Chapter 700: Even if you kidnap Gretel, take him to the palace!
How to judge?
Gretel met Elder Knox's eyes and smiled slightly. In his smile, his thoughts were flying and he was full of nostalgia.
In their previous life, when they were in college, one of the brightest and most relaxing memories of their lives echoed in their minds. At that time, they had enough energy to study and read books and journal articles like crazy, and they used all kinds of imagination to find ways to compete with each other -
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There was once a competition where everyone competed to find diseases that looked like vampires and had been mistaken for vampires in history. What had they been, the symptoms of each, differential diagnosis, and treatment methods...
At that time, a group of students excitedly made a form for the boss. Among the list of diseases listed was this one.
Gretel failed to make a quick judgment before because he was not familiar with dermatology and there were too many interference factors. Fortunately, the assassin helped him make a clear diagnosis:
Well, this assassin, to be precise, is a case with suspected manic aggressive tendencies, which can be ruled out. The symptoms of mental illness are limited to sluggishness, apathy, slowness...
The cause of this group of refugees soon became clear in Grete's mind. After continuous physical examinations and interviews to determine their living environment, diet and disease process, Grete was basically certain:
What this group of people collectively suffer from is niacin deficiency, also known as pellagra.
Niacin, also known as vitamin B3, chemical name is picolinate-3-carboxylic acid, is one of the 13 essential vitamins for the human body.
Niacin deficiency can cause a range of skin, gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms:
The skin starts with erythema, followed by exudation, forming herpes and bullae, and then scabs, pigmentation, and the skin becomes rough and scaly, repeatedly. A very important feature is that the skin lesions are symmetrical, with the hands and feet showing
Glove-like and boot-cover-like changes;
The digestive tract, from the corners of the mouth, oral mucosa, tongue mucosa to gums, will become inflamed, swollen, ulcerated, and secondary infected. Therefore, the gums will recede, exposing the roots of the teeth, which look bloody like vampires;
The most common neuropsychiatric symptoms are dizziness, fatigue, insomnia, etc. If it is more severe, it will cause mental disorders, indifferent expressions, slow reactions, etc., leading to a state of dementia. Of course, severe malnutrition may also have similar symptoms.
Pay attention to differential diagnosis.
"In short, it's just hunger and unbalanced nutrition." He answered affirmatively:
"I asked them about their diet recently, and it was basically corn and potatoes, with very little else."
In fact, according to the information that Grete found in his previous life, pellagra broke out in the southern United States in the early 20th century, and most of the sick were residents of slums, especially black people. Therefore, pellagra was once considered
, is a disease only suffered by poor and lowly people.
Later, researchers found that these patients had almost the same eating habits: they liked to eat food composed of corn, fat meat and honey. This kind of food is relatively cheap, has a strong sense of satiety, and is a good food for the poor.
When looking up this paragraph, Gretel and his classmates once sighed to each other: The United States in the early 20th century was really rich. The poor, the black people in the slums, could actually afford to eat fat meat and honey!
However, fat meat, honey and corn fill their stomachs, but they cannot supplement them with necessary vitamins. There is an extreme lack of protein, leading to a lack of tryptophan, and finally, a lack of niacin.
Elder Knox thought for a moment and nodded slightly:
"When I was young, I traveled to the New World for a while. Those people...well, those slaves who worked on the farms had nothing to eat but corn all day long. Many of them had such symptoms.
;"
He stretched out his fingers and bent them one by one:
"Dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, and death gradually worsened. I lived among them for a period of time without being infected; I took one of them away to live elsewhere, and the people living around him were not infected either.
"
"Yes. It's just a symptom of nutritional deficiency and will not infect others." Grete nodded heavily:
"Just like people who lack meat are prone to night blindness, these people should be able to cure it if they eat well for a period of time and supplement meat and animal offal, especially liver."
The Baroness stood at the edge, looking at Elder Knox and then at Gretel, her brows furrowing more and more. After hearing the conclusion, she finally couldn't help but speak:
"So you're going to keep them until they heal?"
Grete choked. Judging from the look of the Baroness, she might have exploded immediately if she told her to stay. It was impossible to scratch herself, but depression and mania were quite possible. Ahem, after all, during this period, I
I have already found so many things for her...
And leaving it until it is cured, Grete can't do it. The symptoms of pellagra are so severe that even if they take daily niacin supplements and receive symptomatic treatment, they won't be cured in ten days and a half. What's more, Grete can't take out niacin.
Orally take pills or inject drops.
By supplementing nutrition and feeding them daily meat, including pork liver, mutton liver, and duck liver, it is estimated that they can recover in three months. Thank God. But I will never be able to stay here for three months.
"Forget it, send these people to my manor." The Baroness sighed, sighed, and sighed again:
"These people were brought here too suddenly. I don't know how many conspiracies are waiting for them later. You don't have to worry about handing them over to the city guards and putting them in prison. If you put them in my manor, there will still be people watching.
…”
Grete smiled sarcastically. This was a huge favor. Feeding them, giving them shelter, and sending people to watch over them were not a small amount of money and manpower consumed. If it wasn't to reassure herself, why would the Baroness do it?
Such a big capital?
He wanted to say a few words of thanks, but the Baroness ignored him and didn't even look at him. She turned to Elder Knox and bowed respectfully:
"Can you please send a disciple to take care of their health and record the improvement of their condition?"
"Of course." The elder agreed:
"This is a rare case, it's common and it's good for the kids. Jeffrey!"
"Why!"
The young priest ran over with an oak staff in one hand and his forehead in the other.
With the baroness coming forward and the priest of the God of Nature watching, they can ensure that these refugees will not be treated too badly. Grete breathed a sigh of relief and started thinking crazily:
How can I thank her?
Is it too much to give money?
Or, the assassin who was sold today will transfer the contribution points given by Black Crow Swamp to her?
Before she could think about it, the Baroness turned to Gretel and smiled slightly:
"Mage Nordmark, you owe me a favor. How do you plan to repay it?"
"How do you want me to pay it back?"
"Can you come to the palace now? The Queen is already very old and may give birth at any time. It would be better to take care of her closely..."
Well, actually, with people from the Spring Water Temple here, it doesn’t take much time to run back and forth. The problem is, this Nordmark mage is too capable. He has only been in the royal capital for a few days, and things are already happening against him.
It’s been a few waves!
No matter, for the safety of the queen, he must be moved to the palace as soon as possible and isolated from the outside world! Anyway, he has been in the hospital for so long, his success rate is obvious to all, and his skills are also practiced——
Even if he is kidnapped, he must be kidnapped into the palace!
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