Month: August 2019

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Occupational Diseases, Demons Around Workers

Recently, the news of a toxic school exploded all major media: CCTV reported that the pollutants in the school’s new site exceeded the standard, including chlorobenzene, carbon tetrachloride, etc. The report pointed out that after the school moved to the new site, nearly 500 students became ill, and even some students found lymphoma, leukemia, etc. Dr. Clove not only expressed sympathy and regret for the sick students in this incident, but also expressed deep concern for another group of people. They are workers who come into contact with benzene and its homologues. These workers may be workers who make leather shoes or paint. They may work on the production line of plastic products, and they may also be engaged in Read More …

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How can children of different ages get sufficient calcium from their diet?

Children want to grow taller, the more calcium, the better? My children don’t like to drink milk. They are extremely anxious! Is there so much to pay attention to taking calcium tablets? These are many parents often have doubts. Calcium, for every age children’s bone growth, height development, is very important. To help children eat enough calcium, just need to pay more attention to some small details, avoid common minefields, the effect can be great. Different age groups and different calcium supplement methods No matter which age group, milk is the main source of calcium. After adding supplementary foods, according to the improvement of chewing function, we began to gradually try to add various other foods rich in calcium. Referring Read More …

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Silicosis

Silicosis is caused by workers inhaling free silica dust for a long time during their work, and is one of the most serious occupational lung diseases. The patient’s manifestations are mainly the formation of lumps of things (nodules) in the lung, the gradual increase of fibrous tissues in the lung (diffuse hyperplasia of fibrous tissues) and other changes, resulting in dyspnea and various symptoms of the whole body. Symptoms of silicosis In the early stage of silicosis, patients may not feel uncomfortable, but if they are examined by X-ray chest film at this time, abnormalities can be found. With the aggravation of silicosis, or suffering from other diseases (such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, bronchitis, etc.) at the same time, more obvious Read More …

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Occupational noise deafness

Occupational noise deafness refers to binaural hearing damage caused by long-term exposure to noise in the workplace. This is the result of long-term influence of noise on auditory organs and belongs to legal occupational diseases. Manifestations of occupational noise deafness The damage of noise to ears generally develops from temporary hearing loss to permanent hearing loss. Short-term exposure to noise environment may only cause short-term hearing loss. After leaving the noisy environment, the hearing can return to the original level after a period of time. With the extension of the exposure time to noise, or the hearing loss caused by the previous exposure to noise has not been fully recovered, and it is necessary to contact again in a short Read More …

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Still not quitting smoking? In case an operation is to be performed one day, it will be unlucky.

Smoking is harmful to health. This sentence has been mentioned for many years. It seems that more and more people are numb and don’t care. They just regard it as a slogan that doesn’t hurt. However, in the doctor’s view, the phrase “smoking is harmful to health” is piled up by fresh and real cases one by one, especially in the face of patients who are about to undergo surgery, smoking all the year round means more complicated and difficult situations. For example, it increases the risk of anesthesia, increases the incidence of various complications before and after surgery, causes the increase of blood pressure during and after surgery, increases the risk of pneumonia, increases the incidence of angina pectoris, Read More …

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Brucellosis

Brucellosis is common in herdsmen, slaughterers, breeders, milkers, health and quarantine personnel, veterinarians and other professional groups. The main epidemic in China is caused by exposure to sheep, followed by cattle and a few pigs. If people come into contact with animals infected with brucellosis, they may get brucellosis. This is a Class B infectious disease and one of the legal occupational diseases in our country. Manifestations of Brucellosis Acute phase: The incubation period is about 2 weeks, mainly realized as fever, hyperhidrosis, chills and joint muscle pain. Hyperhidrosis is one of the prominent manifestations of brucellosis. It sweats profusely during fever reduction. Some patients sweat after falling asleep, do not sweat when waking up (night sweat), and sweat profusely Read More …

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Occupational acute carbon monoxide poisoning

Acute carbon monoxide poisoning is poisoning caused by inhaling high concentration of carbon monoxide in a short period of time, which may cause anoxic manifestations such as headache, dizziness, chest tightness, limb weakness, etc. Acute carbon monoxide poisoning, also known as gas poisoning, is the most common acute occupational poisoning in China and one of the common living poisoning. Manifestations of acute carbon monoxide poisoning According to the degree of poisoning, it can be divided into contact reaction and acute poisoning. Contact reaction: If a relatively small amount of carbon monoxide is inhaled in a short period of time, symptoms such as headache, dizziness, palpitation and nausea may occur. After inhaling fresh air, the symptoms can generally disappear. Acute poisoning: Read More …

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Can you really brush your teeth?

I am often too lazy to brush my teeth, will there be any consequences? There is something wrong with my teeth. How should I deal with it? If my posture is wrong, what is the correct way to brush my teeth? Do you want to know the answers to these questions? Let’s look at the cartoon below (if you can’t see the cartoon, please click here to update the mobile phone client to the latest version.) Looking back on what has been said: Brushing your teeth is sometimes very troublesome. What will happen if you don’t brush your teeth? If you have dental calculus, besides going to the hospital, brushing your teeth is also very important. Brushing time varies from Read More …

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When a child encounters accidental injuries, mastering these methods can save his life.

Perhaps you have seen such similar news: Many parents said they were very scared after watching it. In fact, there are children in the family, so parents need to leave a heart to avoid all kinds of accidental injuries. Not serious injuries are lucky in misfortune. If life-threatening situations are really encountered, it is still necessary for parents to master scientific first aid treatment methods. As an emergency doctor, I hope that after reading this article, you will not have the opportunity to use this knowledge. At the same time, I hope that in case you need to use it, you can recall every word of this article, which may help a life turn from danger to safety. Foreign body Read More …

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Think of 80 years old and still smart? Be sure to do these 6 points!

In the previous article < < Be smart until you are 80 years old, be careful that these 9 points will harm your brain health > > (click on the title to view), we said the reasons why 9 points may affect your brain health. So, what can be done to keep the brain smart and not confused? Let’s look back and forth!