My son's intelligence regressed to one year after he caught a cold
Feng Zhe, 11 years old, his eyes flickered, looking left and right from time to time, with a calm face that did not match his age. He saw his mother tidying up the room, so he kept shuttling between the living room and the bedroom, sitting down and standing up again, making a "poof, poof" sound from his mouth.
Zhou Hong looked at him, her heart full of sadness. "It's okay if he doesn't speak, and when he speaks, others know that he has a problem. She sighed. Zhou Hong, 35, from a remote mountain village in Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, met her husband through a friend and got married in 2010.
After marriage, she worked as a farmer and took care of the elderly, while her husband worked outside the home to earn money. In 2012, the family was looking forward to the arrival of the child, so they named the child Feng Zhe.
Zhezi just hopes that he will be educated, study more, and be admitted to university. Zhou Hong said that the whole family had high hopes for Feng Zhe. Feng Zhe is very smart, speaks earlier than children of the same age, and can already do simple addition and subtraction when other children are still learning to call Mom and Dad.
However, what Zhou Hong didn't expect was that an accident suddenly came.
Picture: 123RF common "cold" mutation nightmare, Feng Zhe experienced the test of life and death At the end of 2018, the life of Zhou Hong's family has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Feng Zhe suddenly had a high fever that did not go away, frequent vomiting and diarrhea, and it looked like a general cold. However, Feng Zhe's condition did not improve because of this, but worsened day by day, and even fell into a coma.
Zhou Hong took the children to the small clinic in the village and the hospital in the city, but they were all diagnosed with fever caused by the common cold. Feng Zhe took cold medicine and antipyretics, but the high fever never subsided, and his condition became more and more serious.
This ordinary "cold" turned out to be a nightmare for Feng Zhe's family.
When children have symptoms such as fever, headache, fatigue, etc., parents should not take it lightly, it may not be a common cold, but a symptom of encephalitis. Encephalitis is a common and critical condition of the nervous system that can cause brain damage and affect a child's future.
Professor Peng Fuhua, deputy director of the Department of Neurology of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, pointed out that the symptoms of encephalitis are diverse, including not only fever, headache and other symptoms, but also serious symptoms such as impaired consciousness, stiff neck, and convulsions throughout the body.
If these symptoms occur, you should immediately seek medical attention to check for encephalitis, and do not self-medicate, so as not to delay the best time.
*, Ruijing's mother faced despair many times, but she didn't give up and finally saved Feng Zhe, who was dying. However, Feng Zhe was left with serious sequelae because of this illness.
He lost his ability to speak and move at home, and although he could walk, his intelligence regressed to the level of a one-year-old child. Every morning, the first thing Zhou Hong does is to help her son get dressed and put on a diaper.
Since Feng Zhe couldn't rinse his mouth, Zhou Hong had to brush his teeth repeatedly with a toothbrush dipped in water to clean the foam in his mouth. Feng Zhe was unable to communicate effectively because of his declining intelligence, and he could only swallow and chew when eating, so Zhou Hong had to make the food into a paste and divide it into small amounts to feed him.
Feng Zhe couldn't sit still, and sometimes he lost his temper, and Zhou Hong had to keep an eye on his situation at all times. What makes Zhou Hong feel most uncomfortable is that such days are repeated every day.
Recently, Feng Zhe had epileptic symptoms in his body, and he would roll on the ground and convulsions without warning when he became sick. At this time, Zhou Hong was very worried that her son would get sick because of a cold, but she couldn't pull him, so she could only wrap him in a quilt and wait for him to calm down.
Long-term fatigue has caused Zhou Hong to prematurely appear gray hair.
Figure: 123RF Professor Peng Fuhua emphasized that the key to improving the effect of encephalitis patients is early identification, clarification and standardization. Encephalitis has a high mortality and disability rate, and 80%-90% of patients will have sequelae such as epilepsy, fatigue, cognitive decline, and personality disorders in cases of delay or poor medical conditions.
Prevention of encephalitis can be done by getting vaccinated (such as the flu, mumps, and measles vaccine) and changing the diet (such as reducing the intake of red meat and carbohydrates), and increasing physical activity.
In addition, maintaining a regular routine and avoiding staying up late for a long time are also important measures to avoid encephalitis. Professor Peng Fuhua reminds us, "Don't give up. When Zhou Hong was physically and mentally exhausted, she was advised to send her son to a welfare home, but Zhou Hong said that although she had felt hopeless many times, she never gave up.
He was a part of my body, and when he learned new words and called Mommy, I was able to get through it. Correspondent Zhou Jinan and Zhen Xiaozhou, author Wang Huiming.