Suffering from sodoku because of a mouse bite

Being bitten by a rat, a week later, Mr. 40-year-old Manh Hung in Hung Yen was feverish, swollen toes, and doctors diagnosed sodoku.

Mr. Manh had five days of treatment at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases (Hanoi). Earlier he was bitten by a rat on his toes, only bleeding. A week later the red-eyed toes were swollen, fever, and people were hot and cold at the time, thinking that because of viral fever, he bought medicine to drink himself but two days did not see a decrease. Seeing the doctor, the doctor appointed him to be hospitalized with sodoku due to the bite of the rat.

Rat bite, called sodoku disease , is known for a long time, caused by a type of spirochete called Spirillum minus . Doctor Nguyen Trung Cap, Head of the Emergency Department, Central Hospital of Tropical Diseases said, when infected, the place where the bite will be red swollen, people with fever, swollen lymph nodes . If not properly diagnosed, treat promptly The more swollen the lymph nodes, the more vomiting, nausea, joint pain, and severe lead to arthritis, meningitis, fever may last several months. Mortality rate is about 5-10%.

Mice are mediators that transmit many diseases, including sodoku.(Photo: Wikihow).

Every year, the hospital receives about 10-20 patients with sodoku caused by mice. Initially simple bite so many patients do not notice. Early detection, timely treatment is very simple, just use common antibiotics, strong antibiotics do not work. However, if detected late, the treatment process is very complicated. The diagnosis of disease depends entirely on the clinical experience of the doctor.

The incubation period is usually between five days and four weeks. A sudden onset of illness with a high fever, chills, fever into episodes, a non-cyclic fever, alternating periods of no fever, may be hemorrhagic. At the bite site, external skin lesions can go away on their own, but the inside is necrotic and reacts with regional lymph nodes. Patients show signs of myalgia, arthralgia and often lead to arthritis. More severe, patients with headaches, hallucinations, delirium lead to coma.

Most patients exhibit mild illness and respond well to common antibiotics. Severe complications if left untreated include meningitis, myocardial infarction, hepatitis, pleurisy, epididymitis, anemia.

Experts recommend mice to mediate a lot of diseases, so avoid being bitten by mice. When catching mice, do not use bare hands but wear thick gloves. Clean the house, keep the furniture damp and indiscriminate, make the place to stay and breed. When sleeping, insert tight curtains four corners of the bed to prevent the mouse from biting. If the mouse is accidentally bitten, then it should be cleaned with saline, antiseptic, soapy water, then go to the hospital for timely examination and counseling.

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