Live broadcast: I am an upright Chinese medicine practitioner, and all my patients died online

Chapter 310 The Horror of Underlying Diseases

After hearing Zheng Hong's question, Qin Jiang pointed to the QR code on the table and said, "I will prescribe some medicine for you later. Take it first and control your blood sugar level."

"Because you are still in the early stage and it is a reversible stage, I suggest that you not only take medicine, but also pay attention to controlling your blood sugar, exercise more, and eat a healthy diet."

"The total cost of this consultation and medical expenses is 700 yuan. Please scan the code to pay."

When she heard that it was only 700 yuan, Zheng Hong quickly took out her mobile phone to scan the code.

Ding.

[It was detected that the host was outspoken to the patient and told the patient’s hidden illness, which greatly helped the patient and the task was completed]

[Congratulations to the host for winning the reward: Kidney-tonifying and detoxifying soup]

"Doctor Qin, I have already transferred the money."

Qin Jiang made a gesture to indicate that he had received it, then went to the pharmacy to take out the medicine that had been prepared long ago and handed it to Zheng Hong.

"This ointment is mainly used to replenish your blood and enhance your metabolism. When you take it home, just take a little bit every day for breakfast."

"You also need to go to the pharmacy and buy a blood glucose meter. When you have nothing to do, check your blood sugar. Remember, you must control your blood sugar, otherwise it will be very troublesome."

Zheng Hong nodded repeatedly to show that she understood.

She picked up the medicine and turned to leave.

Watching the two people leaving, Liu Yan asked, "Doctor Qin, is diabetes really that scary? I've seen many people online saying that having diabetes will be very painful when you get old."

Qin Jiang glanced at Liu Yan, then said, "The most terrifying thing about diabetes is not the disease itself. It's the various complications that will occur in the body after contracting diabetes."

"These complications are diseases that you don't feel much of when you are young, but become worse than death when you are old."

"For example, diabetic nephropathy will begin to appear five years after the onset of diabetes."

"It starts with proteinuria. Although your body won't feel any obvious discomfort, it will gradually damage your body until 1 to years later, your kidney function will completely fail, and you will need dialysis to maintain your life."

After hearing what Qin Jiang said, Liu Yan didn't seem to feel anything.

Qin Jiang seemed to know what she was thinking, and said with a smile: "Do you think that it is too far away for you to start to lose your body in five years and suffer kidney failure in twenty or thirty years?"

Liu Yan smiled awkwardly.

Although she didn't admit it, she did think so.

How many twenty-five years can a person have in his lifetime?

If a disease takes twenty-five years to develop, it doesn't seem that scary.

Who knew that Qin Jiang continued: "What I just said is just the average data. Some people may have this kind of kidney disease not long after they got diabetes, and their kidney function will be completely exhausted within a few years."

"More importantly, the average survival rate of patients with diabetic nephropathy undergoing dialysis is no more than five years, and the mortality rate is even higher than that of malignant tumors."

"That is to say, the moment you get diabetes, your life has actually begun to count down. Do you still think that this disease is nothing?"

Liu Yan widened her eyes and stopped thinking so.

You should know that in the past, most people with diabetes were middle-aged and elderly. But now, with the increasing pressure of work and life, coupled with the high-calorie and high-sugar food that people usually eat, staying up late, obesity, irregular diet, and various factors, the age of diabetes is getting earlier and younger.

More importantly, diabetes is recognized as a disease of affluence.

The affluence disease here does not mean that you will become rich after you get this disease.

It means that when you have diabetes, there are many things you cannot eat.

He can’t eat this and he can’t eat that, just like a rich person who is picky about food.

That’s why diabetes is called a disease of affluence.

One of the greatest pleasures for young people today is eating and drinking.

If you tell him now that you can't eat some delicious food because of this disease, it would be more painful than killing him.

But Qin Jiang hadn't finished speaking yet. He continued, "The second disease is diabetic retinopathy."

"The symptoms of this disease are just blurred vision at first, which may be relieved by blinking your eyes, but if you don't pay attention to controlling your blood sugar, your blood sugar will continue to rise."

"Then in ten years, your retina will be seriously damaged, leading to blindness."

“The third is diabetic neuropathy, and at first you just feel numbness in your hands and feet, or slow reaction times.”

"But as your blood sugar continues to rise, you start to experience more symptoms and other organs are affected, leading to multiple organ failure."

"That's why diabetes is called a basic disease. Because once you have diabetes, basically all other organs in your body will be affected."

After hearing Qin Jiang talk about so many complications, the netizens in the live broadcast room were all so scared that their scalps went numb.

"Oh my god, diabetes has so many complications? And the impact is so comprehensive?"

"My goodness, the complications of diabetes affect almost all diseases in the body, including nerves, vision, and internal organs."

"I work in a hospital, and let me tell you this, no matter which department you work in, you can almost always see patients with diabetes. And once they have diabetes, their conditions tend to become more serious, and they become frequent visitors to the hospital, getting worse year by year, which is scary."

"Many people think that underlying diseases are not that scary when they hear about them. But in fact, it is precisely because they are underlying diseases that they are scary. Because of this underlying disease, the probability and severity of other diseases you get are different from those of ordinary people. All we can say is that everyone should pay attention to it and take underlying diseases seriously."

Liu Yan, who was standing by, was also stunned.

It was the first time she knew that diabetes has so many complications.

Qin Jiang took a sip of tea and then said, "Yes, there is another most torturous disease that I forgot to mention, and that is diabetic foot."

"This disease is mainly caused by lower limb artery occlusion due to diabetes, leading to silent myocardial infarction."

"When diabetic foot develops to a serious level, amputation is required."

"That is to say, as long as you have diabetes, you are likely to suffer from blindness, amputation, nerve numbness, multiple organ failure, and even silent myocardial infarction."

“That’s the scary thing about diabetes.”

(End of this chapter)