Chapter 2534: 2443 Feeding Feces (Alliance Leader Randy Is Already Nine Years Old, Extra Chapter 4)

"Let me take a look." Su Yun said urgently and firmly.

Zhou Litao quickly opened his phone; although he didn't understand why the child was ill, and what use Yun Ge'er had in looking at the child's mother's social circle, it didn't matter.

"WeChat or Weibo?"

"Weibo." Su Yun said.

There is still a difference between the two; only those who use them often can tell the nuances.

The most recent Weibo post was from two days ago; the photo showed the child's mother in casual home wear, holding a child under two years old.

Full of love, full of warmth—these could be seen in her eyes.

The accompanying text was positive, full of positive energy—

"We have depended on each other for five months, seventeen days, twenty-one hours."

"Without my beloved, Xiao Luo's father is by my side. This life is not easy, nor is there any happiness to speak of. Over this period, it has been the most difficult journey of my life. Autumn has come; I think next year will be better, but we will still move forward bravely."

Scrolling up further, it was the photo taken when the child was last sick in the hospital.

The mother's anxious, worried expression had already overflowed, though she politely mentioned the 912 Hospital and praised the doctors and nurses there for their superb skills and especially good attitudes.

Scrolling up further… still the child's hospitalization and various chicken soups at home.

"Here, Boss." Su Yun shook the phone in her hand.

"Don't move, I'm thinking. Your shaking has started abnormal electrical reflexes in my vestibular nerve." Zheng Ren said.

"Promising!"

"Yun Ge'er, is something wrong? I think the child's mother is quite reasonable. Moreover, she cares about the child; at least she has never neglected to seek treatment when the child is ill." Zhou Litao said.

"Manager Zhou, you can't forget your position just because she praises the hospital, praises the doctors and nurses." Su Yun looked at Zhou Litao, the corner of her mouth curling into a sneering smile, "People like you are not our goal; our purpose is to cure disease and save lives."

"But..."

"Let's wait for the gastroscopy report; does the child need to wait long for a gastroscopy?" Zheng Ren asked.

"I called the endoscopy room; if we do it as an emergency, it should be soon." Zhou Litao said.

"Then let's wait." Zheng Ren shifted his gaze; Su Yun scrolled up two more times, then returned the phone to Zhou Litao.

"Zheng Lao Ban, Yun Ge'er, what exactly is going on?" Zhou Litao asked doubtfully.

"I and the boss suspect the child has nothing wrong, but the child's mother has factitious disorder imposed on another." Su Yun said.

"……" Zhou Litao was stunned.

He knew of factitious disorder imposed on another, but had only ever understood it from a gossip perspective.

At the very least, encountering such a thing nearby is not easy.

"How did you judge it?"

"The child often gets sick… let me put it this way: although our 912 pediatrics is not as specialized as the Women and Children's Hospital, our level is absolutely not bad—you must admit that." Su Yun asked.

Zhou Litao nodded.

"We've checked many times, found nothing, yet the child keeps relapsing. What do you think about this?" Su Yun asked.

"I think it's an issue with the child's own immune function."

"No." Su Yun said: "Just like today's vomiting, the vomitus contained feces, but the child had no intestinal obstruction, nor was bile residue found in the vomitus. Unless it's some extremely rare congenital disease, but the abdominal flat film shows the anatomical structure is completely intact, with no problems visible."

"But..."

"Let me give you an example." Su Yun said: "In 2014, a five-year-old boy in the United States was hospitalized for acute renal failure."

"Before that, this boy had been hospitalized 23 times, undergone seven surgeries. He had suffered ear infections, strokes, premature ventricular contractions, digestive system diseases, bacterial enteritis, back spasms, and other complex illnesses."

"……" Zhou Litao was speechless; could a five-year-old boy really have so many diseases?

"Later the child was admitted to Nyack Hospital in New York; after two days of treatment, his condition worsened further. Because the situation was urgent, he was airlifted to Maria Fareri Children's Hospital's intensive care unit for emergency rescue."

"But the child's condition was too severe; three days later Maria Fareri Children's Hospital announced he had already been clinically dead."

Zhou Litao listened silently; he now understood what Zheng Lao Ban and Yun Ge'er were thinking.

"The forensic examination, after blood tests, found a lethal dose of salt components in the child's body. At the same time, in the fluid food feeding bags found at home, police also detected salt concentrations far above normal."

"Finally, the forensic conclusion was that the mother used the feeding bag, inserting the catheter directly into the child's esophagus, causing him to ingest a lethal dose of salt."

"Is it that she didn't want to take care of the child, found it troublesome, or for some other reason?" Zhou Litao murmured.

"Tiger poison does not eat its own offspring; killing one's own child… no matter how you think about it, this is unimaginable." Zhou Litao fell into a confused daze.

"No." Zheng Ren shook his head and said: "Later, the police and forensic evidence determined that this mother had an abnormal desire to attract others' attention. From long ago, after she posted a photo of herself encouraging the child after he fell on Facebook and received much attention, the child began to fall ill repeatedly."

"It sounds just like the current situation." Su Yun said, "So there is no further explanation for the child vomiting feces."

"Then…" Zhou Litao felt a chill, and asked softly.

"Consider that the child's mother fed the child feces, causing the child to show symptoms of acute gastroenteritis." Zheng Ren said, "Because of the excessive feeding, the most recent fecal feeding was vomited out, which is exactly the symptom we just saw."

Zhou Litao felt his hands go stiff.

"Ingesting a large amount of fresh feces containing live bacteria, where Escherichia coli and its metabolic products will cause diarrhea in the consumer. This is the same principle as feces fully fermented by E. coli or other miscellaneous bacteria." Su Yun said, "All explanations are reasonable; the boss still needs to wait for the gastroscopy, Manager Zhou, you say whether he is ill."

"Mm-hmm." Zhou Litao first nodded instinctively, then heard the latter part of Su Yun's words.

He quickly shook his head, "Doing more tests is appropriate; better safe than sorry. Moreover, such a determination… cannot be made without sufficient evidence."

"Coward, people like her should be confronted head-on." Su Yun said.

"Well, when there's nothing wrong, I'll go and speak to the patient's family." Zheng Ren said.

"Have you figured out what to say?"

"Go on, let's properly store the sterile gloves and cotton swabs we just used, then say we have enough evidence." Zheng Ren said, "I'll call Lin Ge."