Reborn Wife Strikes Back in the 80s

  Chapter 862 Vampire Disease

   Is it "vampire disease"?

  Vampire disease, also called porphyria, is a group of diseases caused by the lack of specific enzymes in the heme biosynthesis pathway.

  Heme is an iron-containing pigment, which is involved in the composition of hemoglobin. There are many different enzymes involved in heme biosynthesis, and different enzyme defects can cause different porphyrias, which in turn leads to a series of symptoms.

  Clinically called purpura, it is divided into two categories: hereditary and acquired. The main manifestations are photosensitivity dermatitis, abdominal pain, and neuropsychiatric disorders.

  However, porphyria was first discovered in the West, because the patient was afraid of the sun and was diagnosed with ischemia. Some people mistakenly thought that taking blood could cure the disease, which led to the story of vampires.

  In fact, taking blood has no effect, but blood transfusion has a certain effect.

  The main causes of por gonorrhoea are alcohol, estrogen, pesticides, dialysis or fatty liver disease.

  But there are also genetic factors.

  Guo Xiang talked to the patient’s mother alone. She hesitated for a long time before being honest. She and her husband are cousins, and they are considered close relatives.

  So, Xing Ming and Xu Wei looked at each other. This should be a genetic mutation.

  Women’s disease this time should be due to pregnancy. Excessive estrogen in the pregnancy caused the disease.

   "If you need to be diagnosed, check your urine again." Guo Xiang said.

  Go back to the ward and take urine for the patient.

  "How to test?" Xing Ming asked, he was exposed to this disease for the first time.

"Put this urine in the sun. Normal people's urine will lighten in four hours, while the urine of porphyria patients will turn dark. If you don't believe it, Dr. Xing can take out your urine together. Go and try it out," Guo Xiang said.

  Old Xing Ming blushed, but he still took urine. He really wanted to see if it made any difference.

  I put the urine in a transparent box and put it in the sun. They will look at it again in the afternoon. Sure enough, the original yellow urine, Xing Ming's was already pale as water, but the patient's turned brown-red like soy sauce.

  "Why is this?" Xing Ming asked.

   "Because the porphyrin in the patient's urine undergoes a photoreaction, it turns brownish-red." Guo Xiang said, so that it can be more certain that the patient has porphyria.

  Confirmed the illness, Guo Xiang discussed with the patient's mother-in-law and mother that the pregnancy must be stopped immediately, otherwise the patient's illness will become more and more serious.

  The patient’s mother-in-law was very angry when she heard that, “Divorce, get divorced right away, can’t have children, and you’re still insane. You’re a fraudulent marriage!”

   "We didn't lie to marry our mother-in-law. We didn't know that our daughter had this disease before!" The patient's mother was anxious.

   "Then I don't care. Anyway, we dare not ask for this daughter-in-law. Why do you want to abort the baby? I will ask my son to come and divorce you tomorrow!" The patient's mother-in-law waved her hand and left.

  The patient’s mother was helpless, and she did not expect it to be like this. Her daughter used to be a little squeamish, but she did not expect it to be such a serious illness.

   But now that this is the case, the child can only be knocked out first, and the daughter’s life matters.

  So Xu Wei performed a uterine cleansing operation on the patient, and the patient's condition was quickly under control, and then supplemented with high sugar to reduce the production of porphyrin to prevent recurrence.

  After two days, the patient became sober and looked like a okay person again.

  But she also knew about her disease, and she knew that she was going to divorce her husband, and she was very depressed.

  "Doctor, will my daughter get sick in the future?" The patient's mother was very worried.

  "There is no cure for this disease. In the future, try to avoid sun exposure. Once exposed to the sun, her skin will not be able to bear it, it will feel pain and burning, the skin will be red and blistered or even ulcerated, and mood will be unstable..."

  "You can’t drink alcohol, can’t eat things with estrogen, and pregnancy may not work anymore. Although she will be anemic in this situation, it is best to have regular venous bloodletting..."

"Because there is too much iron in the blood, and then add some hemoglobin, it will be more stable." Guo Xiang said, she was also very helpless, there is no cure for this disease, especially this kind of inheritance, it is a kind of gene defect.

  The patient’s mother made her eyes red when she heard it, “I killed her, I shouldn’t have been with her dad...”

   Blame myself for being too capricious back then, thinking that true love can be desperate.

  It’s not just to say that collateral blood relatives within three generations can’t get married, it’s really scientifically based.

  Some people may say that XX and XX they know are not cousins, so why are the children they give birth to be okay?

  This is a probability problem, but this probability is much higher than that of the average person. There are far more children with defects in close relatives marriage than normal people.

  Some people’s children are mentally retarded when they are born, and even a few of them are born because of the marriage of close relatives.

  There are too many similar genetic genes in close relatives, and the probability of genetic diseases increases, and the risk of some autosomal recessive genetic diseases is much greater.

  So you must be cautious in your marriage. If you want to be willful, don't have children, so as not to harm him (her).

  After a period of time, the patient was discharged from the hospital after the head surgery was healed. As for what happened to her and her husband, it is unclear.

   Soon it’s November, and it’s already very cold in the capital.

  Guo Xiang counted the days with his fingers, and her husband was coming back soon.

Really been waiting.

  At work that day, an old man about sixty years old came, and his wife came with him.

   "Master, where is it uncomfortable?" Guo Xiang asked.

  The old man opened his mouth, his saliva flowed down, his face flushed.

   "Let me talk about it." His wife couldn't see it. "I don't know what's wrong. I started to drool at the corners of my mouth a few days ago.

  "I also said that this person is not old yet, why he doesn’t like to be clean so much. Who knows that after drinking water, I coughed and couldn’t drink the water. When I drank it, it flowed out of the corner of my mouth, and sometimes he vomited..."

"At first, we thought it was just the wind. Afterwards, we couldn’t swallow anything. We couldn’t swallow at all after biting a big piece. We could only vomit, bite again, and then swallow slowly. Eat some food."

"You can see that in just a few days, people have lost such a big circle. Then they said if it was a stroke? It scared him. If the stroke collapses on the bed, wouldn't it be better to die? So come and have a look. "The patient's wife said.

  Guo Xiang nodded while listening, took a stethoscope, "Master, let me show you."

   Put the stethoscope on the old man’s chest, and he felt that his breathing and heart rate were quite normal, and the blood pressure was not too high.

   "Uncle, stick out your tongue for me to have a look." Guo Xiang said.

  "Doctor, aren't you a western medicine doctor here? Why do you still look at the tongue coating?" the aunt asked.

  Guo Xiang smiled, "I am not looking at the tongue coating, I am looking at whether the uncle can control his tongue..."

  Generally speaking, if a person has a stroke, the tongue will lean to one side and will not be centered.

  Because the muscles of the tongue are controlled by the brain, if the brain has a stroke and just damages the nerves that control the tongue, the tongue will be skewed to one side and cannot be centered.

  (End of this chapter)