Suffering from a pig's blood clot
The Institute of Tropical Medicine - Bach Mai Hospital is treating 3 patients in a cluster of critical cases due to eating pig blood juice in Quynh Phu, Hung Yen.
All 3 patients were admitted to the hospital in critical condition, including 1 critical case of convulsive and confused breathing that had to be transferred from Thai Binh General Hospital.
According to other statements from patients and relatives, these cases all ate pork soup with friends on the morning of July 6 at 3 nearby restaurants and all took the pigs from a slaughterhouse. There have been 2 deaths at medical facilities with initial symptoms of fever, diarrhea.
The 63-year-old male patient was admitted to the hospital with signs of seizure, coma, and mechanical ventilation through the endotracheal tube transferred from a lower-level hospital.
According to her daughter, on Sunday morning, July 6, the patient and about 6 friends gathered to eat pork soup at a familiar restaurant in Quynh Phu, Hung Yen province). About a week later, he had knee pain, fatigue, low blood pressure, nausea, his family took him to the hospital for a water supply but it did not improve. After that, the patient was transferred to the provincial hospital in a state of drowsiness, loss of consciousness, weak limbs, and convulsions. At the provincial hospital, the patient was diagnosed with meningitis, coma requiring ventilators and taking high doses of antibiotics, then transferred to Bach Mai Hospital.
MSc. Dr. Hoang Quoc Thai Binh - Department of Intensive Care, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Bach Mai Hospital said: The patient was put in a ventilator, in a deep coma, and had seizures when transferred to the Institute. Initial examination showed that the patient had an infection, with bleeding on the skin, suspected to be due to eating pig blood clotting secretion. The patient was taken for bone marrow fluid and had bone marrow fluid culture... and the result was positive for pig blood cell bacteria.
The patient was treated with antibiotics and actively resuscitated. After 36 hours, the patient was conscious and had his air intake removed. The remaining two cases are mild but still have sequelae: poor hearing, blurred vision...
The next male patient, 38 years old, developed the disease after 3 days of eating urine with symptoms of fever and headache. After hearing information about deaths related to urine, the patient was transferred directly to the central station and was determined to have meningitis caused by streptococcusatedatedatedatedatedatedatedatedatedatedated pigs.
The last male patient, 43 years old, had also eaten pork offal with the above people who were diagnosed with infection after eating pork offal. After 3 days of treatment at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, the patient was discharged from the hospital.
Associate Professor, Dr. Do Duy Cuong, Director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Bach Mai Hospital, said: Pig bacteria are dangerous bacteria that are transmitted from pigs to humans mainly through the digestive tract through eating household urine, causing sepsis, meningitis and multiple organ failure with a high mortality rate if not detected and treated promptly. In particular, this bacteria does not have a vaccine to prevent it. The only way to avoid the disease is not to eat urine and foods from raw or undercooked pork.
"The use of urine, raw pork, rare meat, Improve protein, and foods that are not cooked thoroughly is a cause of many dangerous diseases. The risk does not stop at the pig's cell phone but also worms and probiotics that cause food poisoning. Therefore, this eating habit needs to be eliminated - Associate Professor, Dr. Cuong emphasized.
