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"Today's lecture is really eye-opening, the ocean of health knowledge is unfathomable!" Zhao Guoqiang returned home and hung up his coat while excitedly sharing it with his family.
Although the 56-year-old retired postman is retired, he is full of enthusiasm for life, especially the learning of health knowledge, and always actively participates in the study, hoping that he can become healthier and healthier.
Unfortunately, his brother Zhao Guoan did not have such luck. Although Zhao Guoan has always adhered to a healthy lifestyle, such as going to bed early and waking up early, and loving sports, he neglected regular check-ups and early attention to symptoms, which directly led to his unfortunate death.
Zhao Guoan's misfortune began with a seemingly common cold two years ago. His cough continued, but as a retired worker with a regular life, he thought it was just a sign of his old age and declining natural resistance, so he didn't pay much attention to it and didn't get a medical check-up in time.
This negligence, combined with a lack of awareness of tuberculosis as a disease, has allowed the condition to worsen unknowingly.
It wasn't until half a year later that Zhao Guoan finally went to the hospital because of a persistent cough and obvious weight loss.
After X-rays and a series of tests, doctors confirmed that he had advanced tuberculosis.
The doctor told him that if he came for a check-up at the beginning of the cough, the tuberculosis could be effectively controlled with prompt medication.
The doctor's words shocked Zhao Guoqiang, who never imagined that his brother would end his life because of momentary neglect.
The doctor told Zhao: "Many people think that as long as they have a regular life, their health will be guaranteed, but in fact, early identification and treatment of diseases are equally important. Sometimes, ignorance can indeed be fatal. ”
During Zhao Guoan's treatment, although the doctors tried their best to control the disease through medication, the results were not satisfactory because they were detected too late.
Zhao Guoqiang accompanied his brother and witnessed the destruction of tuberculosis on a healthy body, which made him deeply aware of the importance of health knowledge.
Through the doctor's explanation, Zhao Guoqiang learned that tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is mainly transmitted through the air.
It can be effectively treated with conventional drugs in the early stages, but once the optimal time for treatment is missed, the disease can be extremely life-threatening.
The doctor also showed him some statistics about tuberculosis: about 10 million people worldwide are infected every year, and many of them die because they are not treated in time.
This information deeply touched Zhao Guoqiang and made him realize that while it is important to maintain a healthy lifestyle, it is equally important to combine regular check-ups with alertness to symptoms.
Since then, he has begun to actively advocate in the community, especially the middle-aged and elderly, that they should pay attention to physical examinations and pay enough attention to any unusual physical symptoms.
This experience begs the question: how can society and medical institutions raise public awareness and early diagnosis rates in the face of a disease as preventable and treatable as tuberculosis?
To address this, consideration should be given to the use of modern technology, such as smartphone apps and online health platforms, to provide regular health reminders and disease education.
These platforms can provide personalized check-up reminders based on the user's health data and increase their focus on health information by increasing the user's engagement.
At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the publicity of public health problems such as tuberculosis, and comprehensively raise the public's awareness of the basic knowledge and prevention strategies of these diseases through community activities, media advertisements and school education.
These measures can significantly improve the early diagnosis rate of tuberculosis, thereby reducing deaths due to the late detection of the disease.
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