If you catch a cold, will you carry it hard? A seemingly unremarkable cold may kill you.
Recently, a number of bloggers wrote that Ren Rongrong, the second baby mother of online celebrity in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, died of a cold at the age of 38. According to an insider, Ren Rongrong’s cold and fever caused pneumonia, and his condition developed too fast. According to the information disclosed by her husband, Ren Rongrong had symptoms of cold and fever on January 21, but he did not go to the hospital for breastfeeding. He went to the hospital on the 22nd and was transferred to intensive care on the 23rd. After six rescues, he failed to save him. He died on the 24th, and the whole process was only four days.
This unexpected tragedy sounded a health alarm for us. Why can a small cold have such a big consequence?Should I carry a cold or see a doctor? What should I do if my mother is sick during lactation? Can I take medicine?
Ren Rongrong’s related short video account in Tik Tok reads: "After 80, the second-born mother recorded her daily routine with video, with her sister in August of 19 and her sister in November of 23." This account not only records the daily parenting, but also brings goods. Its top video said, "It is an entrepreneurial treasure mother who is trying to change the status quo."
On January 21 ST, the account posted a video saying, "The second-born mother dragged on for two, and she caught a cold and had a fever during lactation. I lost my voice and cried with great pain."
However, five days later, on January 26th, the account published an obituary saying that Ren Rongrong, his beloved wife, died on January 24th at the age of 38. After that, the account said that it was ready to keep this account and leave a thought for relatives, friends and children.
On January 27th, the account again posted that: My wife’s physical condition was normal on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, her temperature was 38.7 degrees, and she wanted to hold on to breast-feeding her child … On Monday afternoon, she was a little tired, and in the evening, she collapsed. At 8 o’clock in the evening, I said we should stop holding on and go to the hospital … On Tuesday, the doctor said that we should be sedated and anesthetized and put on the ventilator and transferred to intensive care … The symptoms showed no signs of improvement, and then she went into a deep coma, after 6 years.
The article also stated that "At present, the diagnosis conclusions given by doctors are severe pneumonia, type 1 respiratory failure and septic shock.I regret it very much. I can send it to the hospital in time if something happens to Dabao. Why didn’t you drag her to the hospital earlier when she was in trouble? "The reporter privately believed in the account and has not received a reply yet.
An insider who attended the farewell ceremony revealed that Ren Rongrong did die and her husband was handling the follow-up matters. Another Ms. Liu, who knows Ren Rongrong, told reporters that "a cold and fever caused pneumonia, and the condition developed too fast."
The 38-year-old Bao Ma died suddenly due to pneumonia caused by a cold. Many netizens were shocked and sorry about this.
There is also a doctor, Dr. V, who appeared to remind: "Don’t underestimate the cold, especially the flu. Although there is generally no serious illness, it can really kill people."
According to Dr. Yang from a hospital in Changsha, generally speaking, people who are old and weak, have weak resistance or have basic diseases are more likely to suffer from pneumonia. For example, people with basic diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes will have repeated attacks of lung inflammation due to poor resistance, which will aggravate the original diseases such as asthma, bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and seriously affect the ventilation function of the respiratory system.
In addition,Nowadays, many young people are stressed and love to stay up late, which will lead to the decline of the body’s resistance. Once they catch a cold, it is easy to delay into pneumonia. If you don’t pay attention to a small cold, you don’t take medicine or treat it. You always feel that if you are young and healthy, you can delay it. As a result, you go to the doctor after a long cough or a high fever. This may be the main reason for the frequent occurrence of pneumonia in young adults.
Dr. Yang reminded that to prevent pneumonia, we should first pay attention to keeping warm when changing seasons, so as to prevent the respiratory tract from losing its ability to resist viruses and bacteria due to severe temperature changes, and then pay attention to air circulation. Especially for the elderly with weak constitution and poor resistance, they are prone to repeated infections in an environment with poor air circulation. Once the family members find that the elderly have poor spirits and poor appetite after catching a cold, they must go to the hospital to check and rule out whether they have pneumonia.
Generally, pneumonia is not serious as long as it is treated in time, but some young people don’t take it seriously after catching a cold, thinking that good health can resist the past. It is difficult to control the illness after it is delayed, especially for young people who are working overtime and tired, and continuing to work hard after catching a cold is to accelerate the "depreciation" of the body.
In addition, citizens should pay attention to a reasonable diet, light diet, eat less spicy food, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, pay attention to drinking more water, ensure adequate sleep, and pay attention to the combination of work and rest to prevent immunity from declining.
The common clinical symptoms of pneumonia mainly include cough, expectoration, chills, fever, or nausea, vomiting and dyspnea.,Critical patients may also have clinical manifestations of shock such as syncope, blood pressure drop and loss of consciousness, and even life-threatening. But according to different pathogen infection, there may be different clinical manifestations.
The symptoms of pneumonia are very similar to colds, such as cough, fever, listlessness, cold hands and feet, etc. Although there are many common manifestations, there are several basic dividing points between colds and pneumonia:
1. Anatomically. A cold is an upper respiratory infection, which refers to acute inflammation from the external nostril to the lower edge of cricoid cartilage, including nasal cavity, pharynx or larynx. Pneumonia is a lower respiratory tract infection, that is, a respiratory tract infection below the throat.
2. From the clinical manifestations. The cough of a cold is not very severe, with less sputum or easy to cough up. The onset of cold is more urgent, mainly manifested as sneezing, stuffy nose, runny nose, sore throat and so on. The cough of pneumonia is often severe and frequent, with excessive phlegm and even asthma and shortness of breath. Some patients have difficulty breathing.
3. From the treatment methods. Most colds can heal themselves, and generally do not need anti-infection treatment. The most common pneumonia is community-acquired pneumonia. According to the severity of the disease, initial empirical anti-infection treatment should be given as soon as possible.
For most healthy people, the common cold can heal itself without seeing a doctor, but please see a doctor in time if:
Although the common cold is a minor illness, there are still complications.It is generally recommended that cold medicine should not be taken continuously for more than one week. If the symptoms are still not relieved or disappeared after taking it continuously for one week, they should go to the hospital for treatment.
2. For patients with chronic diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and lung diseases or children and the elderly with low immunity,It is very necessary to seek medical treatment in time for a cold. If not treated in time, it may aggravate the original condition or induce other diseases, such as pneumonia and viral myocarditis.
It’s not the common cold but the flu.The common cold has severe nasal symptoms but mild systemic symptoms, while the flu has severe systemic symptoms but mild nasal symptoms, which are mainly manifested as sudden onset of high fever, headache, myalgia and general malaise. The body temperature can reach 39-40℃, and there may be systemic symptoms such as chills, aching muscles and joints all over the body, fatigue and loss of appetite, which are often accompanied by sore throat, dry cough, stuffy nose, runny nose, discomfort behind the sternum and flushing on the face. Although they look similar, the course of influenza progresses faster. If not treated in time, severe pneumonia, viral myocarditis and so on may occur, even life-threatening. Therefore, influenza should be treated with antiviral drugs within 48 hours after symptoms appear.
Whether to bite your teeth or take medicine for weaning when you are sick during lactation is the most tangled problem for Bao Ma. In fact, neither of these practices is desirable. When a lactating mother is sick, she can neither carry it hard nor blindly use drugs. She should seek the help of doctors and pharmacists in time to use drugs correctly, reasonably and safely.
Wang Yuwei, a professor of pediatrics and doctoral supervisor at Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, pointed out that breastfeeding mothers can continue breastfeeding during a cold, and try to choose single-component drugs when taking medicine.
Wang Yuwei explained that the most common disease of lactating women is upper respiratory tract infection, which can cause symptoms such as fever, sneezing, runny nose, sore throat and cough. There is no need to stop breastfeeding during this period, because whether it is bacterial or viral infection, when the mother has symptoms, the baby has already been exposed to the infected environment. Antibodies that have been produced in milk are beneficial to infants’ resistance to diseases. Generally speaking, the cold virus does not spread through breastfeeding, but through respiratory air droplets. In addition, breast milk is the most ideal food for babies. Interrupting breast-feeding is not good for babies’ growth and development, and it will also affect their psychological development. So mother can continue breastfeeding during the cold.
If it is a cold with fever, it is recommended that mother stop breastfeeding for 1-2 days during high fever..
There are several medication principles that should be paid attention to when catching a cold during lactation:
1. Use appropriate drugs only when the condition really requires medical treatment;
2. Try to choose single-component drugs and avoid using compound preparations;
3. Give priority to external preparations, followed by oral preparations, and finally intravenous infusion;
4. Choose the right time for medication. It is recommended to give medicine immediately after breastfeeding, and delay the next breastfeeding time as much as possible, at least 4 hours apart, so that most drugs can be metabolized and excreted in the mother’s body, and the drug concentration in the milk will be reduced;
Spring Festival travel rush is opening, and the Spring Festival is approaching. Recently, people’s mobility and gathering activities have increased, and the risk of respiratory diseases such as colds and flu has increased. Pai Paijun reminds readers that health and safety must not be relaxed!
(References: Upstream News, Image Network, Morning News, Popular Science China, Changsha Central Hospital, Nanning CDC, China Pharmaceutical magazine, comments from netizens, etc.)
Topic Host | Reporter Wu Xia
