Summer is coming
Mosquitoes are really unpreventable
Many families use mosquito coil liquid to repel mosquitoes
But be sure to pay attention
Ingestion can be life-threatening
Mistakenly ingested mosquito coils
A one-year-old baby is dying
"Blood pressure 132, unconscious, wild pumping, my God, hurry up and arrange gastric lavage." The patient, who made the medical staff so anxious, was named Beibei, who was only one year and three months old and had become life-threatening due to his accidental ingestion of mosquito coils.
During the ambulance transfer, the doctor quickly learned the composition of mosquito coil liquid: perflumethrin, tetraflumethrin, diethyl ether, the former two are insecticides. Combined with the condition of Bebe convulsions, pulmonary edema, and impaired consciousness, the doctor preliminarily diagnosed that Beibei should be organic solvent poisoning, and such poisoning has no specific antidote...
The doctor explained that taking mosquito coil liquid by mistake will cause lung damage in the short term, and if the situation is serious, it will cause respiratory distress syndrome in the short term, and in the long term, it will cause lung fibrosis damage, and this damage is irreversible.
The doctor learned from communication with Bebe's parents that the child accidentally took mosquito coil liquid, and the specific dose is unknown. The doctor can only tell the truth: "The overall situation is not optimistic, the blood oxygen situation is particularly bad, there is still bleeding in the lungs, the convulsions are relatively long, and now I can only try to stabilize the child's vital signs, and then treat after transport." Listening to the doctor's explanation, the child's father broke down emotionally and cried.
In order not to delay the follow-up treatment, Bei Bei was transferred by the doctor to the intensive care department of the children's hospital for systematic treatment, and the CT test showed that the child's brain had no obvious lesions, but the lung condition was not optimistic, and white lung appeared in both lungs. Because organic solvent poisoning can cause nerve damage, in Bebe's treatment, not only intensive care medicine, but also neurology and respiratory medicine are needed to reduce the pressure on the child's lungs through hormone therapy.
Through treatment, Beibei's pulmonary edema was relieved the next day, and after being out of danger of life, she was transferred to the respiratory medicine department for treatment, and after more than 20 days of long rescue treatment, Beibei was finally successfully discharged from the hospital and turned into safety.
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From: People's Network Science Popularization
Source: Sichuan CDC