Bacillary Dysentery

Empress actually died of bacillary dysentery

Posted on | October 15, 2009 | No Comments

According to records, Empress 73 years old that year, in order to give this “Old Buddha,” birthday, the palace within the busy enjoying themselves. Birthday that day, invited dozens of the best chefs capital concern and preparation of the Tao more than 100 dishes, Jin Qianren civil and military officials gathered for the Empress Dowager Cixi birthday. Empress particularly pleased that day, she drank a few glasses of wine first, and then eat a lot of delicious food. The next day, Empress that a sense of abdominal pain, stool frequency increased significantly over dozens of times every day, and with pus and blood. A week later, Empress has become very skinny, although invited the imperial doctor Qiemo treatment, and was allegedly served a double opium, but still no better condition, opium analgesics than pain. Then, after a week, Empress caught in a coma. Guangxu thirty-four years (1908) October 22, the Empress Dowager ordered return their lives.

Presumably, the same day Empress of excessive drinking, so that decreased intestinal immunity, has opened the door to the invasion of bacteria; then cook cooks, huge numbers of staff in the preparation of dishes, it is likely the bacteria into the fish and the like on, and on which a large number of breeding. Besides the disease incubation period from the Empress of view, into the birthday front, abdominal pain and diarrhea in the latter, apparently with this birthday-related; again from her clinical symptoms of view, is fully compliant with the clinical symptoms of bacillary dysentery. Thus, the Empress Dowager was little Shigella-induced death was confirmed in no doubt of.

Once he has been eating contaminated food Shigella whether the incidence depending on the specific circumstances. If a small amount of bacteria enter the stomach acid can be killed, a few “slip through the net elements” into the intestinal tract, the intestine can also be eaten by the normal flora, it will not incidence; but if swallowed more than the quantity of bacteria and intestines Road resistance drops, the opportunity to the large population of bacteria, while the release of a large number of endotoxin in clinical practice there will be chills, fever, malaise, blood pressure decreased embolism. Bacteria invade the large intestine mucosa itself, resulting in intestinal inflammation, necrosis, so patients had stool frequency increased, and will be accompanied by sepsis. Severe cases may have died due to septic shock.

Autumn of, it is bacterial dysentery multiple seasons. The key measure is prevention of dysentery are following “disease from the mouth” off. Before meals, then after going to toilet; raw and cooked food separately, to be eaten raw fruits and vegetables must be cleaned; do not eat half-baked fish or meat, because such items were likely to contain Shigella and other bacteria into the stomach After the intestine, the bacteria will “stir up trouble.” Ying Hui Guo overnight before cooking meat and other food. Once the abdominal pain, diarrhea, in particular, with pus and blood will be on sickness, seek medical attention immediately to avoid delay in diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Tips

How to control dysentery

Acute bacillary dysentery prevalent in the summer season, many patients with bacillary dysentery, or history of exposure to contaminated food history. Poisoning, bacillary dysentery, to 2 ~ 7-year-olds are more prevalent.

① stay in bed for the acute phase, according to condition of patients measuring blood pressure and pulse.

② to liquid or semi-liquid diet is appropriate, not eat more oily residue or an irritating non-digestible food. Recovery can be gradually resumed eating disease.

③ more into the water, to maintain a urine output, if necessary, to give intravenous fluid replacement.

④ severe abdominal pain, it can be placed in the abdomen, hot-water bottle. Oral compound belladonna tablets 1 to 2 tablets / second, or intramuscular atropine 0.5 mg / time.

⑤ antimicrobial drug choice. Light are available furazolidone (furazolidone) 0.1 grams, 4 times a day, oral. 5 ~ 7 day of a course of treatment. In severe cases, doctors should be a clear diagnosis, the choice of cotrimoxazole, chloramphenicol, gentamicin, or ampicillin and so on.

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