Doctor Zhao, help!

Chapter 275 Thrift
Li Weidong gave some more instructions, and Lin Haizhou went home to rest after get off work. This 24 hours really exhausted Lin Haizhou.

Zhao Sheng will start a new 24-hour director shift now.

It was so early in the morning that there was naturally no situation that required Zhao Sheng to deal with. After all, there were several attending doctors, resident doctors and regular training doctors here.

So, the director is on duty, it's quite metaphysical.

If there were nothing that required a director-level doctor to deal with that day, it would have been a really relaxing day.

The directors of other departments are basically like this. They come every day to check on the conditions of seriously ill and difficult patients and assign tasks. As for other trivial things, naturally someone will do it.

Next, Zhao Sheng took Li Mujia and several attending doctors, as well as resident doctors and regular training doctors, to go for ward rounds.

Half an hour later, after checking the room, Zhao Sheng returned to the director's office, sat on the sofa, and made a pot of tea.

I hope today won't be a busy shift.

Zhao Sheng thought while sipping tea.

However, Zhao Sheng's relaxing time did not last long, because the head nurse Zhou Hong hurried into the director's office and said to Zhao Sheng: "Director Zhao, there is a patient with food poisoning who will be sent to him soon."

"Huh? Food poisoning again?"

Zhao Sheng stood up. He had just dealt with a tragic case of [Sour Soup Poisoning] in a family of six, only the father and son were left, and now it happened again?

"Yes, this time it's a family of five."

Head nurse Zhou Hong nodded and said.

"Let's go then."

Zhao Sheng said to Zhou Hong.

After a while, Zhao Sheng and Zhou Hong, as well as Li Mujia and another attending doctor Gao Jun were waiting.

The reason why the critical emergency center was established is to deal with this sudden critical and severe situation. According to the previous medical treatment process, critical and severe patients had to wait for emergency treatment before being triaged to various departments.

Now that the critical emergency center has been established, there will be no intermediate link. Instead, the hospital will make preparations in advance based on the condition of critically ill patients. When the patients arrive, they will directly enter the rescue treatment process.

In this way, the waiting time for treating patients is greatly shortened, and the golden treatment time for many acute diseases can be better grasped.

After a while, three ambulances rushed over and stopped at the entrance of the hospital. The trunk quickly opened, and emergency personnel helped a family of five from the trunk.

Zhao Sheng took a look and saw his grandparents, parents, and a little boy. They were really a family of five.

Moreover, looking at the faces of the family of five, their faces were all sallow, their steps were sloppy, and they could not help but feel like vomiting as they walked.

"Dr. Tan, what's going on?"

Zhao Sheng asked Tan Bo, the on-board emergency doctor.

"It was said that they used oil scraped from the range hood for cooking yesterday. The family started to feel sick and vomited at night. They were in the local hospital until the morning, and then they called an ambulance from our hospital."

Temple briefly explained the situation.

"Huh? Can the oil scraped off the range hood be used for cooking?"

Zhao Sheng was shocked when he heard this.

I believe everyone has had the experience of cleaning a range hood. The oil that comes out of the range hood is quite unpleasant. If you smell it for a while, you can't help but want to vomit. Do you still use this oil for cooking?
You should know that the oil in the range hood is often left and fermented for a long time, which will produce various powerful carcinogens.

"Who says it isn't?" Tan Bo also sighed.

"Okay, leave it to me."

Zhao Sheng nodded.

Then, Zhao Sheng came to the father of the family. This man seemed to be a middle-aged man in his 30s, with a sallow complexion and very weak.

Seeing Zhao Sheng coming, the middle-aged man said: "Doctor..."

"What's the main problem? When did it start?"

Zhao Sheng asked the middle-aged man.

Although I already knew the general situation from Tan Bo, face-to-face consultation was still necessary.

"Just yesterday afternoon, after eating dinner, I started feeling nauseous and vomiting, and my stomach was a little bloated."

The middle-aged man said weakly.

Next, the middle-aged man briefly explained the ins and outs of the matter to Zhao Sheng.

It turns out that what happened was like this. Yesterday, when he returned from a business trip, a big meal was prepared at home. His old mother even specially made his favorite fried meatballs. He happily enjoyed this rare warm time.

But what he didn't expect was that after dinner, he first developed nausea and vomiting, and even the child, his wife, and the elderly couple all developed symptoms one after another.

At this time, the middle-aged man realized that his family must have eaten something unclean.

After careful questioning, I found out that it was the old mother who used the oil scraped from the range hood for cooking.

She felt that the oil didn't look like much, and it would be a pity if it was poured out just like that.

Just use it for stir-fry, especially the fried meatballs.

The middle-aged man was doing business outside and had some knowledge. He immediately realized that the family had food poisoning, so he called 120 for emergency help and asked the whole family to drink soapy water to induce vomiting.

"You were right to induce vomiting then. You did a good job."

Zhao Sheng nodded, looked at the middle-aged man with some approval and said.

He was a little skeptical at first, but when the middle-aged man said this, he was sure that this family of five was poisoned by aflatoxin.

Aflatoxin is an extremely toxic substance, mainly produced by Aspergillus aflatoxin. Aflatoxin mainly contaminates grain, oil and its products, among which peanuts and corn are the most susceptible to contamination.

The waste oil scraped from the range hood is very suitable for producing aflatoxin.

Aflatoxin has long been classified as a Class I carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO) Cancer Research Agency. It is a class of extremely toxic compounds with similar structures, stable physical and chemical properties, and is not easily decomposed. Its toxicity is much higher than that of cyanide. Toxicity of chemicals, arsenic compounds and organic pesticides.

Among them, aflatoxin B1 is the most carcinogenic natural toxin among known carcinogens. Its acute toxicity is 10 times that of potassium cyanide and 68 times that of arsenic. It has a destructive effect on the liver tissue of humans and animals.

In addition, aflatoxin is mainly metabolized in the liver, so it causes the greatest damage to the liver, mainly including acute liver injury and induction of liver cancer. Under normal circumstances, ingesting 1 mg of aflatoxin may cause cancer; a one-time ingestion Just 20 milligrams can be fatal!

This is because after aflatoxin enters the liver, it will stimulate liver cells to produce oxidative stress, that is, a large amount of highly reactive molecules such as reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen free radicals will be produced in liver cells. These highly reactive molecules are too reactive and will harm cells. Various molecules react within it.

In the short term, aflatoxin causes the accumulation of large amounts of reactive oxygen species in liver cells, inducing cell death and leading to acute liver injury;
In the long term, the DNA of liver cells is attacked by reactive oxygen species induced by aflatoxin for a long time, leading to DNA oxidation, which will double the incidence of liver cancer!
From this point of view, this middle-aged man thought of inducing vomiting at that time and vomited out the food contaminated with aflatoxin as soon as possible, which actually saved the lives of the whole family.

Inducing vomiting as soon as possible will greatly reduce the intake of aflatoxins, and the damaged liver may still be able to recover.

(End of this chapter)