Vietnam: Many people with strange diseases, dangerous

Saturday, 22/05/2010, 02:50 (GMT +7)
The weather is hot, stuffy continuously extended across the country have made many people ill. Not only the common diseases like influenza, viral fever, diarrhea, dengue fever outbreak strong ... which appeared especially those patients suffering strange symptoms, no cause can be determined.

Maternity strange pneumonia infection

Intermediate Doctor Nguyen, Deputy Head of the Emergency Treatment-positive, Tropical Diseases Hospital central concern, said the hospital had recently received three pregnant women in Hanoi, Hai Duong, Hai Chamber of pneumonia was especially weird and can not find the root cause disease despite repeated tests. These patients hospitalized in serious condition to life, severe respiratory failure, two white lungs, low blood pressure. All patients must be placed ventilation and windpipe.

Level Doctor adds: "Before the status of such patients, when hospitalized think we can be infected with influenza A/H5N1, H1N1, or H3N2, but many times still can not find the test virus disease. Though not find the pathogenic virus but still focused hospitals isolate patients, treatment of positive symptoms on the status of severe pneumonia due to acute respiratory failure in patients with advanced pregnancy, the risk of death up to 60% as the world medical literature. " However, until now, all these three cases would initially cover of danger.

Especially patients with L. Nguyen Thi My, 22, 34 weeks of pregnancy (in Duc Hoa, Soc Son, Hanoi), has been taken to support a baby weighing 1.7 kg and the baby is being raised glass cage at the Central Pediatrics Hospital. At the same time, hospitals also continue to send samples of three patients to the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology for testing to clarify the cause of infection.

According to the Department of Preventive Medicine, from the beginning of the year, the country recorded more than 9480 cases of dengue fever, including 3 deaths; meningitis meningococcal discovered more than 40 cases ( up 32%) malaria cases is 3845 (up 5.34%).

Fever virus, Streptococcus increase

Not only that, recent days, in many hospitals had received a large number of patients including adults and children with fever virus, even more families fever virus family.

Central Pediatrics Hospital, to visit some children up to 1800-2200 cases per day, up about 700 patients, mostly children in which viral fever, pneumonia.

Bad Paul Green Hospital, Bach Mai Hospital, Military Hospital 103 ... of patients to examination and treatment has increased from 30% - 50%, of which 1 / 3 of cases to check are fever virus, with symptoms such as fever 38-40 ° C, headache, fatigue, painful joints.


Meanwhile, MA, Nguyen Hong Ha, Deputy Director of Hospital Central Tropical Diseases, said today receiving hospital must still scattered cases from swine Streptococcus. Since the beginning of the year, with 22 cases of Streptococcus hospitalization and 3 patients currently being treated, including one patient in Hanoi with severe necrosis of the toes, arms, and possible body must be removed.

Some health experts warn, the number of people suffering from dangerous diseases increase rapidly in the coming days, mostly due to hot weather, hot cause, along with habitat in much of the heavy pollution masonry.

But most worrisome is the viral fever outbreak at the time of the epidemic influenza A/H5N1, H1N1, dengue fever, meningitis is still raging, while the initial manifestation of this disease are quite similar each other. Therefore, when these symptoms, especially with young children need to take immediately to medical facilities for examination and treatment.