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Temperatures plunged cause of hospital patients get together doctors : to protect the upper respiratory tract
Sichuan Online news ( Sichuan Online reporters Alvarez ) Recently, Chengdu temperatures continue to decline , a change in the warm weather during the Spring Festival , the Chinese New Year holidays as the weather changes unexpectedly and end to major hospitals for treatment of colds and other respiratory diseases in patients with sudden increased.
10, the reporter learned from the Second People's Hospital of Chengdu , a significant increase in cases of respiratory diseases and respiratory medicine Festival hospital emergency department admissions , respiratory emergency department admissions cases alone accounted for 30% of the outpatients daily trips so , respiratory ward is overcrowded.
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Festival overcrowded departments get together and see a doctor
After the Spring Festival, the weather generally cool , Chengdu began to get cold from overnight up . Just past years , ushered in major hospitals admissions " small peak" , which came to interrogation of many patients with respiratory diseases , fever, acute pharyngitis , upper respiratory tract infection cases are also prominent. 10 morning , Ben reporter visited the Chengdu Second People's Hospital emergency department and Respiratory Medicine , it is understood , after the Spring Festival to the hospital emergency department for treatment of respiratory disease , accounting for 30% of the subjects even more doctor visits each day , and breathe a ward of hospital admissions from more than 100 beds before the holiday to more than 150 beds, already overcrowded , an intravenous injection rooms also hard to find .
" Closely related to respiratory diseases and climate change, sudden drop in incidence of respiratory diseases is good , so cold sick people will increase ." Yan Hao , director of Respiratory Medicine, City Hospital , told reporters after the Spring Festival drastic changes in temperature , a class of common cold significant increase of the patient. In addition, many patients are reluctant to go to the hospital before the holiday , but the choice after the New Year after the "get together" to see a doctor , but also to the hospital is not a small increase in pressure .
Yan Hao reminded, dramatic changes in temperature , people with chronic respiratory diseases should raise concerns about their bodies , especially patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) , to be more vigilant. Yan Hao said , the temperature dropped tend to make COPD patients sicker , with particular attention to the warmth and prevention of respiratory infections.
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Chinese New Year is the main cause of sudden temperature drop will play out sick
Marked increase in the number of outpatient and inpatient patient respiratory unabated , involving various groups bring together the young , but the symptoms are mainly manifested as high fever , coughing and so on. Medical analysis, colds and other respiratory diseases outbreaks after the Spring Festival are mainly two reasons . First, the Chinese New Year just started a few days mild climate , being about to turn cold cold air , so the weather becomes coldest since the winter , when the body's adaptability is limited, so sick.
In addition , " eating and drinking " irregular eating during the Chinese New Year , entertainment late at night disrupted circadian clock , decreased immunity , also become a human pathogenic incentives , making the body attacked by viruses. Visiting friends and relatives during the Lunar New Year , also increases the risk of cross- infection.
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