Donkey Trouble Volume IV: The Prodigal Son of the Capital 54, ichthyosis and jaundice
When Zhao Kuangyin was born, the truth of "being golden all over and covered in fish scales" was revealed.
Fortunately, there were many people in the house, some carried away from the fire, and some ran to call the midwife. Everyone was in a hurry with the shouts of firefighting, and when the midwife came, all emergency things had been prepared.
Zhao Hongyin couldn't intervene, so he could only get down on his knees and pray to the gods:
"The Jade Emperor, the Bodhisattva of the South China Sea, the Lady of the Child, the land, the city god, the past gods, the immortals, bless my adults and children to be safe——"
Zhao Hongyin knelt facing south, praying to the gods, which could be regarded as sincerity, and after about half an hour, "Woo wow wow wow-" The cry of a baby came from the inner room. Although the cry was not loud enough, to Zhao Hongyin's ears, it was no less than the suona high, gongs and drums sounded in unison.
With a professional smile on her face, the midwife walked out of the inner room while wiping her hands, came to Zhao Hongyin's side, crossed her hands, and said: "Congratulations to the master, congratulations to the master, the Jade Emperor blesses, the Bodhisattva manifests, the lady is safe, and the young master is also safe......"
"Young master?" Zhao Hongyin's face suddenly lit up, and his eyes stared at the midwife, "Is it true, is it true? You mean, Madame gave birth to a son for me?"
"Master Zhao, can I coax you?" the midwife's mouth was like a piece of candy, and every word she spit out was sweet water, "The young master is so long, so big, a few pounds in weight, the nose is the nose, the eyes are the eyes, the ears are the ears, the mouth is the mouth, you can see that you are a person of great fortune and nobility!"
The midwife's words were equivalent to saying nothing except the fart of "Dafu Dagui", but Zhao Hongyin listened, and a baby son with a fat head and brain, white and fat, and his hands and feet were playing around.
"Thank you, thank you!" Zhao Hongyin bowed deeply to the midwife, got up and ordered the housekeeper: "Reward, reward!" Then he knelt down again, kowtowed to the sky three times, thanked the gods who responded to the request, got up and strode towards the inner room.
When Zhao Hongyin stepped into the inner room, the fire in the courtyard connected to the kitchen was still burning, and the fire light shone through the cracks in the doors and windows, flickering, like red snakes, on the walls, roofs, beams and pillars, furniture, entwining, dancing wildly, and even the faces of the girls were shining brightly, radiating yellow-red light, like a golden snake climbing up and down.
After all, Zhao Hongyin is a general who has seen battles, and he knows that there are hundreds of people fighting them, and the fire will not spread to the pavilion in this backyard. The burning of a house is nothing more than 12,800 taels of silver, and for him, it is just the empty salary of thousands of soldiers in peacetime for a month, and it is just a part of the floating wealth of one of the enemy's mansions collected in the war, which is nothing at all, as long as his wife and son are safe!
"Thank you for your hard work!" he greeted as he walked over to his wife's bed with a joyful face!
Du Shi slowly opened his eyes and looked at his husband, two strings of tears welled up: "I, I'm sorry for you!"
"What's wrong?" Zhao Hongyin asked eagerly.
Du Shi turned his face away, his shoulders trembling, clearly holding back a whimper.
Zhao Hongyin seemed to sense something, and reached out to grab the baby wrapped in the bed. He couldn't wait to open the brocade mattress and was startled.
Probably due to premature birth, the child was thin, small, like a large cat with a skinned skin, and had a shiny orange complexion, with distinct yellowish-brown snakeskin-like scales covering the entire body.
Ichthyosis is a common hereditary keratosis cutaneous disease, formerly known as ichthyosis, and psoriasis in traditional Chinese medicine. Generally, the skin on the sides of the limbs or trunk is dry and rough, accompanied by diamond-shaped or polygonal scales, such as fish scales or snakeskin, and some have gray-brown fish scales or black fish scales. Due to different modes of inheritance, it can be divided into autosomal dominant ichthyosis vulgaris, sex-linked ichthyosis vulgaris, congenital ichthyosis-like erythroderma and lamellar ichthyosis. Zhao Kuangyin is accompanied by jaundice, and the scales are yellow, which is rare.
Ichthyosis is a keratosis skin disease that usually has a genetic family history. Whether Zhao Kuangyin's mother Du Shi and father Zhao Hongyin suffered from this disease is not recorded in the history books, so it cannot be guessed randomly.
Ichthyosis is a stubborn skin disease, which is caused by "insufficient congenital endowment, acquired temper disorder, yin deficiency and fire, and loss of blood and blood distribution from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine". That is, ichthyosis is caused by the imbalance of the liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, resulting in poor permeability of subcutaneous tissues, and the subtleties of the water grains digested by the human body cannot be fully distributed to the epidermis. In order to completely cure ichthyosis, we should start by adjusting the overall function of the human body. Therefore, until the later generations of scientific development, starting from physiology, pathology, and skin histocytology, it is difficult to cure patients fundamentally by using the combination of internal and external therapy of "promoting the lungs, strengthening the spleen and benefiting the kidneys, and invigorating blood circulation and emollientness".
Zhao Kuangyin was born with thickened skin like keratin, with scaly armor covering the entire body, the disease is more serious, and accompanied by jaundice, which is even rarer.
Neonatal jaundice is common in the following ways:
One is hemolytic jaundice: neonatal hemolytic jaundice is characterized by jaundice within 24 hours after birth, and gradually worsens.
The second is infectious jaundice: infectious jaundice is jaundice that occurs due to viral infection or bacterial infection, which mainly damages the function of hepatocytes. Viral infections are mostly intrauterine infections, with cytomegalovirus and hepatitis B virus being the most common, and other infections such as rubella virus and toxoplasma gondii are rare. Bacterial infections are most common with sepsis jaundice. Jaundice is characterized by persistent physiologic jaundice or persistent jaundice after the physiological jaundice has resolved.
The third is obstructive jaundice: obstructive jaundice is mostly caused by congenital biliary malformations, and congenital biliary atresia is more common, and its jaundice is characterized by jaundice appearing one to two weeks or three to four weeks after birth, gradually deepening, and the stool color gradually changes to light yellow, or even white clay color.
The fourth is breast milk jaundice: this is a special type of pathological jaundice. In a small number of breastfed neonates, jaundice is more severe than normal physiologic jaundice, and the reasons for this are not well understood.
Most newborns may have yellowish skin within the first week of life. This is mainly due to the peculiarities of bilirubin metabolism in newborns. If the degree of jaundice is mild, it is physiological jaundice, so there is no need to be overly nervous. However, according to the official history and many wild history records, Zhao Kuangyin's symptoms of "golden all over his body" and "not fading in March" show that his jaundice should be hemolytic jaundice plus infectious jaundice, which is very serious, which is not trivial!
Frightened premature and suffering from such severe ichthyosis and jaundice, can such a child still be able to survive?
Zhao Hongyin looked at a large area of houses that were still burning, and looked at the child in his arms, who was "covered in gold and covered in fish scales", as if he had been cramped, and collapsed on the ground.
If you want to know what will happen next, please watch the next time: The big fool Chen Xuan.