Zhang Cui itched so badly that blood was oozing from the hole on her neck.

"Cui'er, don't scratch, it's all scratched. Li Jianguo grabbed his wife's hand, "I'll get you an ointment to wipe it." ”

Li Jianguo had symptoms of itching all over his body half a month ago, and the pores around his mouth, neck, arms, and thighs were particularly itchy.

At that time, I bought a few ointments from Yamashita Pharmacy, and after applying them, the symptoms were relieved a little, but they were sometimes good and sometimes bad.

Li Jianguo found the ointment and applied it to his wife, muttering in his heart, why do both of them have skin diseases?

It can't be contagious, right?

Li Jianguo: "Cui'er, when the day is completely good, I'll take out the quilt to dry." ”

"You mean there's something wrong with the quilt? No, the quilt covers have been washed, and the quilt core is all new cotton. "The quilts at home are all arranged by Zhang Cui and are very clean.

"Well, no matter, eat breakfast first. ”

Both of them have a bad appetite recently, and the breakfast is very simple, boiled eggs, multigrain porridge, salted dried radish, and steamed buns.

Zhang Cui couldn't eat half a bowl of porridge.

"I don't eat it, I have a little headache, nausea, I'll go lie down for a while. ”

"I still have cold medicine at home, do you want to drink some? Li Jianguo still thinks that his wife has a cold.

"Okay, make a pack. ”

Lying back on the bed, Zhang Cui felt that the quilt was heavier than before, wrapped around her body, and she couldn't breathe.

Because I drank hot porridge and took medicine, I sweated and dizzy, and my headache seemed to be reduced.

She dozed off in a daze.

In her sleep, she seemed to feel a sore nose and raised her hand to rub it, but the drowsiness prevented her from waking up.

Li Jianguo cleaned up the kitchen and went back to the bedroom to see his wife's situation.

"Ah......h

The situation on the bed startled Li Jianguo.

My wife, Zhang Cui, was lying on her side on the bed, her face covered with blood, and her pillow, pillow towel, and quilt were also stained with blood.

"Oh my God...... Cui'er, what's wrong with you?"

Li Jianguo was frightened out of his soul and hurriedly shook Zhang Cui.

Such a horrible look, don't be dead, right?

He stretched out his hand to test his wife's breath.

There is still gas, not dead.

Zhang Cui woke up slowly, and was about to open his mouth to speak, but coughed violently.

Li Jianguo helped the person up and patted him on the back.

"Ahem, cough, cough......" A mouthful of blood spurted out of Zhang Cui's mouth.

Blood sprayed on the quilt, and the color was dull.

"Cui'er, what's wrong with you?" Li Jianguo was already in a panic, not knowing what to do.

"I can't breathe...... Stuffy...... Go to the hospital!" Zhang Cui said these words intermittently, she was so uncomfortable, even if she tried her best to breathe, she still felt suffocated, as if there was a pair of invisible hands holding her neck.

"Okay, let's go to the hospital. ”

I called 120, but the ambulance couldn't go up the mountain, so Li Jianguo found two neighbors and walked to the foot of the mountain with his wife and son stepping on the heavy snow.

I walked for more than half an hour on a mountain road, and when I reached the bottom of the mountain, the ambulance was already waiting there.

——

More than an hour later.

Fenghuang County People's Hospital, Emergency Department.

Zhang Cui is being examined.

Li Jianguo accompanied him, his face anxious.

The emergency doctor is a young man in his thirties, who follows the procedure for asking and auscultating.

"Doesn't sound like a big problem, wait a minute and take a lung film. "The doctor started writing orders on the computer.

Li Jianguo was anxious when he heard this, "Doctor, how can it be okay? My wife coughed up blood just now." ”

"That's not coughing up blood. The emergency doctor corrected, "Presumably the cough caused by the backflow of nosebleeds." ”

But not only did she have a nosebleed, but she also had a terrible tightness in her chest. Li Jianguo was dissatisfied with the doctor's inability to see the reason.

"That's why I asked you to make a film first, so that you can find the reason. ”

Li Jianguo was about to pay for the film, but before leaving the consultation room, he turned back and stretched out his arm in front of the doctor.

"Doctor, I have a lot of these red spots on my arms and body, and my wife also has them, could this be a contagion?"

The emergency doctor examined Li Jianguo and found that, as he said, there were many small blisters on his neck and arms, some of which had broken and scabbed, the skin of his palms was seriously keratinized, and there were many protruding hard nodules the size of mung bean grains on the back of his hands.

After examining Zhang Cui again, she also had small blisters on her body, obvious symptoms of folliculitis on her neck and arms, and many hard particles the size of mung bean grains on her hands.

When I checked my nails again, I found that the couple's nails had off-white horizontal stripes.

Normal people's nails will have a pink shiny color, and occasionally abnormal streaks will appear, but off-white horizontal lines like this one are very rare.

The presence of such striations indicates the possibility of certain diseases.

The emergency doctor wrinkled slightly every day and asked, "Where do you work, is it a pharmaceutical factory or a mine?"

Li Jianguo and his wife felt inexplicable, was their work related to this illness?

"My family grows a tea plantation on Phoenix Mountain. Li Jianguo explained, "I have never been to a pharmaceutical factory or a mine. ”

"Have you ever taken any special Chinese medicine?" asked the emergency doctor.

"Nope. Zhang Cui suddenly remembered something, "Oh, by the way, I drank Banlan Root Powder before, and I bought it at the pharmacy in the town, does this count?"

The emergency doctor shook his head, this banlangen powder must not have anything to do with the immediate symptoms.

The young doctor couldn't make sure of his own reasoning, so he picked up his mobile phone and called, "Director, I am seeing two special cases here, and I need you to come for a consultation." ”

Soon, a gray-haired male doctor walked into the consultation room.

Check again.

The couple was frightened, the young doctor could not diagnose the diagnosis, and asked an elderly chief doctor to come, which seemed to be an incurable disease.

Straighten your hands forward. The chief doctor ordered.

The couple did so.

The originally steady hands trembled slightly at this time.

After the examination, the two doctors looked at each other and said in unison, "Arsenic poisoning?!"

"Arsenic poisoning? What is arsenic poisoning?" Li Jianguo was confused.

"Arsenic poisoning is poisoning caused by the element arsenic, the most common being arsenic trioxide, also known as arsenic. The young doctor explained.

"Arsenic?!, you mean that my two children were poisoned?" Zhang Cui asked in surprise, this is impossible, he and his wife are usually kind and have not offended anyone.

"Not really. The chief doctor explained, "Arsenic exists in many external environments, such as some specific mines, some pharmaceutical companies, and groundwater in some areas also contains high doses of arsenic. ”

The more the couple listened, the more confused they became, no matter what the external environment was, they had been living on Phoenix Mountain, why would they be poisoned?

"Doctor, are you sure the two of us are the ones with arsenic poisoning?"

"The symptoms are very similar, the hard nodules on your hands are arsenic boils, and the beige horizontal stripes on your fingernails are typical symptoms of arsenic poisoning, but to confirm the diagnosis, you need to do arsenic measurements. I'll give you a list to check the amount of arsenic in your urine. ”

"Do you still have lung films?"

In addition, blood and liver function should be checked, arsenic poisoning can cause systemic symptoms, and it is necessary to check more comprehensively. ”

The results came out quickly.

Li Jianguo's urine contained 15.71 micromoles per liter.

The arsenic content in Zhang Cui's urine was 12.71 micromoles per liter.

All exceed the sanitary standard of 1.74 micromoles per liter.

The husband and wife were diagnosed with arsenic poisoning.