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China - Fujian - Fuzhou: 12-year-old boy with fever of unknown virus caused severe pneumonia & multi-organ bleeding - 20 days of treatment necessary

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Junior infection with fever of unknown viruses caused severe pneumonia four days Xiansang Ming

Time: 2014-04-01

12-year-old boy sudden onset of high fever, causing severe pneumonia, and nearly died. Emergency doctors and nurses to treat more than 20 days before he turned the corner. Doctors advise parents of children at home while nursing a fever, if self-medication for three days has not improved, or shortness of breath, fever and other symptoms, should immediately go to hospital for treatment. Rapid deterioration of the disease within two hours of Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital of Fuzhou Colin East as director told reporters, March 5 A morning children into (a pseudonym) is then sent to the emergency department, before that he had a fever for four days, but in the community hospital . After the emergency department physician admissions to see the children that a serious condition, immediately carry out blood, chest X-ray and other tests taken and close monitoring. Two hours later, the children hypoxia obviously, was admitted to the intensive care unit. Hospital-wide consultation to determine the unexplained severe pneumonia. 8 pm children suddenly appeared irregular breathing, apnea phenomenon, the rescue team to take immediate endotracheal intubation, ventilator-assisted breathing on a rescue treatment, then chest radiograph showed bilateral pulmonary lesions become white lung further exacerbate (indicating extremely serious lung disease), also appeared in liver function, cardiac function failure.   

"Children systemic multi-organ bleeding, tracheal intubation was opened, blood spurts out." Director Lin introduced, lungs, skin, and other organs have nasal bleeding, kidney failure also appeared three days after admission. Or infected with the mutated virus from the inspection, the child is infected with a very dangerous virus, the virus is very stubborn, now do not know specifically what kind, is likely to be variation. As director, said Lin Dong, child illness symptoms quickly change requires close observation of medical personnel in the intensive care unit. Hospitals also immediately launched a first consultation in collaboration with Fudan University Children's Hospital after the proposed follow-up treatment. A third appeared to renal failure, a hospital in Fuzhou, City Hospital, the city hospital for infectious diseases in turn sent experts to assist in taking dialysis and other treatment measures.   

Chen said that his son is 12 years old, is a tall boy Zhuangzhuang, usually results in the class has remained the top three, very regular life, school bags on a home wash down a meal a day. At 4:00 on March 5 and more children after four days of continuous fever, sudden shortness of breath, did not think about the condition becomes critical. Parents told reporters, Director Lin consecutive five days to keep the child around, the sixth day, only to see his first home bath.   

Lam Dong as Director reminded, when parents of children with a fever at home care, better yet, if self-medication for three days, they should immediately go to a large hospital for treatment. (Reporter Li Xihui Mao Zhaoqing)

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