On Sunday morning, Xiao Chen and Xiao Zhang were looking at a model house in a new real estate project, when Xiao Chen suddenly received a strange phone call.

"Hey, is it Mr. Chen Yaozu? Your mother is on her way to the ambulance at the People's Hospital. ”

Xiao Chen chuckled in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "Who are you?" What happened to my mother? ”

"I am a staff member of the Grand Theater, just now your mother suddenly fainted while mopping the floor in the hall, we called 120 ambulance, and now she is on her way to the First People's Hospital."

"I'll go to the hospital right away."

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Lianhai First People's Hospital, emergency room.

Chen's mother has woken up.

Xiao Chen and Xiao Zhang rushed to hear from the emergency doctor about Chen's mother's condition.

The emergency doctor took the chest X-ray that had just been taken, pointed to the black shadows on it and said, "This is a typical imaging manifestation of pulmonary tuberculosis, and then a sputum smear and PPD examination can confirm the diagnosis, and your mother's condition needs to be hospitalized." ”

Although Xiao Chen is not a doctor in the imaging department, he also works in the laboratory department of the hospital, and he can watch films, and he is very surprised when he faces the chest X-ray that his mother has just taken, "How could my mother get tuberculosis?" She's always been in good health. ”

"Tuberculosis is generally contagious, and the elderly and children with low immunity are particularly susceptible to infection. Did your mother come into contact with a tuberculosis patient in her daily activities? ”

Xiao Chen sifted through his mother's recent life trajectory in his mind.

Chen's mother used to be a worker in a paper factory, retired as a worker half a year ago, and after retirement, she was introduced by a friend to work as a cleaner at the Grand Theatre.

In addition to going to work, Chen's mother usually goes to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, and rarely even dances in the square, and the people she has come into contact with in the past six months are people from the Grand Theater.

The staff of the Grand Theater is relatively fixed, but there are more people who go to the Grand Theater to watch operas, and if a certain audience member is infected with tuberculosis, it is not certain.

Xiao Chen asked Chen's mother, "Mom, do any of your staff at the Grand Theater have tuberculosis?" ”

Chen's mother shook her head, "Although I am a temporary worker in the Grand Theater, the management of the Grand Theater is very strict, and I have had a physical examination when I first joined the company, and there are no problems. Moreover, all the employees of the Grand Theater, including temporary workers, also have physical examinations every year, and I have never heard of anyone getting tuberculosis. ”

The incubation period of tuberculosis is relatively long, and the initial symptoms are relatively hidden, Xiao Chen's mother will faint, probably has been infected for a period of time.

Since Xiao Chen's mother had a full body examination half a year ago, and her body was fine at that time, then this infection with tuberculosis was within half a year.

Xiao Chen asked the emergency doctor, "Doctor, is my mother's condition serious?" ”

"Tuberculosis is a chronic disease, judging from the chest x-ray, the lungs have lesions, indicating that the infection has been at least two weeks or more, and there are manifestations of pleural effusion, I recommend hospitalization first, and then take anti-tuberculosis drugs for a year after controlling the infection, which can be cured."

"Okay, I'm going to go through the hospitalization procedures, I should be admitted to the infection department, right?"

"Yes, the treatment level of the infectious disease department of our hospital is the most powerful in the city, and the director of the infectious disease department, Dr. Gu, is a well-known infectious disease expert in the country, let him be your attending doctor, and he will definitely be discharged from the hospital soon." While comforting Chen's mother, the emergency doctor continued, "In view of your current situation, I suggest that your family also get screened for tuberculosis. ”

Xiao Zhang asked worriedly: "We all have no symptoms of coughing, do we need to get checked too?" ”

"In the early stage of tuberculosis, you can have no symptoms, but I still recommend that you register and do a blood routine or PPD test."

Xiao Chen: "Okay, in fact, I also work in the laboratory department of the hospital, so I'll just go back to my own hospital for examination." ”

"Oh? Which hospital are you in? ”

"Marina District Hospital."

"Oh, brother unit, in fact, our doctors are also a high-incidence group of tuberculosis, and they come into contact with different patients every day, and the laboratory department is in contact with the specimens of patients in the whole hospital, which is very dangerous."

Xiao Chen's face was suddenly embarrassed for a moment, and then returned to normal, "Well, the doctor is a high-risk group, I will go through the hospitalization procedures now, Jingjing, you are here to accompany my mother first." ”

After completing the hospitalization procedures, Chen's mother was admitted to the infectious disease ward, and the attending doctor was Gu Jiashu, the director of the infectious disease department.

After seeing the chest X-ray taken by Chen's mother in the emergency department, Gu Jiashu prescribed several more examinations for the patient.

Soon, the results of the examination came out one after another, and it was confirmed that it was a tuberculosis bacillus infection.

Xiao Chen looked at the test results, his face pale.

Girlfriend Xiao Zhang's face was not good-looking, and she asked Xiao Chen nervously, "Auntie is really tuberculosis, you live under the same roof every day, do you want to get checked here now?" ”

"No, I can go back and do it." Xiao Chen refused.

Gu Jiashu thought that Xiao Chen was worried about the cost, and persuaded him: "For the examination and treatment of tuberculosis, the state has a free policy, and our hospital is a designated hospital for tuberculosis monitoring, with corresponding examination items and free treatment drugs. ”

Xiao Chen is still reluctant to do the examination, "The free testing items and treatment drugs are limited, and many drugs that can be treated symptomatically still have to be charged, so just treat my mother first." ”

Xiao Chen's girlfriend Zhang Jingjing, "Since I'm here, I'll do a free checkup." Doctor, what needs to be done? ”

"I'll give you an order, take this list to the room on the left side of the fever clinic, and the doctor there will tell you the next process."

Girlfriend Xiao Zhang pointed to Xiao Chen beside him again, and said to Gu Jiashu, "Doctor, give him a list too." ”

"I don't have to check." Xiao Chen immediately refused.

Girlfriend Xiao Zhang's face drooped, "As a doctor, you still avoid medical treatment?" No matter what, you must check it today, this is one of our marriage tests. ”

"What does this tuberculosis test have to do with our marriage test?"

"Because tuberculosis is as contagious as hepatitis B and AIDS, although it can be cured, if it is not treated in time, it will kill people, haven't you heard that many people have died of tuberculosis in the past?"

"In the past, tuberculosis killed people because there were no antibiotics, but now we have many other anti-tuberculosis treatments in addition to antibiotics."

Gu Jiashu saw that a couple was going to quarrel about free tuberculosis testing, and persuaded him: "This free tuberculosis testing program has strict confidentiality measures, except for reporting to the disease control system, your information will not be disclosed to anyone, and these tests are voluntary, but in view of the presence of tuberculosis patients in your family, as long as you have contact with the patient, it is best to do tuberculosis screening." ”

Xiao Chen pulled his girlfriend Xiao Zhang out of the doctor's office, and the two of them muttered quietly.

"Do you mind if my mother has tuberculosis?"

"Is that a question that you don't mind? Since you are sick, you should treat it quickly, this disease is contagious, you can't hide it, as long as you have contact with your aunt, you should notify them to do a checkup. You're the closest contact, and I'm with you all day, so let's get a check-up first. I think you mean, you want to hide your aunt's illness? ”