sihai.com reported that Chen Xiao, a junior in the school of materials science and engineering of Xihua University, had taken a cold bath before the Qingming Festival but was admitted to the Department of critical medicine of the hospital. Acute liver failure leads to hepatic encephalopathy and severe coma. What's more, at present, he needs liver transplantation to save his young life. So although the weather is getting hotter, for those with poor physical fitness, it's better to avoid taking a cold bath.
Took a cold bath
Half a month later, acute liver failure was sent to ICU
On the morning of April 29, in the first inpatient building of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chen Xiao's elder sister, Chen Yu, anxiously waited for his brother's news. She could only visit once a day and only enter one person at a time. She was worried about his condition.
Send me a message on the 19th that I have a cold. Let me transfer some money to him. "Chen said he thought it was a common cold, but on the 25th he rushed to the hospital after receiving the phone call, only to find out that his younger brother had been sent to the intensive care unit, and he was in shock. 'I'm calling my mother. She's in Suining. My father works outside. I'm the only one in Chengdu. "Chen told Chengdu Business Daily.
The doctor's diagnosis is acute liver failure, which is very serious. Chen Xiao's parents rushed to the hospital, anxiously guarding outside the ICU. Early on the morning of the 28th, the doctor also called to say that Chen Xiao's condition had worsened again.
How can liver failure? Chen told Chengdu Business Daily that doctors speculated that it might have something to do with his brother's cold shower before.
Yu Qinghai, Chen Xiao's classmate and roommate, told Chengdu Business Daily that one day before Qingming Festival, Chen Xiao went to take a bath after class in the evening, but the bathhouse was closed, so he went back to the dormitory to take a cold bath. The next day, Chen Xiao caught a cold. At first, he didn't care. After a week or two, he didn't go to see a doctor. We went to get the medicine on the 19th and got up on the morning of the 21st. We found that he turned yellow and asked him to check, but he didn't go either. '
Yu Qinghai said that it wasn't until the afternoon of the 24th that Chen Xiao, who felt uncomfortable, asked for money from home before he went to the Affiliated Hospital of University of Electronic Science and Technology (Qingshuihe campus) for examination. The doctor asked him to stay in hospital. Yu Qinghai and his classmates also accompanied him to sort out the daily necessities. In the early morning of the 25th, Yu Qinghai received a phone call from the hospital saying that Chen Xiao's condition had worsened. After Chen arrived, Chen Xiao was transferred to the ICU of West China Hospital of Sichuan University. 'suddenly, he is in good health and seldom takes any medicine. "Yu Qinghai said.
Doctor: serious
Liver transplantation is the only way to save lives
Liang Guanlin, a doctor in the Department of critical medicine of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, said that at present, Chen Xiao's condition is very serious, the whole person is in a coma state, and his hepatic encephalopathy is also in a very serious state, with liver and kidney failure, respiratory failure and poor coagulation function.
Liang Guanlin told Chengdu Business Daily that liver failure is a clinical syndrome caused by large-scale necrosis of liver cells, which leads to serious liver function damage. It has many causes and is the common manifestation of all liver diseases. The reason for Chen Xiao's sudden liver failure is that the doctor suspected that he had liver disease before. Because he didn't pay attention to it in general, and this cold shower and cold, the liver disease was aggravated. "We did the corresponding examination, and the size of his liver was very small. "This is serious liver failure, and liver transplantation is the only way to treat it, but the risk and cost of liver transplantation are also high," Liang said.
On the 28th, Chen Yu went to line up for his brother Ganyuan. "At first, my father said, can I use his liver? But the doctor said that my brother's condition must be a whole liver transplant. '
Poor households in rural areas
Students and teachers raised a crowd for him
According to the conservative estimate of doctors, the cost of liver transplantation is at least 500000 yuan, but I just graduated from school. My mother has no job and my father works in other places. My family's economic situation is not good. Now, the medical expenses in ICU alone are 20000 yuan a day. Although Chen Xiao bought personal accident insurance, most of the cost of the transplant could not be reimbursed. My relatives have borrowed it all the time now, but they still haven't collected enough money for the operation. 'they all came today. '
It is understood that Chen Xiao's family is from Suining Chuanshan District, and their family is a poor household. Hundreds of thousands of medical expenses are astronomical to them. Yu Qinghai, together with his classmates and counselors, launched an online crowdfunding for Chen Xiao on the evening of the 27th, hoping to raise medical expenses.
'send the information that day, and everyone is forwarding it everywhere to raise money. Yu Qinghai said that the students of the whole school, including the counselors and teachers who had taken the class, were forwarding donations to Chen Xiao when they heard the news. Chengdu Business Daily noted that as of the afternoon of the 29th, the goal of online crowdfunding was 300000 yuan, and 220000 yuan had been raised.