Reborn Wife Strikes Back in the 80s

Is it vampire disease?

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

Heme is an iron-containing pigment that is involved in the composition of hemoglobin. Different enzymes are involved in heme biosynthesis, and different enzyme deficiencies can cause different porphyrias, which in turn lead to a range of symptoms.

Clinically also known as porphyritosis, it is divided into two categories: hereditary and acquired, mainly manifested as photosensitive dermatitis, abdominal pain and neuropsychiatric disorders.

However, the earliest discovery of porphyria was 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 is not effective, but blood transfusion has a certain effect.

The main causes of porphyrin 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 confessing that she and her husband were cousins ​​and they were consanguineous.

It turned out that Xing Ming and Xu Wei looked at each other, this should be a genetic mutation.

The woman's disease this time should be because of pregnancy, and the excessive secretion of estrogen in the pregnancy caused the disease.

If you want to confirm the diagnosis and then test the urine, you will know. Guo Xiang said.

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

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

Put this urine in the sun, normal people's urine will become lighter in four hours, while porphyria patients' urine will become darker. If you don't believe me, Dr. Xing can take your urine out together. Go and try it out. Guo Xiang said.

Xing Ming's face flushed, but he still took urine. He really wanted to see if there would be any difference.

They put the urine in a transparent box and put it in the sun. They would look at it in the afternoon. Sure enough, Xing Ming's urine had become pale like water, but the patient's urine had turned brown and red like soy sauce.

Why? Xing Ming asked.

Because the porphyrin in the patient's urine reacts with light, it turns reddish brown.

Guo Xiang said, this will make it more certain that the patient has porphyria.

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

When the patient's mother-in-law heard this, she was very angry, Divorce, get divorced immediately, can't have children, you are still crazy, you are cheating marriage!

My mother, we are not cheating on marriage. We didn't know that our daughter had this disease before! The patient's mother was anxious.

Then I don't care. Anyway, we don't dare to ask for this daughter-in-law. What you want to do with abortion is up to you. I'll ask my son to come over and divorce you tomorrow! The patient's mother-in-law said and left.

The patient's mother was very helpless. She didn't expect this to happen. Her daughter was a little squeamish in the past, and she didn't expect such a serious illness.

But now this is the only way to get rid of the child first, the daughter's life is at stake.

So Xu Wei performed uterine cleaning surgery on the patient, and the patient's condition was quickly controlled, and then supplemented with high sugar to reduce the production of porphyrin to prevent recurrence.

After two days, the patient was awake, like a normal person again.

However, she also knew about her illness and 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. Try to avoid sun exposure in the future. When exposed to the sun, her skin will be unbearable, and she will feel pain and burning, the skin will be red and blistered or even ulcerated, and her mood will be unstable...

I can't drink alcohol, I can't eat anything with estrogen, and I'm afraid it's not possible to get pregnant. Although she will be anemic, it is best to have regular venous bloodletting...

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

The patient's mother's eyes turned red when she heard this, I hurt her, I shouldn't have been with her father...

I blame myself for being too self-willed back then, thinking that true love can be reckless.

The fact that collateral blood relatives within three generations cannot get married is not just a statement, but there is a real scientific basis.

Some people may say that so-and-so and so-and-so they know are not cousins, how can the children they give birth be okay?

This is a matter of probability, but this probability is much greater than that of the average person, and consanguineous marriages have far more defective children than normal people.

Some people's children are mentally retarded from birth, and even a few are born because of consanguineous marriages.

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

So marriage must be careful, if you really want to be willful, don't have children, so as not to harm him or her.

After a period of time, the patient was discharged from the hospital after the head surgery was healed. It is unknown what happened to her and her husband afterward.

Soon it will be November, and the sky in Beijing is already very cold.

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 of about sixty years old came, and his wife accompanied him.

Master, where are you feeling? Guo Xiang asked.

The old man opened his mouth, saliva gushing down, and the old face turned red.

Let me tell you. His wife couldn't see it. I don't know why. A few days ago, the corners of my mouth started to drool, and I couldn't close my mouth. When I fell asleep, it would flow and make the pillows wet.

I also said that this person is not old, why is he so unclean, who knows that he will choke after drinking water, and he will not be able to drink the water. As soon as he drinks it, it will flow out from the corner of his mouth, and sometimes he will spit it out...

At first we thought it was just the wind, but who knew that later we couldn't swallow anything, and we couldn't swallow a bit of a big chunk, so we could only spit it out, take another small bite, and then swallow it slowly. Eat some food.

Look at how much weight people have lost in just a few days. Later, they said, could it be a stroke? He was frightened. If he was paralyzed on the bed with a stroke, wouldn't life be better than death? Come and have a look. ” said the patient’s wife.

Guo Xiang nodded while listening, took the stethoscope, Master, I'll show you.

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

Master, stick your tongue out for me to see. Guo Xiang said.

Doctor, aren't you a Western doctor here? Why do you still see tongue coating? asked the aunt.

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

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

Because the muscles of the tongue are controlled by the brain, if the brain has a stroke and the nerves that control the tongue have been damaged just now, the tongue will deviate to one side and cannot be centered.