Chapter 44: A Ball of Cotton Thread

In his sleep, he felt that his wife was calling him and seemed to be shaking him with his hand.

Half-asleep and half-awake, my nose itched, and I sneezed violently, and I was completely awake in an instant.

At this time, it was more than 10 o'clock at night, and when my wife came back from shopping, she saw the old man napping on the sofa, snoring loudly, so she wanted to wake him up, but before anyone woke up, there was a big sneeze, and a ball of things sprayed out of the old man's nose.

This mass did not fall out completely, but hung on Uncle Zhang's nostrils like snot.

Both husband and wife were stunned for a moment, Uncle Zhang didn't realize what was happening, Aunt Zhang had already taken out a tissue from the coffee table and wiped Uncle Zhang's nose.

This lump of snot is sticky, like a ball of wet cotton thread, after wiping this ball of cotton thread, Uncle Zhang rubbed his nose, and as a result, another nosebleed came out.

"Nosebleeds? I have a nosebleed? Oh, is it too much to eat at night?" Uncle Zhang muttered to himself, and before he finished speaking, he suddenly realized that he was going to eat game at night to hide from his wife, and now he was going to reveal his stuffing.

Aunt Zhang, who has always been shrewd, didn't notice that there was a problem with her wife's words, and instead focused on the snot just now.

The cotton threads in the snot are wriggling.

Alive?!

Aunt Zhang poked the tissue with her hand and found that the cotton thread was squirming even more.

Sure enough, it's alive!

Uncle Zhang's snot actually had something alive in it.

Aunt Zhang suddenly felt her scalp tingle, took two steps back, and pointed to the lump of snot that was thrown on the coffee table, "Old man, you sneezed a bug just now!"

Uncle Zhang's nose was still bleeding, he blocked his nostrils with a tissue, and his eyes looked at the snot that had just been sprayed.

Sure enough, as my wife said, there was a ball of white thread in my nose, which was wrapped in a tissue and squirmed slightly.

It is indeed alive.

The bug had never been seen before, and it was sprayed from his nose.

When was it sucked in? Or did it remain parasitic in his nostrils?

The more I think about it, the more numb my scalp becomes.

Uncle Zhang's scalp was numb, and this itchy feeling seemed to gradually penetrate into his brain because of his imagination, and the whole head began to hurt, and the pain gradually intensified, and his head seemed to be about to crack.

"Old man, what's wrong with you?" Aunt Zhang was very worried when she saw Uncle Zhang rolling on the sofa with his head covered.

"Pain! Headache, headache terrible......"

Before he finished speaking, Uncle Zhang rolled off the sofa and rolled to the floor, his eyes rolled up, his mouth foamed, and his body kept twitching.

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The First People's Hospital of Yunhai City, emergency room.

Uncle Zhang was sent here by the 120 ambulance, and Aunt Zhang accompanied him, still holding the cotton thread-like worm that sprayed out of his nostrils.

The attending doctor carefully examined Uncle Zhang, who had regained his senses on the way.

"Have you had any previous seizures?" asked the attending doctor.

"No, my old man has never had a seizure. Aunt Zhang hurriedly answered.

"I've always been in good health, but this time I suddenly had a headache and then I lost consciousness. Uncle Zhang explained.

There was a lot of blood on his face, which was left by the nosebleed after sneezing just now, and it was not wiped off.

The headache, followed by the seizure, most likely the brain, the doctor prescribed a CT order and told me to pay the money first and then do the examination.

Aunt Zhang seemed to remember something, and hurriedly handed the cotton-threaded worms she brought to the emergency doctor.

"Doctor, this is what my old man squirted when he sneezed, can you show me what it is?"

The doctor took a look at it and sighed, this kind of bug has been seen a lot recently.

There was a patient who had sore eyes, bulging eyeballs, and tears, and came to the emergency department for treatment, and he took out a worm from the pus of the patient's eye, which was in the shape of this cotton thread, and was identified by the laboratory department as Schizocephalic mansoni.

There was also a case of a patient who had multiple nodules on his skin that could move, and when he was treated, he suspected that it was a parasite, and immediately performed a live parasite removal, and the worm was also taken out of the subcutaneous nodule, which was also a larvae of Diegong mansoni - Schizocephalic mansoni after laboratory examination.

It is really rare for the patient in front of him, Uncle Zhang, to spray worms from his nostrils, and this is the first time that the attending doctor has seen a case of directly spraying live worms in decades.

In addition to the overflow of worms from the nose, Uncle Zhang also has headache and epilepsy symptoms, and it is likely that the parasites have infected his brain, and the situation is not optimistic.

The examinations came out quickly, and two obvious lesions could be seen in the CT film of Uncle Zhang's brain.

If an ordinary patient has this symptom, the doctor first speculated that it might be a tumor, cyst or other cause, but with Uncle Zhang's epidemiological history, the doctor speculated that these two lesions were likely to be the nests of Schizocephalic mansoni parasites.

Doctor: "At present, I suspect that you have a parasitic infection, have you eaten frogs, snakes, birds and other wild animals in the past six months or a year, or have you drunk raw water from the wild?"

Uncle Zhang's eyes dodged, he had eaten all these wild animals.

Uncle Zhang didn't dare to answer, Aunt Zhang said angrily, "He has eaten, he is usually greedy, he often eats snake soup and fried field chicken, and he has also eaten pheasants in the mountains many times." ”

Uncle Zhang whispered weakly, "I haven't eaten it many times, and it's all cooked and eaten, if there are parasites, they should be killed." ”

Aunt Zhang immediately scolded, "Can you ensure that everything is cooked in the restaurant outside? Besides, don't you still eat and drink medicinal wine often? Is that medicinal wine cooked?"

"Wine kills bacteria. Uncle Zhang did not give up and justified his actions.

"Bah, kill a fart fungus! Can kill a fungus, you're going to be lying in the hospital right now?"

Uncle Zhang didn't dare to speak again.

Doctor: "I'm going to be hospitalized, I need a craniotomy." ”

Uncle Zhang was lying on the hospital bed, and when he heard that the doctor said that he was going to open his skull, he was very nervous, "Comrade doctor, my illness is so serious, I need to open my head?"

"Yes, we suspect that you have parasites in your brain, there are two obvious lesions from the CT film, one of which is close to the central control area of life, this kind of craniotomy is risky, but if you don't operate as soon as possible, the epilepsy may have another seizure, and then it will be life-threatening, you think about it, you need to sign the consent form for the patient and his family. ”

The surgery is in progress.

Uncle Zhang's skull was opened, and the lesion was exposed to the field of vision.

The doctor carefully cut open the lesion, and sure enough, as expected, a white worm was removed from the lesion.

Two lesions, two white bugs.

The surgery was a success, and the next step was rehabilitation.

The attending doctor looked through the information of Uncle Zhang and several similar patients recently, and fell into deep thought.

The most strange thing is that these patients have a similar onset time and live in Lianyun District.

In the past, Schizocephalic Mansoni infection mostly occurred in rural areas or places with poor sanitation conditions, and there has been no concentrated infection among citizens in Yunhai City for many years.

Although I am worried that similar cases will happen again, the doctor's duty is only to treat the patient, and prevention is the responsibility of disease control.

The doctor opens the epidemic network and allows the medical record information to be reported.