Doctor, I beg you, I don't want to leave this world. The patient grabbed the doctor's hand and begged for help, and he accidentally ingested paraquat by mistake.
The doctor had mixed feelings, looked at his pitiful appearance, and finally just let out a sigh: "Silly boy, paraquat is like that, after you drink it, you will have time to regret it, but you will not have a chance to change." ”
Paraquat is actually a pesticide whose main ingredient is glycyrrhizol, which is effective in controlling weeds. Regrettably, however, it has been used for suicide.
Once paraquat enters the body, it is not immediately fatal, but it can attack the lungs.
Initially, people taking paraquat will experience chest tightness and shortness of breath, which will gradually worsen until the lungs become fibrotic and breathless. In other words, a person who takes paraquat will be suffocated to death, and the pain can be imagined.
For a time, the discussion of paraquat was very loud, and Li Dejun, as the "father of paraquat", also had nowhere to complain.
As we all know, our country is a large agricultural country, so our grain production is quite considerable. However, we have a large area of arable land, but there are also some problems. For example, the fields are overgrown with weeds, which absorb nutrients from food crops, resulting in insufficient food production.
Farmers have no other option but to buy pesticides. The original pesticides were actually imported from the UK, so they were expensive and difficult for the average household to afford.
Li Dejun of the Shandong Provincial Research Institute attaches great importance to this situation, and he has always believed that if we Chinese can produce pesticides independently, then all problems will be solved.
Initially, Li Dejun was responsible for the research alone, and although he worked very hard and made many attempts, the results were still unsatisfactory.
With the passage of time, the country began to pay attention to the research and development of pesticides, providing Li Dejun with a lot of resources, and finally let him have a professional team. The crowd gathered firewood and the flame was high, and a group of people quickly solved a problem that one person could not solve. In 1999, Li Dejun's team successfully developed a pesticide.
Weeds disappear quickly under the action of this pesticide, and the speed at which it is amazing. As a result, the pesticide has been given the resounding name "paraquat". Paraquat is not only effective, but also inexpensive, and has become a popular choice for many farmers, and for a time it has become an indispensable pesticide for almost every household.
Farmers' incomes have increased several times, much to Li's relief, given the popularity of his paraquat.
He originally thought that it would be very meaningful to be able to contribute to farmers. However, he never expected that the pesticides he developed were for the purpose of treating crops, and some people would actually use them for drinkingWhat's going on here?
In 2021, a young man named Li Hongda was taken to the hospital for resuscitation**. He was a poor child who had no parents since he was a child and was raised by his grandparents. However, fate made people, and his grandparents also passed away one after another, leaving Li Hongda to live alone.
Eventually, he could no longer bear the loneliness, and late one night, Li Hongda drank 150 millilitres of paraquat with the strength of alcohol, and then began to cough incessantly, causing him to have difficulty breathing.
When he was found, he was already vomiting black blood and was in a coma. The doctors had tried their best to treat the poor child, but he had already consumed a large amount of paraquat and it was too late to be discovered. Eleven days later, Li Hongda said goodbye to the world in pain.
In October of the same year, a similar tragedy occurred when a 13-year-old girl drank paraquat on the spur of the moment after an argument with her family.
As a young child, she had no idea about the dangers of paraquat and accidentally ingested 50 millilitres of paraquat.
Her family was alert and actively tried to save her, quickly feeding her water in the hope that she would be able to spit out the paraquat she had taken. The little girl's face contorted in pain, and she was forced to spit out a few mouthfuls of water, but it was not clear what she had vomited. The family did not dare to delay and immediately rushed her to the hospital.
At that time, it was the eleventh ** week, and tourists were coming, causing traffic congestion, and she urgently needed rescue time. The mother immediately reported the situation to the traffic police, hoping for their help.
After verifying that her account was true, the traffic police immediately called in the police force so that they could help her seek medical treatment in a timely manner. Half an hour later, the little girl was taken to the hospital.
After the little girl accepted **, her condition seemed to be under control and was no longer as painful as before, and her family was relieved to think that the matter was over.
However, no one expected that two days later her condition suddenly deteriorated, and she began to have hemoptysis, difficulty breathing, and even on a ventilator to no avail. After examination, it was found that the girl's lungs were already severely fibrosis and there was almost no chance of salvage.
In rural areas, there are actually many people who end their lives by drinking paraquat on the spur of the moment, and some even poison paraquat.
In 2016, this happened in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Zhang Liang (pseudonym) and Xiufang (pseudonym) are regarded by outsiders as a model couple, they have been married for many years and have always had a good relationship.
However, Zhang Liang always felt that his wife was very busy during this time and neglected family affairs. As time passed, he began to wonder if his wife was cheating.
Xiufang left the house in a hurry, which made the suspicion in Zhang's conscience even stronger. Eventually, he became enraged and grabbed the paraquat and wiped it on his wife's **. Looking at his wife's back, the doubts in his heart became stronger and stronger.
Zhang Liang's idea is actually very simple, and he believes that as long as he does not drink paraquat directly, there will not be much danger. Afterwards, he even forgot about it, until Xiufang accidentally put on a ** with paraquat on it, and the veil of truth was revealed.
In an instant, Xiufang felt difficult to breathe, and finally fell into a coma. Zhang Liang rushed her to the hospital, but it was too late, and Xiufang had already passed away, leaving behind a lonely child.
Zhang Liang never thought that his impulse would lead to the direct death of his wife, and his original purpose was just to punish his wife. As you can imagine, how toxic is paraquat?It can be fatal even when not consumed directly.
Instead of boasting about paraquat as an excellent pesticide, people now talk about its "lethal effect". This mentality has gradually developed in recent years.
As the creator of paraquat, Li Dejun was deeply distressed when he saw these heartbreaking cases. After all, he originally developed paraquat with the intention of improving the average person's harvest and making every family happy. However, who would have thought that the advent of paraquat would take the lives of countless people.
Obviously, he didn't want that outcome, because he didn't expect anyone to drink pesticides. Li Dejun believes that the paraquat he developed is like a wayward child, but now it is killing countless people, which is absolutely not going to work.
After much deliberation, he set up the Paraquat Social Responsibility Working Group to raise funds and save lives for victims of paraquat ingestion.
It was also suggested whether paraquat could be banned. Considering that paraquat has already taken a toll on many lives, wouldn't it be better to simply ban its sale?
However, there is no pesticide on the market that can completely replace paraquat, either it is expensive or not as effective as paraquat, which is a bit of a shame.
As the developer of paraquat, Li Dejun knows the pesticide inside out. He is convinced that paraquat is not a serious crime and has the significant advantage of being soilless and environmentally friendly.
It's a shame that this excellent pesticide should be banned because it is considered a poison. In order to save this "restricted child", Li Dejun also spared no effort, conducted a lot of research and proposed many solutions.
He first changed the color of paraquat to a dark green, a dark color that looked completely unsuitable for consumption, and added an unpleasant smell to it.
Li Dejun did not believe that even if the situation was so serious, anyone would still drink paraquat. Paraquat packaging is deliberately labelled as "not edible" in oversized font to prevent others from overlooking this.
Despite his efforts, paraquat deaths continue to occur as a result of the fact that many people see paraquat as a "miracle cure" and consume it in desperation.
Li Dejun's headache became more serious, because he found that "good words can't persuade damn ghosts", so he turned to another angle. In order to get away with paraquat, he added an emetic to it, so that when people took paraquat, they would vomit involuntarily.
He also tried to change the form of paraquat from a liquid to a solid state. Li Dejun did this out of a sense of responsibility, because paraquat was like a masterpiece to him, and despite its flaws, it also worked with the help of countless people.
However, in an effort to save more lives, paraquat was banned in 2020. Paraquat has been in existence for 20 years until 2020.
Over the past 20 years, paraquat has helped countless families increase food production and boost agriculture, but it has also cost many lives to life.
We have always had both positive and negative assessments of paraquat, but fundamentally, paraquat itself is not harmful. Li Dejun's original intention of research and development was good, he wholeheartedly developed pesticides for the sake of the people and agricultural development, not for poisoning or suicide.
Due to the weakness of human nature, various harms have been caused. Therefore, we would like to remind everyone to cherish life and not to act irreversibly on impulse. Turn the page in 2023