The weather has been cloudy and unpredictable lately
Friends still remember to carry it hard
How many times the sudden after-work rain
How many pairs of shoes have been soaked in the soup?
The most worrying thing in the rainy season
It's that shoes and socks have a smell
Itchy toes with damp feet
Some people even have fever
Is this beriberi too?
Unconscient!
Doctors recommend seeking medical attention if you have symptoms
Don't buy some medicine yourself and "get it"
There's a reason behind it
Wading through water on a rainy day was diagnosed with leptoplasmosis
Severe cases are admitted to the ICU
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A man in his 40s after working in the field
Symptoms such as fever, headache, and calf pain appear
The emergency doctor of Haikou People's Hospital said
The patient had a fever for one day at the time of medical attention
There are no obvious wounds on the legs
But he had diabetes
Resistance is relatively low
After receiving the consultation, the doctor judged that he suspected that he was suffering from leptospirosis, and gave corresponding antibiotic treatment at that time, and then the body temperature slowly dropped, and the diagnosis of leptospirosis was confirmed after examination.
According to the doctor, as early as July 2023, he received a man in Haikou in his 50s, who was covered with water on the road after the heavy rain, he had wounds on his feet, and he had symptoms such as fever, calf pain, and headache after wading in sewage. At first, I thought it was an ordinary fever, but it did not improve after taking medicine, and the fever did not go away at 40 °C, and I went to the hospital for medical treatment on the third day.
After receiving the doctor, he found that the conjunctiva of the eye was hyperemic, the symptoms were suspected to be leptospirosis, and he had a history of contact with sewage, and was finally diagnosed with leptospirosis.
After identifying the cause, the doctor gave symptomatic treatment to the patient, and he was admitted to the emergency ICU for 3 days and transferred to a general ward.
The doctor said that leptoplasmosis is the final organ failure, and the risk of death is still relatively high, but if you seek medical attention in time, most antibiotics are effective for the treatment of leptoplasmosis, and the treatment effect of mild cases is generally better.
What is leptoplasmosis?
Leptoplasmosis is an acute infectious disease caused by leptospira infection, with typical symptoms such as high fever, headache, conjunctival injection, calf pain, fatigue, etc., and severe leptoplasmosis is characterized by jaundice, renal insufficiency and bleeding tendency, often known as Weil syndrome.
Leptoplasmosis is mainly transmitted through contact with infected rodent and pig excrement, etc., and can contaminate human water sources through animal feces, and when people have low immunity or broken skin, they are susceptible to infection when they come into contact with sewage.
Generally speaking
Be careful when the road is flooded after heavy rain
If there is a wound on the foot or leg
Try to avoid wading in stagnant water
Be careful when working in the fields
Because leptospira is also easy
Hidden in stagnant water contaminated with animal feces
If you find that you have "athlete's foot", you must pay attention to it
When you go out in the rainy season, pay attention to these two points after wading through the water!
But then again
Leptoplasmosis is uncommon after all
However, tinea pedis is a common condition on wet days
"Tinea pedis" is also commonly known as "athlete's foot"
Traditional Chinese medicine is also known as foot dampness, foot rot sores, beriberi sores, etc
It is one of the most common superficial mycoses in dermatology
It is said that "if one person gets athlete's foot, the whole family will be infected", and athlete's foot may also spread to other parts of his body. Picking other body parts without washing your hands after picking your feet may also cause tinea corporis, jock itch, tinea man, onychomycosis, etc.
When we wear slippers or go barefoot, we may get contaminated with the seeds (spores) of these fungi. In general, they are not pathogenic, but if they are in non-breathable shoes, the hot and moist soles of the skin, and the hypertrophic stratum corneum of the soles of the feet provide convenient conditions for the growth of fungi.
So everyone goes out during the rainy season
There are two things to remember after accidentally wading through the water
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- Wash your feet with water and soap and dry them to keep your skin dry.
- If shoes and socks are contaminated by rainwater, they should also be replaced in time if possible to prevent fungal and bacterial infections.
Special reminder
Use of public baths and communal slippers
Both are common routes of transmission for tinea pedis
If someone in your family is infected with tinea pedis
It may also lead to cross-transmission in families
If you have tinea pedis, why is it not recommended to apply medicine without authorization?
Treatment of tinea pedis
Topical antifungals are generally recommended
Such as bifonazole, terbinafine
Ketoconazole, luliconazole, amorolfen, etc
However, currently on the market
There are many drugs for the treatment of tinea pedis, and they are mixed
It is not recommended to buy and use it without authorization
There are several reasons for this
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- There are some "anti-pedia drugs" on the market, which are not fungicidal drugs, and can only improve symptoms in the short term, and will recur immediately once the drug is stopped.
- Tinea pedis is prone to recurrence, stubborn, and refractory to treatment, usually caused by informal treatment and inadequate treatment courses. For example, topical antifungal drugs such as bifonazole cream and terbinafine cream can significantly eliminate skin lesions within 1 week, but the fungus still exists in the stratum corneum of the patient, and it generally needs to be used for 1~2 months, and once the drug is stopped, it is very easy to cause the recurrence of skin lesions in patients.
- The treatment of tinea pedis often requires the selection of different dosage forms of antifungal drugs according to different types of tinea pedis. For example, cream and water should be selected for blistering and scaly type, powder can be given for impregnating erosion type, and preparations with strong exfoliation effect can be selected for hyperkeratosis type, and encapsulation treatment can be taken if necessary.
- Tinea pedis is also easy to be confused with other skin diseases, that is, if you have similar symptoms of tinea pedis, you may not get tinea pedis.
therefore
It is still recommended that patients seek medical treatment in a regular hospital
Rational use of medication under the guidance of a doctor
Xiaofang reminded at the end
Even if tinea pedis is completely cured
Under certain conditions
The fungus can also be reinfected
So, in the rainy season
It is still necessary to do a good job of personal cleaning
Wear more breathable clothes and stay dry!
END
Source: Hainan Client, Nanhai Net, Nanguo Metropolis Daily, People's Daily Science Popularization, Guangzhou Daily Health Appointment, Guangzhou Skin Disease Hospital, Tencent Medical Dictionary Editor: Zhang Xiang (trainee)
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