Chapter 803 - 375: Just Drink Tea—Overly Rich Cerebral Blood Vessels

Chapter 803: Chapter 375: Just Drink Tea—Overly Rich Cerebral Blood Vessels

The female white-collar worker looked quite shocked after listening.

"Isn’t carbonated drinks something everyone drinks? I used to like milk tea, and there was a colleague who loved it even more than I did. Later, she got sick, and when she went to the hospital for a blood test, the doctor found her blood had turned pink, allegedly due to drinking milk tea. That scared me so much I never dared to drink milk tea again. When I was little, my family was poor, and we could only see Coke or Sprite on the dining table during holidays.

If drinking this is unhealthy, I haven’t heard of anyone having problems after drinking it for so many years.

Besides, aren’t foreigners the ones who love this the most?"

She felt very perplexed.

At twenty-four, even though she was already a boss and involved in foreclosure real estate work, her knowledge and experience were ultimately limited.

Our countrymen have always had a mentality of admiring foreign things.

Human beings have a tendency to follow the crowd.

She felt that since everyone drinks it, and there are no problems after drinking it for so many years, Coke is very safe.

In fact, Coke does indeed meet food safety standards.

In traditional Chinese medicine, many drugs are toxic, but as long as they are within a safe dosage, they can cure people’s ailments.

Discussing toxicity without considering dosage is simply absurd.

The same principle applies to eating; a food consumed in large quantities over a long period, even beef recommended by fitness trainers, can increase many health risks.

Such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, coronary heart disease, and more.

Moreover, eating a lot of meat for a long time greatly increases the risk of various cancers.

Everything requires moderation.

Too much or too little is both bad.

"You can go online and research the long-term consumption hazards of carbonated drinks yourself. Actually, it’s not only Coke; other carbonated beverages are equally unsuitable for excessive consumption. A healthier lifestyle is simply drinking water. If you want to refresh yourself, I suggest drinking tea."

Li Jingsheng couldn’t provide her with detailed information.

Many health knowledge is better for patients to learn on their own.

"Can I drink tea? Then I won’t drink Coke anymore, I’ll drink black tea and green tea."

Her words almost made Li Jingsheng break down.

Such a beautiful lady, with some achievements in her career, yet who knows why her thinking is so unconventional.

Black tea and green tea are still carbonated drinks, aren’t they?

"Ahem... I meant tea brewed from tea leaves using plain boiled water, not bottled tea drinks." Many entrepreneurs actually like to brew tea to entertain guests.

Tea tables, tea sets, tea ceremony, have quietly become indispensable items for bosses to entertain friends and clients.

Even many officials are influenced, avoiding those dangerous drinking sessions or dining gatherings, and instead setting up tea tables at home for tea and chat.

"Oh, brewed tea, I see now."

She couldn’t help but laugh.

After Li Jingsheng repositioned her fractured bones, he also performed external fixation.

And prescribed calcium tablets and vitamins for her, teaching her some ways to supplement calcium.

In addition to switching to drinking water and tea, he advised her to get more sun exposure, find time to exercise, aiming to improve osteoporosis as soon as possible.

This female patient was considered resolved.

As she left, Li Jingsheng didn’t forget to remind her to take time to check her liver and kidney function at the hospital.

Problems with these two organs can be very troublesome.

Moreover, when they undergo pathological changes, noticeable symptoms don’t appear immediately.

The liver is referred to by doctors as the most silent organ.

Many patients, when diagnosed, are already in the late stages of liver cancer, losing the opportunity for surgery.

Some may think that even if the liver develops tumors, it’s okay; cutting off two-thirds of it will still regenerate.

The liver indeed has good regenerative abilities, but once it develops tumors, it’s very prone to metastasis.

The world only knows pancreatic cancer is dubbed the king of cancers due to its scary high mortality rate.

But they don’t know liver cancer is equally frightening.

The five-year survival rate is also very low.

Liver cirrhosis, fatty liver, and hepatitis are key inducements to liver cancer.

The kidneys are even more delicate; they act as the body’s faucet filter. If damaged, various toxic substances can’t be expelled, and you may even face anuria or oliguria. If treatment is sought only then, it’s too late.

Liver cirrhosis and kidney failure are irreversible.

The only way is to detect early and intervene promptly for possible recovery.

After sending off this female white-collar worker, Li Jingsheng continued his clinic duty.

Patients coming to him present with diverse ailments.

For those conditions he truly can’t treat or is not skilled in, he can only advise them to seek help elsewhere.

Around ten o’clock, the father of the woman who was completely paralyzed arrived with her treatment documentation from the hospital in the metropolis.

"To treat her illness, we stayed at the hospital for over half a year. Here are the billing statements during the hospitalization, copies of medical records, and other documentation."

The old man is definitely meticulous.

Preserved all the treatment documentation.

Li Jingsheng took them and carefully reviewed.

The hospital’s main treatments included three methods: hormone therapy, vasodilator therapy, and anti-epileptic medication therapy.

Initially, these methods had significant effects.

After treating her for a period, the efficacy declined more and more.

Hormones are inherently ’tiger wolf drugs’, suitable for short-term use. Long-term, excessive hormone use is an extremely shortsighted action.

They can crush a healthy person’s body in no time.

Yet, hormones remain popular in clinical medication.

Including Li Jingsheng himself, who also frequently uses various hormone-containing drugs to treat patients.

The reason is simple: nearly all hormonal medications produce immediate effects once used.

Many people’s understanding of hormones is quite superficial, believing that hormones are substances secreted by glands and are completely safe.

For example, many people have had skin diseases.

Such as hand fungus, eczema, athlete’s foot...

The market offers a wide variety of medications for treating skin diseases, but for a simple case of hand fungus, you apply the medication and see immediate effects. The itchiness subsides, and the redness and blisters disappear.

Just when the patient thinks they’ve cured their ailment, a few days later, the hand fungus relapses.

So they apply the ointment again.

This time, listening to the doctor’s advice, even if it doesn’t itch and the redness and blisters have gone down, they don’t dare to stop the medication, continuing faithfully until the end of the treatment cycle.

The treatment cycle for skin diseases is generally the skin’s renewal cycle.

Approximately twenty-eight days.

That’s about four weeks.

At this point, some patients may find that after prolonged use of the ointment, the hand fungus seems to have grown stronger.

It seems unfazed by the ointment application.

Actually, from the start, the ointment used was not reliable.

Because those shortsighted and greedy pharmaceutical companies, to sell their drugs, include minimal antifungal ingredients. However, the steroid levels dangerously toe the line.

This results in a situation where one might need two or three tubes of ketoconazole to solve the problem effectively, but they prove ineffective.

Using this kind of medication extensively for a long time can be harmful to the kidneys.

After Li Jingsheng read the treatment records from this specialized hospital in Shanghai, only two words came to his mind: "Truly greedy."

Fortunately, the parents saw their daughter’s condition deteriorating and decisively stopped the treatment, taking her back home.

Otherwise, selling just one house wouldn’t be enough?

They might need to sell their last house when she winds up in the ICU.

And the hospital would consume it all.

The main attending physician, after treating the patient for a period, realized that effectiveness was waning, and already understood the outcome in his heart.

Continuing similar treatment without a clear diagnosis is an extremely irresponsible act toward the patient.

It’s nothing but treating the patient as a cash machine, aiming to have them stay longer in the hospital and make more money.

That’s the difference between private and public hospitals.

Public hospitals can also be greedy, but they at least have some supervisory mechanisms.

Private hospitals, some notorious ones, are truly life-threatening.

However, there are good hospitals among private ones.

Sunshine Clinic is a representative of such hospitals.

Some private hospitals, especially specialized ones, have been passed down through generations, always upholding the benevolence of medical practitioners.

"This hospital initially used hormones, vasodilators, and epilepsy treatment methods, could it be that they suspected the patient had epilepsy at the time?"

Li Jingsheng is not proficient in neurological diseases.

That neurological specialist hospital definitely excels in treating diseases in this field.

Analyzing their medication approach, Li Jingsheng believes the main attending physician likely suspected epilepsy in the patient at the time.

The diagnosis was not confirmed, so the physician didn’t write it down.

Nor would he tell the family.

After all, if the diagnosis was wrong and the family sued, it would be very troublesome.

With this discovery, Li Jingsheng again reviewed the patient’s recent MRI report.

He found many fine blood vessels on the medial side of the patient’s bilateral cerebral hemispheres.

Although he hasn’t performed craniotomies, during anatomy classes, he has dissected human brains.

He feels the blood vessels shouldn’t be so abundant.

This matter might require consulting a neurology expert.

However, the patient had visited many large hospitals, and if there was a problem with these blood vessels, it should have been diagnosed long ago.

Unlike other doctors, Li Jingsheng has always had a very sharp diagnostic intuition.

He has almost never made a mistake.

Especially after reaching a certain level of skill in various medical fields, his diagnostic intuition has become more refined and precise.

From the first glance at these vessels, he felt something was unusual.

They shouldn’t be so abundant and fine.

Like a region with limited area, if too many people live there, conflicts are inevitable.

Fighting over resources becomes highly likely.

Today Zhang takes Li’s land, tomorrow Li fights over Zhang’s water rights.

The child’s parents also mentioned that she was very bright with great academic performance while studying.

Moreover, after entering the ninth grade, she complained of headaches several times.

"When your child was fourteen or fifteen and first complained of headaches, did you take her to the hospital for examinations?"

Li Jingsheng asked the elderly man.

"We took her to a hospital near the school for examinations. They didn’t find any problems."

"Do you remember what checks were done?"

"We didn’t understand anything at the time, just knew it cost us nearly three hundred yuan total."

"Is the examination data still retained?"

Li Jingsheng, unwilling to give up, asked again.