Chapter 2084

"28? Did they use emetic drugs among them?" Zhou Litao asked in surprise.

28 big pig trotters—just thinking about it feels greasy and bloating.

"Making money isn't that easy." Su Yun said, "You need to understand the psychology of those watching the videos. Who wants to watch someone eat pig trotters? They all want to see the host end up vomiting and having diarrhea."

"Your mind is too dark." Zheng Ren commented.

"Don't talk nonsense." Su Yun said: "They definitely won't use emetic drugs while eating, but they will after eating."

"Doing that is too harmful to the body."

"Make money, boss! Support the family, big brother!" Su Yun said exaggeratedly.

"Could it be that they were livestreaming eating bananas and ended up poisoned?" Zhou Litao's thinking had already been led astray by Su Yun, all the way to the ends of the earth.

"Probably not—each 100 grams of banana contains about 330 milligrams of potassium; after subtracting what the body can't absorb, how much would you have to eat to cause potassium poisoning?" Zheng Ren said.

"Saying all that is useless; we still have to wait for the patient to return before we can say anything."

Just as they were speaking, the emergency department's phone rang.

Although the phone ring had never changed, to those hearing it now it seemed to carry a sense of anxiety.

The nurse at the nurse's station picked up the phone and hung up after a few words.

"Manager Zhou, the patient's breathing and circulation stopped, resuscitation brought them back, and they've already been intubated." The nurse quickly reported the situation.

Zhou Litao immediately began organizing staff to prepare the ventilator, monitor, and charge the defibrillator.

"Cardiac arrest? Bananas?" Su Yun muttered quietly.

What Zheng Ren just said makes sense; if it were just hyperkalemia, it would indeed cause all the current symptoms.

But!

A normal person would have to eat at least 20 kilograms of bananas, and after a long period of metabolism and absorption, for hyperkalemia complications to appear.

But early hyperkalemia presents as numbness of the limbs and lips, accompanied by arrhythmia; reaching cardiac arrest... the possibility seems slim no matter how you think.

People aren't dead; if they feel something's wrong, they should hurry to the hospital.

"They'll be back soon; let's wait and see." Zheng Ren also didn't understand, so he whispered to Su Yun.

Because there was an emergency rescue, Lin JiaoJiao moved out of the resuscitation room and sat on the hard plastic chair outside to wait.

"Sister Lin, feeling better?" Su Yun, being idle, struck up idle chat with Lin JiaoJiao.

"Mm, a little better—at least I can speak now." Lin JiaoJiao forced a smile, but her fear was still evident.

A perfectly fine person suddenly unable to speak—who could bear that?

This is a recovery; if she hadn't recovered... Lin JiaoJiao dare not even think further.

"Director Kong is doing blood tests over there; if Boss and I aren't mistaken, it should be mercury poisoning." Su Yun said.

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"Sister Lin, are you using the manufacturer's product or one you made yourself?" Su Yun asked with a laugh.

"Yun Ge'er, I know what you mean. I won't earn that kind of money." Lin JiaoJiao said solemnly.

The two were like they were playing a riddle; actually, some things are known to industry insiders.

The National Cosmetics Hygiene Standard stipulates that mercury content in cosmetics must not exceed 1 mg/kg, and for eye cosmetics not exceed 70 mg/kg.

And some small beauty clinics' homemade whitening products exceed the national mercury limit by countless times; reportedly the highest can reach 15,000 times!

Yes, it's 15,000 times!

So the effect is good—with that much mercury, it neutralizes skin surface melanin; how could it not whiten?

But whether it causes poisoning—probably the small clinic staff don't know either. They've never seen what mercury poisoning looks like; they're just muddled.

"Sister Lin, you're using a big foreign brand's product—how could you still get poisoned?" Su Yun laughed and brushed off the previous topic.

"Maybe I've been anxious lately, I'm older, and no matter how I treat my skin it's not as white as before. I've been applying layer after layer, also using whitening product at night, with a much larger amount than usual."

Exactly how much, Lin JiaoJiao didn't say, and Su Yun, being in sync, didn't ask.

If applying it caused mercury poisoning, could the amount be small?

Lin JiaoJiao also agreed with this; after all, she too came from a medical background, and when faced with such things people panic and don't think of this.

However, Zheng Lao Ban and Yun Ge'er both think that, so it's definitely correct.

Lin JiaoJiao sighed.

Su Yun was about to offer a few words of advice when the sound of an 120 emergency ambulance came from afar.

"Sister Lin, a patient who had cardiac arrest after eating bananas—I'll go take a look." Su Yun said calmly.

"Eating bananas?"

"Hmm, I can't figure out why for now; once the person arrives and gets examined, we'll know."

"You're busy, no need to mind me." Lin JiaoJiao said, "I've basically recovered; this is likely an acute flare-up of chronic accumulation."

"Just wait; Director Kong will soon bring back the report to scold you." Su Yun laughed.

The 120 emergency ambulance sped back, lifted the patient onto a stretcher, and rushed all the way to the resuscitation room.

The patient had already been intubated on scene; attaching a ventilator would maintain breathing.

Zheng Ren glanced; the rescue was spot-on, and the patient had already resumed spontaneous breathing on the 120 ambulance.

The ECG showed atrial fibrillation, heart rate about 86 per minute, all leads with tall peaked T waves. Blood pressure rose to 90/60 mmHg, temporarily no danger to life.

Blood test, the ER 120 doctor, looking unhappy, said: "Isn't this courting death?"

Zheng Ren felt there was a problem.

Under normal circumstances, few doctors would be this angry.

Even if angry, they'd suppress it, find a place with no one to curse a few sentences to vent, and that would be enough.

"What's going on?" Zhou Litao asked.

"Kidney failure, I need dialysis three times a week. I just finished dialysis today, I was craving badly, went home and ate a pile of bananas."

「……」

Everyone was speechless.

No wonder, all the things that were previously incomprehensible, after the Emergency Rescue Service doctor said that, it became easy to understand.

Without urine, the speed at which potassium accumulates is called fast. This is really courting death, no wonder the Emergency Department 120 doctor isn't happy.

During this rescue, who knows how much adrenaline he has secreted; it's estimated it won't be fully metabolized within 24 hours.

「I go... 」 Su Yun shook his/her head.

The cause and pathogenic factors of the disease are already clear, nothing to Worry about. Sent to nephrology with ventilator dialysis, estimated after a while it will be fine.

「During my college internship, I encountered many similar patients while rotating in nephrology. 」 Zheng Ren sighed and said: 「Some people crave cola, and before dialysis they glug-glug a big bottle to satisfy their craving. Tell them their kidneys are bad, and they say, 'Isn't this why we need dialysis?'」

「That's also correct. 」 Su Yun saw the Inpatient Chief of nephrology running over at a light jog, estimating that the Emergency Rescue Service doctor had called from the car, and laughed: 「What you eat before dialysis and after dialysis—how could they be the same?! 」