Guan Peipei felt that it was too irresponsible for the doctor to make a diagnosis after just one glance, and she needed to tell her previous experience, "Doctor, before I returned to China, I lived in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname, South America, where Zika fever was epidemic, and I was bitten by mosquitoes, so I suspected that I was infected with Zika virus. ”

"Zika virus?" The doctor's brow furrowed slightly.

What is Zika virus?

He, a small county doctor, hadn't heard of it yet.

The doctor thought about the term Zika virus in his mind, as if he had heard it in news reports before, it was an infectious disease abroad, and it had not yet appeared in China.

Since it is a virus, there will always be some common symptoms after a viral infection, and fever is the most common.

The doctor took out a thermometer from the table and handed it to Guan Peipei, "Take your temperature." ”

"I don't have a fever." Guan Peipei muttered quietly, but still put the thermometer under his arm as the doctor asked.

After 5 minutes, I took out the thermometer, and as expected, there was no fever at 36.8 degrees Celsius.

Looking at the prescription on the thermometer, the doctor's brow furrowed.

"I don't have a fever, it shouldn't be a viral disease, a large number of people in Lianhai City have recently had mulberry caterpillar dermatitis, you may be too, I'll prescribe some medicine for you and go back and wipe it."

After the doctor prescribed the medicine, he gave a few more instructions, but Guan Peipei was still not at ease, thinking that the recent menstrual leave was not allowed, so he asked: "Doctor, I have been preparing for pregnancy recently, and I haven't been on menstrual leave for more than a month, I want to check if I am pregnant." ”

"Okay, I'll make you an order and take a blood test."

Guan Peipei did not go to get the medicine, but took the list of blood draws and went to take the blood test first.

The results came out quickly.

Staring at the data on the test sheet, Guan Peipei was stunned.

I'm really afraid of something.

She is expecting.

The little nurse who gave her the test sheet on the side hurriedly congratulated, "Good news, you can contact the obstetrician and gynecologist, and you can set up a card after three months and come to the hospital for regular examinations." ”

Kwan has always wanted a child, but now she has a good chance of contracting the Zika virus.

If it is indeed infected, the child is very dangerous.

She has been living in Suriname, South America, for the last few years, and she does not allow this to happen to her, knowing that the Zika fever epidemic is very severe and that many pregnant women are infected with Zika virus and give birth to children with microcephaly.

So the first thing Guan Peipei has to do now is to determine if she is infected with the Zika virus.

Guan Peipei took the test sheet and went back to the doctor who had just gotten to him, "Doctor, I'm pregnant, some medicines can't be used casually, and I still suspect that I may be infected with Zika virus." ”

The doctor sighed slightly, thinking, obviously there is no fever, how can it be a viral disease? Some pregnant women are always suspicious during pregnancy, and this is the case today.

The doctor smiled and comforted Guan Peipei, "The rash on your body should be caused by allergies, if it is a viral disease, it may also be dengue fever, a relatively common viral infection in China, but according to my current diagnosis, it is not a viral disease." If you really doubt it, go to the big hospital in the city to check it out, and the small hospital in our county can't do the test for rare viruses. ”

The doctors have said so, and Guan Peipei has no choice but to go to the best hospital in Lianhai City.

After checking on the Internet and reading the comments on major hospitals and doctors on the Internet, she decided to go to the Department of Infectious Diseases of the First People's Hospital of Lianhai City to find a chief physician named Gu Jiashu.

After registering on the Internet, Guan Peipei hurriedly went from Qingcheng County to the city.

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The First People's Hospital of Lianhai City, outpatient building.

In the consultation room, Guan Peipei put the examination report in front of Gu Jiashu at the county hospital and told Gu Jiashu about her previous experience.

"Doctor, I just returned to the country yesterday, I have been living in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname in South America, the day before yesterday at more than 4 o'clock in the morning, I took a flight to the Netherlands for a transit, arrived at Amsterdam Airport in the Netherlands at about 1 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, and waited at the airport for 9 hours, during which I ate a box of sushi containing sashimi, and then began to itch all over the body when I got on the plane, and there was a red rash, after getting off the plane, I took a bus back to Qingcheng County Hospital to see my sick and hospitalized father. When I was in the hospital, I suspected that I might have been infected with Zika virus abroad, so I had a rash on my body, I checked at the county hospital, and I was more than a month pregnant, but the doctor at the county hospital said that he could not find out if I was infected with Zika virus, and said that I should come to the best hospital in the city. Doctor, it's important to me that you can help me get a test to see if I'm infected with Zika. ”

Guan Peipei touched his lower abdomen, looking anxious.

When he heard Guan Peipei mention the Zika virus, Gu Jiashu chuckled in his heart, he had experience in foreign epidemic areas, had a rash on his body, and had no fever, but it was also consistent with the symptoms of Zika virus infection.

After Zika virus infection, many patients do not show specific symptoms, some people have fever, conjunctivitis and other symptoms need to seek medical attention, and some people just have a rash that will resolve on its own after a few days, so Zika fever caused by Zika virus is a self-limiting disease, and most cases do not require special treatment.

But if a pregnant woman is infected with the Zika virus, the situation can be very bad.

And if Guan Peipei is really infected with Zika virus, then she is a mobile source of infection, although ordinary contact will not lead to person-to-person transmission, but if a mosquito bites her, the blood with the virus will enter the environment with the mosquito, and this mosquito will bite other people, which will cause the virus to spread.

Gu Jiashu asked her, "Have you been bitten by mosquitoes recently?" ”

"Yes." Guan Peipei's voice trembled and said, "When I was in South America, there were a lot of mosquitoes in the local area, and some of my colleagues around me were also diagnosed with Zika fever, and some of them had the same symptoms as mine, although they did not have a fever, but they were only rashes on their bodies, but they were also diagnosed with Zika virus infection by the hospital." Although I usually use mosquito nets at night, there are mosquito bites during the day, and I was bitten by mosquitoes two days before I returned to China, and the red envelope on my leg has not completely faded. ”

Guan Peipei picked up his trouser leg and showed Gu Jiashu the red envelope produced by the mosquito bite on her leg that had not yet receded.

The color of the red packet has darkened, and the center is a crusted tissue formed by scratching and breaking.

It is indeed the marks left by a mosquito bite a few days ago.

"Are there any other symptoms besides the itchy rash on your body?"

Guan Peipei thought for a while, "Yes, I have always felt tired in the past two days, all joints in my body are a little sore, and my eyes are still a little sore." ”

Typical symptoms of Zika fever are low-grade fever, headache, rash, diffuse arthralgia, weakness, and occasionally some serious autoimmune diseases.

At present, it seems that apart from the absence of low-grade fever symptoms, Guan Peipei's other symptoms are consistent with Zika fever.