Chapter 2718: 2620.2520 Folk Remedy for a Major Illness

2620.2520 Folk Remedy for a Major Illness

"Yun Ge'er, Glasgow Coma Scale 5 points, where did you get such a badly injured child, how did he get injured?" the Inpatient Chief of PICU asked.

"They messed around at home; after the child got burned, they used high-proof alcohol to disinfect. That pediatrics department had no severe cases, so we have to trouble you." Su Yun said with a smile.

When asking others for help, Su Yun's attitude is always good; he knows exactly what he's doing.

"Please check the blood alcohol concentration." Zheng Ren said, "If it's confirmed, we'll probably need dialysis."

"Okay, Zheng Lao Ban." the Inpatient Chief of PICU responded respectfully and politely, then looked at Su Yun and said: "Yun Ge'er, have the patient's family go handle the admission procedures."

"Mm, I'll tell them." Su Yun replied.

Zheng Ren had long been accustomed to such things before his eyes; back when he was in Hai Cheng, it was already commonplace. "Looks are justice" — though that saying isn't entirely correct, it's not far off. For a man who has to wear three layers of masks just to go into surgery, this is all expected.

"You say, how did a perfectly good child end up like this?" the Inpatient Chief of PICU sighed and asked: "Zheng Lao Ban, there's a problem with the bilateral pupils' light reflex; I'm preparing to give mannitol, what do you think?"

"Sure, go ahead." Zheng Ren saw the nurse had already started drawing blood; he knew all measures had to wait for the test results before proceeding. Previously, he could only give symptomatic treatment, which counted as emergency care.

"Sigh, the family's messing around, the child is suffering." the Inpatient Chief of PICU looked at the young patient, his face showing an unspeakable heartache.

"Xin Jie, you've come back to work after the postpartum month; how does it feel like your maternal affection has overflowed to the whole world?" Su Yun instructed Gu Xiao Ran to take the patient's mother to handle the admission procedures, while he chatted and laughed with the Inpatient Chief of PICU.

"Originally there wasn't much wrong; I thought it was just a second-degree burn, but ended up sending the child to the PICU." the Inpatient Chief of PICU said helplessly.

"Back when I was at Xiehe, I once saw a child whose arm was completely black; guess how that happened?" Su Yun asked.

"Black?"

"Never mind, I'll just say it straight." Su Yun said, "It's also a burn; the family's folk remedy used coarse salt to disinfect."

"……" Zheng Ren shook his head.

The Inpatient Chief of PICU asked in surprise: "Isn't that for curing meat?"

"Who knows? Anyway, that child was sent straight to the ICU upon arrival." Su Yun said, "Afterwards I returned to Hai Cheng; the last time I saw him, he still hadn't come out."

"Su Yun, first call the lab to check the blood alcohol concentration as quickly as possible." Zheng Ren said.

"Boss, you're really talkative." Su Yun said while his hands seemed to perform magic, "producing" a phone.

The phone jumped between his fingers; Zheng Ren felt that, if it were just about showing off, Su Yun was practically unbeatable under heaven.

"I've seen a young patient who, upon arrival, was covered in hair all over his body." the Inpatient Chief of PICU looked at Su Yun making a phone call, his eyes sparkling as he said.

"What folk remedy was used?" Zheng Ren leaned against the control console, standing, looking at the child's vital signs, making casual small talk.

"Sesame oil plus a mouse, the furry kind." the Inpatient Chief of PICU said, "They say it's a folk remedy; the child's father used this very thing when he was little and got cured."

It's really hard for children to grow up healthy and safe. Along this road, who knows how many difficulties and obstacles they'll encounter; Zheng Ren thought to himself.

"That's just a little disgusting." After communicating with the lab staff, Su Yun said with a grin: "When I was a kid, one day I saw my classmate come to class with a potato balanced on his fingertip."

"That at least makes a little sense." Zheng Ren said.

"What nonsense." Su Yun said contemptuously: "Such a big potato, they just left a hole for a finger to stick in, the skin wasn't even peeled. Wearing it to school was like performing a circus act."

"Your classmate is really honest, letting her keep it on without even thinking to sneakily take it off."

"If she weren't honest, what could you do? Her mother said, dare to take it off and she'll beat her to death. Think about it: a girl who goes to school every day with a potato balanced on her, the skin unpeeled, the kind that still drops dirt clumps, it gave my classmate a psychological trauma."

Moreover, what Xin Jie said is wrong. The folk remedy of sesame oil plus a mouse does exist, but it requires a newborn mouse; I think that family heard it wrong.

"Even a newborn is disgusting." Zheng Ren glanced at the child's vital signs and casually said: "Please prepare the dialysis machine; I estimate the blood alcohol concentration will be high, so once the test results come back we'll go straight to dialysis. Wait……"

"Zheng Lao Ban, it's already ready; the duty doctor is checking the equipment and tubing." the Inpatient Chief of PICU said.

Zheng Ren nodded; as long as they know what they're doing, that's fine.

"Boss, you didn't notice that just after you finished talking about Xin Jie you sent the duty doctor off to get busy? Your observation skills are terrible." Su Yun said.

Zheng Ren smiled, but didn't respond.

"These aren't even disgusting; I've seen a child with a finger infection that eventually required toe amputation." Su Yun said: "The family said they had to soak it in boy's urine, and as a result, the child's urine after each void was ready for use."

"Then what happened?" the Inpatient Chief of PICU asked.

"Afterwards, he almost died from septic shock." Su Yun said, "But in the end even the little finger couldn't be saved; fortunately it was just a small piece of finger, so cutting it off was fine."

Zheng Ren somewhat disagreed with Su Yun's way of expressing himself.

"If we're talking about folk remedies, when I was in Hai Cheng I encountered a burned child." Zheng Ren steered the topic away from the boy's urine, which is always a feces/urine/fart joke, listening to it is disgusting, "after checking, the child was taken back by an elderly person, who said they had a folk remedy at home."

"Then what happened?"

"After half a month, the child came for a follow-up; I saw that he had mostly healed."

"This kid's life is truly big."

"They said to take earthworms dug from the ground, put them in sugar water or salt water, let them dissolve, and the resulting liquid has extremely strong healing ability."

"Nonsense." Su Yun pouted, "One earthworm turning into two isn't how that works."

"In TCM, earthworms are called ground dragons, having the effects of clearing heat, calming wind, unblocking meridians, reducing swelling, and relieving pain. I think this folk remedy could be researched; it's not necessarily false." Zheng Ren said.

"The more nonsense, the more nonsense; let me tell you about boy's urine……"

Su Yun began talking about boy's urine and treating cough caused by rising false-heat from yin deficiency, speaking for a full three minutes; the Inpatient Chief of PICU, who kept refreshing the test reports, suddenly said: "Zheng Lao Ban, Yun Ge'er, the results are out!"

"How much?"

"4.82 mg/ml."

This value matches the threshold for adult drunk driving; there's nothing more to say—hurry up and start dialysis. If it were any later, a child under three probably couldn't survive metabolizing and absorbing that much alcohol.

He already has cerebral edema, liver function hasn't returned yet, and we estimate liver function will also be problematic.