he have similar symptoms?"

"Yes." Xiao Kai nodded.

"The convulsions in severe patients are manifested as paroxysmal spasm. Each attack occurs for 1 to 2 minutes and can occur multiple times a day. After the seizure, the convulsions are in a coma, and the eyes are looking upward, and the pupils are diffused." Zhou Congwen continued, "This is a typical symptom and is easy to distinguish."

"So heavy!"

"Ha, this is all good. If the intake is too much, the patient will have neurological sequelae such as systemic spasmodic paralysis, cerebral cortical syndrome, etc. And..."

Zhou Congwen said and paused.

"Irreversible?" Xiao Kai asked.

Zhou Congwen nodded.

"..." Xiao Kai was stunned.

He had thought it was just food poisoning and he could just be sent to the hospital, and nothing else was going to happen.

Didn’t I drink paraquat?

Although he followed Zhou Congwen's doctor's advice, Xiao Kai really didn't take this seriously.

However, after arranging all the trivial matters, I realized that the poison caused by moldy sugarcane contains 3-nitropropionic acid is so serious!

And there are also a series of neurological symptoms, plus the most scary three words irreversible, Xiao Kai finally knew why Zhou Congwen asked him to tell the patient to come to the provincial capital directly.

"Although few people die, they can't bear the sequelae alone." Zhou Congwen sighed, "The sequelae are mainly damage to the extrapyramidal system. The main symptoms include flexion, torsion, spasm, limb stiffness, and decreased tension when static."

"That is to say, if there are sequelae and the child's body is distorted, it will last for a lifetime?"

"Yes." Zhou Congwen nodded, "The reason I was sent to the provincial capital is that although the effect of 3-nitropropionate is irreversible, there are still some cerebral edema and other things that can be properly handled."

"For neurological and surgical diseases, the medical level in the provincial capital should be higher." Zhou Congwen said worriedly, "I hope the child will have nothing to do, so I will go back with a good time."

If you eat red-heart sugarcane, you can eat something wrong... It's just speechless.
Chapter completed!