Little Li girl, who is in her 20s, has recently had serious "pneumonia" symptoms such as cough, chest tightness, and pleural effusion with her father, and the cause is a mystery, which really scares the family.
The 50-year-old Li is usually tough, but recently he inexplicably began to cough, often chest tightness, and did not get better for several days.
He went to the local hospital outpatient clinic to check, and the doctor told him that he had pneumonia and pleural effusion, and his condition was a bit serious. I thought it was just a little bit of a problem, but the doctor's words really frightened Old Li.
What worries Lao Li even more is that not long after, the baby daughter also had the same cough and chest tightness symptoms.
As for why he and his daughter developed these severe "pneumonia" symptoms, the local doctor did not find the exact cause.
"Chest tightness and pleural effusion can be big or small, in case it is a bad disease in the lungs, it is unbelievable!" Realizing the seriousness of the matter, the father and daughter duo, in order to further diagnose the situation, came to the respiratory department of a provincial hospital for treatment.
Chest CT examination shows that Lao Li has a right lung infection and a pleural effusion on the right side; the blood routine suggests a significant increase in eosinophils, and the remaining indicators are normal.
The doctor traced back to the source and learned that both father and daughter are natives of Zhejiang and like to eat aquatic products and pickled products on weekdays. Not long ago, a friend came to visit with freshly made drunken shrimp. Father and daughter, you and I, will soon eat a plate of drunken shrimp to the sky.
At this point, combined with the clinical symptoms and examination indicators of the father and daughter, the doctor highly suspected that the father and daughter were infected with parasites due to eating drunken shrimp raw. Subsequently, the diagnosis was confirmed by parasite testing, and both father and daughter were infected with lung flukes.
After the diagnosis was confirmed, the respiratory physician performed antiparasitic treatment on the father and daughter. The strange "pneumonia" that made them miserable and frightened was actually caused by a small bug, "After eating for so many years, how could it be knocked down this time?" When the Father and Daughter of the Li family left the hospital, they were still a little confused.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > pathogenesis of lung flukes</h1>
Lung fluke larvae and adult worms migrate or settle in human tissues and organs causing mechanical damage, as well as immune responses caused by antigenic substances such as insect metabolites. The pathogenesis process is slow, the early symptoms are not obvious, and the incubation period is not easy to determine. A few days to 1 month after infection, symptoms develop as late as 1 to several years. Clinical according to the main injury site can be divided into thoracic lung type, brain type, hepatic type, skin type and subclinical type, of which the thoracic lung type is the most common.
According to the doctor, lung trematodiasis, also known as lung and breeding trematodiasis, this parasite generally parasitizes a variety of snails, crab shrimp and cockroaches, infected brook crabs or caddisflies after death limb rupture can also pollute water sources. People are often infected by eating raw food or eating infected aquatic products that are not fully cooked, or drinking contaminated water raw.
In China, there are as many as 24 provinces and municipalities where lung flukes are present, including Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Northeast China, Yunnan, Guizhou, Chongqing and other places. After human infection with pulmonary trematodiasis, the early manifestations are mainly abdominal pain and diarrhea, loss of appetite, chest tightness and cough, and pleurisy symptoms occur after invading the lungs.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > doctor's reminder</h1>
Parasitic infection is highly hidden, depending on the type and location of the infected parasite and the human immune status, clinical signs and symptoms are also different, must be paid great attention to.
For some unexplained clinical symptoms, such as fever, allergies, cough, vomiting, chest tightness, abdominal pain and diarrhea, etc., it is necessary to conduct screening tests for parasitic infections to avoid delaying the disease.
Preventing disease from entering the mouth is key to preventing infection with foodborne parasitic diseases. Do not eat half-raw or uncooked meat and fish, shrimp and crabs, people with raw food habits, at least twice a year for intestinal parasite prevention tests.