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In Sanmenxia, Henan, a father covered with cement dust, in order to treat his son every day to carry 20 tons, a total of 400 bags of cement, since October 2019, 6-year-old Xuan Xuan was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which is a common blood cancer, since then began a long road of treatment, has spent about 500,000 or 600,000 yuan. In order to raise medical expenses, Xuanxuan's father had to resist cement every day to raise medical expenses.
In March this year, Xuan Xuan's condition recurred, and he continued to have a fever, and transplantation became a necessary choice, but the high cost of transplantation made this poor family even worse. Xuan Xuan's father said that no matter how hard and tired he was, he would have to give his children a good look. But in this long process of treatment, how much bitterness will be added, we do not know.
So what is acute lymphoblastic leukemia? Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a non-contagious malignant tumor disease in which B or T line cells originating in lymphocytes are abnormally proliferated in the bone marrow, with anemia, fever, gastrointestinal bleeding, and organ tissue infiltration as common symptoms. It is more common in children and rare in adults, and treatment can be chemotherapy, radiation therapy, bone marrow transplantation, induction therapy, etc.
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In order to avoid many children being harmed, it is necessary to understand the factors and symptoms of leukemia.
1. Repeated fever: repeated fever and ineffective use of antibiotics, and fatigue will occur;
Second, anemia: anemia generally appears in the early stage, and patients will also have fatigue, decreased appetite, pallor and other manifestations;
3. Bleeding: the bleeding part can affect the whole body, such as nasal bleeding, ecchymosis, bleeding gums, skin petechiae, and can also be manifested as intraauricular hemorrhage, fundus bleeding, gastrointestinal or respiratory tract and other visceral bleeding;
Fourth, bone and joint pain: if the child continues to have osteoarticular pain, do not think that it is growth pain, which may be a precursor to leukemia;
V. Hepatosplenial lymphadenopathy: Hepatosplenomegaly is generally difficult to find, but some patients will have cervical lymphadenopathy, and once found, they should be vigilant.
Although the current domestic treatment and recovery rate of leukemia is still quite high, I hope that every parent will pay more attention to it in the usual, and now environmental pollution, food reconciliation and other external factors are affected, it is easy to hurt children, and I hope that every child in the world can be treated kindly.
Note: Part of the content comes from Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Physician of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Dr. Cheung Ming Fai, Department of Hematology;
Link: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/369893929
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