A 15-year-old girl took cold medicine and caused liver failure?
Elephant News reporter Jiang Mingyuan
"I also want to save the child by smashing the pot and selling iron, after all, he is the meat of our old couple's heart. Mr. Yang from Lushan, Pingdingshan, sat in front of his granddaughter's hospital bed, held his granddaughter's hand, and said with tears in his eyes.
On January 23, Elephant News reporters met Mr. Yang's granddaughter Xiao Zhe in the infectious disease ward of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University. The doctor told reporters that Xiao Zhe had acute liver injury and needed a liver transplant.
Mr. Yang introduced that his granddaughter Xiaozhe is 15 years old this year and has just entered the first year of high school, and usually boarding at school, because her parents are divorced, Xiaozhe's father works outside all the year round, and her granddaughter has grown up with their old couple since she was a child.
In November 2023, Xiao Zhe found out that he had a cold, so he went to buy cold medicine for 5 days and brought it to school. After taking the medicine, Xiao Zhebu not only had a low-grade fever, but her classmates also found that her eyes and hands were severely yellow. After that, Xiao Zhe asked his grandfather to take him to the hospital for examination, and after going to two hospitals, Xiao Zhe was transferred to the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University on November 29 and was diagnosed with "acute liver failure".
Liang Hongxia, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, told reporters that Xiao Zhe is an acute liver failure caused by drugs, "Drug-induced liver injury or liver failure is very common in clinical practice. ”
Liang Hongxia told reporters that after a period of conservative treatment, Xiaozhe's recovery was not ideal, "Her coagulation function is still very poor, and jaundice continues to rise, so we think that liver transplantation is the best way now." ”
Mr. Yang told reporters that Xiao Zhe's father was working outside the home to raise funds for surgery, "All our family's savings have been spent, and we have borrowed a lot of foreign debts." Mr. Yang looked at his granddaughter on the hospital bed and couldn't help but shed tears, "I told the child that there is really no way to mortgage the house first and take out some loans, and I have no other way to go." ”
Due to the special family situation of Xiaozhe and the relatively high cost of liver transplantation, Mr. Yang hopes to help his granddaughter through the power of society and the hospital. At the same time, Liang Hongxia also reminded: if there is a cold, you must go to a regular medical institution for treatment, and do not blindly use drugs at home, "because it is very common to take medicine to cause liver failure when you are sick, and sometimes the disease will progress quickly. ”