Seeing a doctor in Australia is really a perpetual pain in the eyes of all people living in Australia, either waiting endlessly or misdiagnosed to prescribe the wrong medicine. Recently, a mother from Queensland took her son to the hospital to see a doctor. After examination, the doctor did not prescribe any medication. Instead, she asked the child to go home and have a Coke?
We've heard too much about the dangers of drinking coke: obesity, tooth decay, bone health, kidney damage, sleep damage. It's a bad thing, but why would the doctor let a 2-year-old drink coke, starting with what the child swallowed.
Kristie, the mother of two sons, sat on the beach playing with his brother while Kristie was talking to his brother when he suddenly caught a glimpse that his younger son was putting a suspicious thing in his mouth.
Soon after, Kristie turned to his younger son, trying to stop him from swallowing and trying to take something out of his mouth. But it was too late, and the youngest son put his hand in his mouth and told his mother that he had eaten it.
The son swallowed the unknown object, Kristie was extremely anxious, although the child did not have any adverse reactions, but Kristie immediately picked him up to the hospital.
Immediately after arriving at the hospital, the doctor arranged an X-ray examination for the child. After half an hour of intense waiting, Kristie got the results. The results showed that a shell 39.2mm long and 0.8mm wide was stuck longitudinally at the top of his son's abdomen.
Doctors immediately discussed ways to remove shells, but none was ideal because the procedure was too risky for a 2-year-old.
Doctors told Kristie, they couldn't determine if the shells were sharp at both ends. If the shells moved through the abdomen and pierced other organs, things would be out of control and the surgery would only get worse. I wonder if my son will suffer more harm as a result.
Finally, the medical team involved in the discussion came up with a plan to let shells stay in the baby's abdomen for a week before making a decision.
Kristie and the child were discharged after a night in the hospital, and members of the medical team were still debating whether the proposed procedure was feasible, but given the size of the shell, they decided to stay away from the operation for a while, given the size of the shell.
Before leaving the hospital, Kristie was advised to drink 300 milliliters of coke a day after her return home, drink for seven consecutive days, and return to the hospital for an X-ray after seven days.
Coca-Cola said, do not know that they still have the efficacy of treatment?
Although Kristie thought it was incredible, he still felt like he was doing what the doctor told him to do.
In fact, this seemingly "pointless" treatment, is not completely unfounded. Dr. Gino Pecoraro, a spokesman for the Royal Academy of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Australia and New Zealand, says this approach is not unreasonable, and the principles we have learned in junior high school!
The shell's main ingredient is calcium carbonate, which breaks down into carbon dioxide, gas, water and calcium salts when it comes into contact with carbonated cola.
The doctor asked Kristie's son to stick to Coke, in order to dissolve the sharp edge of the shell through a simple chemical reaction, so that the dissolved shell may pass through the top of the abdomen without scratching the child.
It sounds like a few cans of coke, and we can treat ourselves at home by swallowing shellfish.
However, doctors still recommend that in the event of a similar situation, the first time to take the child to the hospital for X-ray examination. Because sometimes we can't be sure what the child swallowed, where it was stuck, or that the sharp edge of the shell had scratched the internal organs, all of which we could not have expected. X-ray results can help us to make the next treatment judgment.
When Kristie got home, he followed his doctor's instructions to drink coke continuously, but the effect was less obvious because the coke contained less carbonic acid and was broken down by enzymes in the mouth as it passed through the mouth.
Five days after the incident, the shell's dissolution was not optimistic and there were no signs of passing through the abdomen.
Kristie's mood is also growing, and she's been suffering this week, and a two-year-old who eats so much caffeine and sugar every day makes her think the "treatment" is ridiculous.
She also waits for the results of another X-ray to determine whether the case has shrunk, as doctors say, and how much, so that it can be further determined for the next treatment.
Kristie's mood now can only be described with heartache and helplessness.