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Chapter 146 Common yet rare diseases
Seeing that Zhong Chenglong couldn't say which three words it was for a long time, Qin Jiang sighed and suddenly understood.

Zhong Xiguo asked anxiously from the side: "Doctor Qin, what is the disease of my son?"

Qin Jiang glanced at him and said, "Phenylketonuria."

Zhong Xiguo and Zhong Chenglong were both stunned when they heard this.

What is phenylketonuria?

Qin Jiang continued to explain: "Phenylketonuria is a relatively common metabolic disease, but your son's condition is very rare."

Zhong Xiguo was confused by Qin Jiang's words.

"It's not Dr. Qin. Is this disease common or rare?"

Qin Jiang continued: "The reason why this disease is common is because its prevalence is not low and many people have it."

"But the reason why it is said to be rare is because most of the disease is congenital. You can understand it as a genetic disease."

"Our country will conduct screening tests for this genetic disease in infants and young children, so if your son has this disease, it stands to reason that he should be tested when he is born."

"So it's a miracle that he can survive until now, and it's even more of a rare miracle that he got sick now."

After hearing what Qin Jiang said, everyone understood.

It turns out that the hospital will check for this disease at birth.

No wonder many babies have their blood taken by the hospital as soon as possible after birth, originally just for examination.

Qin Jiang looked at Zhong Xiguo and asked, "So when Zhong Chenglong was born, the hospital didn't give him a comprehensive examination, right?"

Zhong Xiguo said with some embarrassment: "At that time, we asked Mrs. Wen to deliver the baby at home, and we didn't go to the hospital or anything."

Qin Jiang looked at Zhong Xiguo in surprise and said very seriously: "What age are we in now? Why do we still find Wen Po to deliver the baby at home?"

"If something goes wrong, who among you can take the responsibility?"

In the past, people in ancient times went to Wenpo, but they did not have the medical conditions, so they could only give birth at home.

But now there are health clinics and hospitals in villages and towns. No matter what, you can’t find a stable woman to give birth to your baby at home!
Fortunately, the mother and child are safe, but even so, it may cause lifelong inflammation or gynecological diseases to the woman because of the lack of disinfection and sterilization.

If you are lucky enough to encounter an abnormal fetal position or a massive hemorrhage, it is very likely to cause one death and two lives!
At this time, Qin Jiang could only lament that Zhong Chenglong had a good life.

People with phenylketonuria need to maintain a low-ketone diet at all times, otherwise the condition will worsen.

This is also the most important means of treating this disease now - dietary therapy.

But Zhong Chenglong is in his early twenties, which means that he has had this disease for more than twenty years without knowing it, and he has no dietary restrictions. As a result, he only started to get sick today.

What is this if not a miracle?
Zhong Xiguo was also a little embarrassed when he heard Qin Jiang criticize that he should not find Wen Po to deliver the baby.

"The main reason is that my family is too poor to go to the hospital, so I chose to give birth at home."

"But as soon as Dr. Qin said this, we knew it. We will definitely not do this again in the future."

Qin Jiang glanced at Zhong Xiguo.

"Do you still have plans to have a second child?"

Zhong Xiguo smiled and was too embarrassed to talk anymore.

He did want to have a second child, but Liu Xiu's situation didn't allow it.

After all, at this age, giving birth to a child is an advanced maternal age, which will be very dangerous.

Qin Jiang continued: "As I said just now, this is a hereditary disease."

"And judging from our examination report, the reason why he got this disease is because of you."

Qin Jiang looked at the two of them and said, "You must be very close by blood, right? How did you get married in the first place?" Upon hearing what Qin Jiang said, the barrage in the live broadcast room immediately filled the screen.

"What does Dr. Qin mean by this? What does it mean to have a close blood relationship? Can a husband and wife still have a blood relationship?"

"It is best not to have a blood relationship between husband and wife, or else they will marry close relatives. I think Dr. Qin said so. I am afraid this is the case for this couple."

"No wonder Zhong Chenglong got this disease. It turns out that this is caused by incest marriage."

"Is incest marriage really so scary?"

"Upstairs, do you know the Emperor's family over there in my childhood? They are incestuous marriages. They say they want to maintain the noble royal bloodline and not let the royal bloodline be tarnished. You can go search and see what is going on with their children now. "

The more ignorant and backward a place is, the more consanguineous marriage is advocated.

There are two main reasons for this.

One is the lineage theory.

Some people always think that the reason why people are different is because of the blood or genes in the body, which determines whether a person is excellent or not.

This actually makes sense. After all, genes have a great impact on people.

Whether it is appearance, body shape, personality or even body organs, etc., they are all affected by genes.

But it is definitely a wrong idea to think that as long as close relatives marry, this genetic advantage can be maintained.

Various genetic diseases will occur in consanguineous marriages, and the probability will be greatly increased!
Another reason is related to the environment.

For example, in some remote mountain villages, there may be only dozens or hundreds of people in the village.

Because they have inconvenient transportation and don't go out often, they can live in isolation from the world.

As a result, the marriage partner can naturally only be chosen from within the village.

People who come and go to the village become relatives. The more marriages there are, the more deformed the offspring will be and the greater the problem will be.

Zhong Xiguo obviously belongs to the second type.

After Qin Jiang's patient explanation, Zhong Xiguo realized the dangers of incest marriage.

He didn't know what to say for a moment, and he even felt that he had no face to face Zhong Chenglong.

"This...this is actually caused by me?"

Zhong Xiguo couldn't forgive himself.

After all, Zhong Xiguo has put a lot of pressure on him since he was a child to urge Zhong Chenglong to go to college.

Including this time when Zhong Chenglong had physical problems, Zhong Xiguo did not choose to believe him at the first time, but felt that Zhong Chenglong had learned bad things in a big city.

As a result, after a long time of trouble, the root cause of all the problems turned out to be myself.

Seeing Zhong Xiguo's reaction, Qin Jiang explained: "You don't have to blame yourself too much. Phenylketonuria is not an incurable disease, nor is it a very troublesome disease."

"As long as Zhong Chenglong can take his medicine on time and maintain a low-keto diet for the rest of his life, there won't be any big problems, and he will definitely be able to continue studying."

"And your son is already the lucky one. After all, his intelligence has no obvious flaws. He can even be said to be smarter than the average person. This is something to be thankful for."

After Qin Jiang finished speaking, he pointed to the QR code on the table.

"The total cost of diagnosis and treatment this time is 46,000 yuan. After discounting it for you, we will collect 31,000 yuan and you can pay the bill. You can pay 4,000 yuan first this time."

Zhong Xiguo said thank you and quickly took out his mobile phone to scan the QR code to pay.

(End of this chapter)