Before the tick left, tsutsugamushi came again. A series of "insect killings" have upset many citizens. What insect is so fierce? What is tsutsugamushi? How to rescue after being bitten by tsugamushi?
Reporters interviewed a number of CDC and hospital experts yesterday to learn that tsutsugamushi disease is not uncommon in Guangdong, and there are specific drugs to treat it when it is found as soon as possible. There has been no case of death in Guangzhou for five years, so people do not need to panic. But experts also remind that June to October is the peak period of tsutsugamushi disease. Many tsutsugamushi patients will confuse the disease with the common cold and fever, thinking that taking some medicine will be OK. As a result, the disease will be delayed and finally become severe.
Foshan grandma has been hospitalized for nearly two weeks
Foshan first people's hospital reported that it admitted a 66 year old female patient who was bitten by tsutsugamushi on September 2. Due to the aggravation of the disease, the patient died on September 15. It is reported that in June this year, the hospital also received a female patient with the same disease, and eventually died.
According to the first people's Hospital of Foshan City, Ms. fan had unexplained high fever symptoms on August 27, which was above 39 degrees Celsius and accompanied by cough. After six days of treatment in Sanshui hospital, the condition did not improve. The high fever lasted for six days, coughed for one day, and became delirious on September 2. Ms. fan immediately transferred to Foshan first hospital for rescue.
Zhou Lixin, director of the ICU of a hospital in Foshan City, said that the patients live in the town and street, which is the junction of urban and rural areas, are easy to contact the wild and easily bitten by mosquitoes. After the disease was confirmed, although a hospital in Foshan city gave the right medicine to the patient, the patient had belonged to the late stage of tsutsugamushi disease, and had multiple organ discomfort symptoms, including lung, liver, blood, etc. The most obvious manifestation is that the blood platelet is very low, and the final complications lead to death.
Tsutsugamushi disease
Scrub typhus, also known as scrub typhus, is an acute infectious disease caused by Rickettsia tsutsugamushi and transmitted by mite larvae. The disease was prevalent in the south of the Yangtze River before 1980s and spread to the north of the Yangtze River after 1980s. The epidemic has obvious seasonal and regional characteristics. Generally, cases begin to appear from May, with the peak from June to August. But there are also year-round patterns, in our country all the year round. The incubation period of this disease is 4-20 days, generally 10-14 days. It is characterized by high fever, toxemia, rash, eschar and lymphadenopathy.