Chapter 1117 (2/2)
”Doctor, why do you die after eating too much salt?” The patient's husband asked. He still didn't understand. Isn't salt something to eat every day? Why do you die if you eat too much?
”Have you ever seen pickled fish and pickled vegetables?” Guo Xiang looked at the patient's husband. ”What will those dishes look like if they are salted a lot?”
”Will it become... Dry?” The patient's husband replied uncertainly.
”Yes, people drink too much salt water, just like pickles, pickling out all the water in their bodies. This is hypernatremia! ”
”The sodium in body fluid increases rapidly, the osmotic pressure balance inside and outside the cell membrane in the body is broken, and the water in the cell is' pickled 'out of the cell, and the cell will become wrinkled and dehydrated. It's like pickled fish. ”
”Can human cells live when they are dry?” Guo Xiang said, ”just like in the sea, no matter how thirsty you are, you can't drink seawater. The more you drink, the faster you dehydrate, the faster you die.”
”The lethal dose of a person's salt is 40 grams. You have 250 grams. If you hadn't rescued it in time, I'm afraid people would have......” Guo Xiang shook his head.
The patient's husband wiped the cold sweat on his forehead. Now he's a little afraid.
Although the wife has mental problems, she is still her own daughter-in-law after all. She has spent so many good times together before.
After hanging a full five liters of glucose, the patient's blood natriuretic value finally fell to the normal level. Fortunately, it fell down, otherwise it would have to be dialyzed.
However, the patient was still not awake. He occasionally opened his eyes and fell asleep again.
Guo Xiang went home first.
The next day, because he was worried, Guo Xiang came to the hospital again.
When I got to the hospital, I went directly to the ward to see the patient. The patient was awake but speechless.
”Can you hear me?” Asked Guo Xiang.
The patient nodded slightly, opened his mouth and said nothing.
Guo Xiang frowned at her and couldn't even speak. Was he weak or his throat broken?
”Raise your left hand and let me see!” Guo Xiang said.
The patient's fingers moved, as if trying to lift them up, but his arms did not move, as if they weighed a thousand kilograms, and he couldn't lift them at all.
”Where's your right hand?” Guo Xiang said again.
The patient still moved his fingers and didn't lift it up.
Is this muscle weakness or something wrong with the nerves?
After some examination, it was found that the patient had motor speech disorder, that is, muscle damage or paralysis of pronunciation, dysphagia and sudden flaccid paralysis of limbs, which was caused by the loss of muscle tension of limb muscles.
That's why patients can't even lift their hands.
”It seems that we need to do MRI to clarify the focus.” Guo Xiang said.
”What is NMR?” The patient's husband asked, now the MRI is not so popular, and ordinary people don't know it is normal.
”It's a magnetic resonance imaging scanner, which can clearly see what's wrong in the body. Your lover, I doubt there's something in my mind, so that's why?” Guo Xiang said.
”You mean tumor?” The patient's husband was shocked.
”Don't rule out this possibility. Let's check it first.” Guo Xiang said.