"The combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine effectively blocks the development of severe cases to critical illness" - visited Zhang Zhongde, an expert of the medical treatment group of the Gansu Working Group of the Comprehensive Group of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council

Xinhua News Agency, Lanzhou, October 27 title: "The combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine effectively blocks the development of severe cases to critical diseases"

-- Visited Zhang Zhongde, an expert in the medical treatment group of the Gansu Working Group of the Comprehensive Group of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council

Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhang Yujie and Zhang Zhimin

From 24:00 on October 18 to 26, there were 55 confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia in Gansu Province. What are the characteristics of patients in this outbreak? What treatments have been taken? In the prevention and control of the epidemic, how can people strengthen prevention? On the afternoon of the 26th, a Xinhua reporter interviewed Zhang Zhongde, an expert of the medical treatment group of the Gansu Working Group of the Comprehensive Group of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council and vice president of the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Q: What are the characteristics of patients in this outbreak?

A: First, unlike in the past, there are fewer patients with fever in Gansu this time, but most of the patients have dry and hot symptoms such as dry mouth, dry throat, dry cough, and some people have headaches, joint pain, runny nose and other cold symptoms. Second, there are more elderly patients, the vast majority of patients are over 50 years old, and there are 9 cases of severe patients over 70 years old. Third, most patients have underlying diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, chronic lung diseases, etc. Coupled with the rapid transmission rate of Delta strains, high viral load, long negative time, and short time of aggravation, the difficulty of treatment has increased.

Q: What is the approach to treatment? The result?

A: In view of the above situation, the national, provincial and municipal medical teams have worked together to adopt the method of integrating traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, which has effectively blocked the development of severe cases to critical diseases. In view of the patient's dryness and coldness, we added traditional Chinese medicines to nourish the yin, replenish the qi, straighten out the cold, and effectively alleviated the patient's dry mouth, dry throat, dry cough and other symptoms. Especially in patients with fever, it is very rare to achieve body temperature control within 36 to 48 hours. In addition to traditional Chinese medicine, we have also adopted a variety of treatment methods such as convalescent plasma and neutralizing antibodies, and achieved good clinical results.

Q: What other good suggestions do you have for epidemic prevention and control?

A: First, it is recommended that citizens strictly abide by the local epidemic prevention and control policies, do not go out unless necessary, wear masks, wash their hands frequently, and ventilate more. The second is to keep warm, especially to protect the head, neck, feet and other parts. The third is to eat less spicy, less tobacco and alcohol, eat more vegetables and more soup, and supplement food that nourishes the yin and moisturizes the lungs. The fourth is to ensure rest and enhance resistance. In short, strengthening our own prevention and control is the greatest contribution to the fight against the epidemic. (End)