Not all right - This is the 3764th article of Da Yi Xiao Hu

This is the 3764th article of Da Yi Xiao Hu

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Section Chief Wu of the Planning and Supply Department of the County Food Company is a good comrade.

Section Chief Wu's name is Wu Shengshi. He was born in a short period of peace and prosperity before the Cultural Revolution in the last century, so his father gave him this name. His family lives in a place called Wujialing, about 80 kilometers outside the county. The Wu family has been farming and reading for generations. Wu's father has been engaged in rural education all his life. He has been the principal of Wujialing Primary School and is also a respected elder in the local area. The year Section Chief Wu graduated from high school, he joined the army and served as a cultural and educational officer in the army. He performed well in all aspects. After recovery, he returned to the county and was assigned to work in a food company. Soon he married a teacher from the county central primary school. Comrade Wu Shengshi is conscientious and responsible in his work, diligent in learning, proficient in his business, and has been rated as advanced for many years. There is no need to elaborate on his marriage and career.

Comrade Wu Shengshi has only been assigned to work at the food company for a few years, but he has already mastered the company's business and gradually become an expert in the business. All the chores of the family are handled by his wife. They have a daughter, and their mother-in-law helps take care of her, so Wu Jun doesn't have to worry about anything. Wu Jun was born in a scholarly family and has a natural affinity for reading and learning. After work, he reads books and newspapers. In recent years, he has also added online reading. When he opens WeChat and Weibo, all kinds of knowledge come to him. Wu Jun is mainly concerned with literature, history, poetry, novels, etc. In addition to reading, he occasionally publishes "tofu articles" (meaning short) such as random thoughts and miscellaneous notes in the county newspaper supplement, which he considers a pleasure.

Wu Jun is nearly 1.7 meters tall, with fair skin, neat clothes, a flat head, and a pair of light myopic glasses. He speaks in a calm tone, giving people a gentle and elegant feeling. His colleagues jokingly call him "Scholar".

Wu Xiucai's job was to manage the planning, allocation, inspection, and storage of all kinds of food in the county except grain and oil. He had little physical activity and did not do sports. He liked to smoke. Although he was not very particular about food, his wife was good at cooking, and he had a few side dishes and a drink of fine wine almost every night. In addition, he was middle-aged, so he gradually became fatter.

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In recent years, physical examinations have become popular, including blood tests, X-rays, and ultrasound examinations. Problems can be found and appropriate medicine can be prescribed or lifestyle adjustments can be made to prevent them. At first, some people thought that it was just "making trouble", but as time went on, most people gradually understood that prevention should be the first priority for diseases, and physical examinations were gradually accepted. However, although physical examinations were accepted by some people, they did not necessarily take the results seriously. Wu Jun was one of them. Wu Jun was good at learning and should have a correct view of the results of physical examinations. Unfortunately, he did not.

That year, Wu Jun was 52 years old and had been promoted to deputy section chief of the planning and supply department. The physical examination revealed the following problems: blood pressure was 160/94 mmHg, diagnosed as hypertension, high total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the blood, diagnosed as hypercholesterolemia, and fatty liver. The doctor at the county hospital prescribed blood pressure and lipid-lowering drugs, and told him to control his fat diet and exercise more. Section Chief Wu saw that the doctor prescribed blood pressure and lipid-lowering drugs, but no drugs for fatty liver, so he asked why. The doctor explained that it was a common, asymptomatic, and normal liver function fatty liver, and that he did not need to take medicine. He only needed to change his lifestyle, eat less, exercise more, and lose weight, and the fatty liver would be cured without medicine.

Unexpectedly, this speech inspired Chief Wu. He felt that what the doctor said was very reasonable. Physical examination is different from seeing a doctor, because the person being examined originally had no symptoms. Since there are no symptoms and the person is fine, how can he be sick? Since he is not sick, why should he take medicine? Moreover, Western medicine has side effects. If you have side effects, isn’t it what people often say, "looking for trouble?" When he returned home that night, he read the instructions for the blood pressure and blood lipid lowering drugs he was prescribed, and found that there were side effects listed on them, and they were quite scary. So he made up his mind not to take medicine, not only Western medicine, but also Chinese medicine, because he knew that "all medicines are three-point poisonous" and Chinese medicine is not absolutely non-toxic. The most critical problem is: he believes that the high blood pressure and high blood lipids found in the physical examination are not diseases, but just some indicators. It is said on the Internet: People are different, how can they be measured with the same indicators? His blood pressure and blood lipids may be sick for others, but not for him, otherwise how could he not have any symptoms? I have decided not to take the medicine, but I don't mind if the doctor tells me to control the fat in my diet and increase exercise.

His wife was concerned about the results of her husband's physical examination and often advised him to see a doctor and take medicine, but Section Chief Wu disagreed, and there was often some unhappiness between the couple because of this.

Several years later, Section Chief Wu has been promoted to the chief of the Planning and Supply Department. He is getting fatter and fatter, his blood pressure and blood lipids are still high, he still has fatty liver, and his blood sugar is also high, but there are still no obvious symptoms, which makes Section Chief Wu more determined to think: if there are no symptoms, it is not a disease, and if it is not a disease, don't take medicine. Based on this idea, of course he will not go to the doctor, even though he has medical insurance and he is an official in this small county town. It is neither difficult nor expensive to see a doctor and get some medicine.

The daughter has grown up. After graduating from a teachers' college, she teaches at the county middle school. Section Chief Wu and his wife regard her as the apple of their eye. Section Chief Wu has "three highs" and refuses to see a doctor or take medicine. His wife's persuasion is ineffective, so she uses her daughter to do the work. As the saying goes, a daughter is a "little cotton-padded jacket" (a caring meaning), and it is indeed more effective than an old cotton-padded jacket. Section Chief Wu smiled and said:

"You guys are really women's views. The ancients said: There is nothing to worry about in the world, but mediocre people worry about it themselves. They are talking about people like you."

"I am a mediocre person, a mediocre person, born to a mediocre father." Whenever his daughter started to act coquettishly, Section Chief Wu had to put on some gestures. Of course, he also knew that they were doing it for his own good.

Section Chief Wu is the head of a food company. To deal with these "high indicators" that are not diseases, he naturally thought of diet therapy: I heard that drinking Eucommia wine can lower blood pressure, drinking Hawthorn and Dendrobium tea can lower blood lipids, and eating more bitter melon can lower blood sugar. My daughter did say that diet therapy cannot replace drug treatment. Section Chief Wu said:

"Food supplements are worse than medicine supplements, you know? I'm not sick, it's just that these indicators are a little high. I can use these dietary prescriptions left by our ancestors to lower them, it's okay. Don't worry, my name is Wu Shengshi, it's okay."

The mother and daughter were both suffering from poor health. I have heard that “food supplements are worse than medicine supplements”, so the method left by our ancestors should be good.

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After drinking Eucommia wine, hawthorn tea, and eating bitter melon fried with pork, blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar did not drop, but there were still no obvious symptoms, except that the brain seemed to be not very sharp. My wife also learned the method of food therapy: walnuts nourish the brain, sesame and walnuts are ground into powder (no sugar is added), and she mixed it for Lao Wu to eat every day. It seems that there is not much effect, but it has not deteriorated further, so he has to eat like this every day.

Section Chief Wu took the diet therapy every day and nothing happened. Two years later, Section Chief Wu retired honorably.

After Section Chief Wu retired, he had nothing to do at home, and he would come to the company every now and then. But one day, someone from the Grain Bureau sent him here. It turned out that he mistook the Grain Bureau for a food company. He sat in the office of Deputy Director Liang of the Grain Bureau and smoked, and asked about the pork allocation plan for next month. The old employees of the Grain Bureau knew that he was Section Chief Wu of the Food Company, so they sent him here. Several young people from the Food Company saw that something was wrong, that he had Alzheimer's disease, and hurriedly called the current section chief. This section chief was originally an old employee of the section, but he didn't recognize him. He nodded and shook hands with him, and asked him his name. The section chief saw that he was indeed confused. He hurriedly arranged a small truck for the company to transport goods, and asked two young people to send Old Wu home, and told them: Make sure to hand her over to her old lady.

Mrs. Wu was not surprised. It turned out that similar situations had happened several times. She thought that he was "confused". But she also felt that he should not be allowed to run around alone in the future. Confused people need treatment, so she quickly called her daughter:

"Your dad went to work today, but he went to the wrong place and didn't recognize anyone. What should we do? What should we do?"

"Go see a doctor, Mom, don't worry, I'll check online to see which department this disease can be treated."

That night, my daughter called and said that the county hospital would not treat this disease, and only the Mental Illness Hospital, which was a hospital specializing in mental illness, would treat it.

"No, no." His mother disagreed with taking his father to a mental hospital for treatment.

A week or so after this incident, when Mr. Wu got up in the morning, he suddenly found that his right hand and foot were out of control, and he just rubbed them. His wife came over to take a look and found that something was wrong, and his mouth was crooked. Knowing that something was wrong, she quickly called her daughter. When the daughter heard that it was a stroke, she quickly called an ambulance to send her father to the emergency room of the county hospital, and she also rushed over.

The doctor in the emergency room diagnosed it as a stroke and immediately conducted relevant tests. The MRI showed brain atrophy and multiple lacunar infarctions. The clinical diagnosis was acute cerebral infarction and vascular dementia. Thrombolytic therapy was immediately given and the patient was admitted to the neurology ward for further observation and treatment. After nearly half a month of treatment in the neurology ward, he was finally saved, but he was left with the sequelae of hemiplegia and his dementia seemed to be getting worse. He had no choice but to go home to recuperate in the hope of gradually recovering.

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Originally, he was "fine", only a few indicators were a little high, and he had tried many dietary treatments, but why did he still get such a result? Wu Xiucai's brain was no longer able to think about these problems, but his daughter, Teacher Wu, was determined to figure them out. She said: Many people around him have such problems, and they must not make the same mistakes again.

Teacher Wu looked it up online, but couldn't find a clear answer. He also bought a book to read. However, since he wasn't a medical major, he still didn't understand it very well.

Opportunities are actually ubiquitous. As long as you pay attention to them, they will appear. One day I met a high school classmate who graduated from the journalism department of a university and worked as the deputy director of the interview department of the county radio and television station. One of the classmates did interview work, which had nothing to do with what Teacher Wu wanted to find out. But this classmate said that their station had a task recently, which was to interview some scientific and technological personnel to do some popular science work. The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. Teacher Wu talked about his father's illness, and also said that there are many people suffering from cerebral infarction, and it is even the first cause of death among Chinese people. Knowledge about preventing cerebral infarction should be popularized. The deputy director was struggling to get started, and suddenly he got an inspiration. He went to interview the director of the neurology department of the county hospital and invited Teacher Wu to participate. Of course, Teacher Wu was happy to do so.

One afternoon, Director Shen of the County Hospital's Neurology Department received two visitors in his office.

Teacher Wu wrote down the key points of Director Shen's remarks in her notebook:

Cerebral infarction is similar to myocardial infarction in that the basis of the disease is atherosclerosis of the cerebral blood vessels, and the cause of atherosclerosis is high blood pressure and increased low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (commonly known as bad cholesterol) in the blood. The toxins in smoke from smokers can damage blood vessels and more easily promote atherosclerosis. Once cholesterol deposited in the blood vessel wall, i.e. "plaque", ruptures, it can block the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular vessels, causing myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction. Therefore, to prevent myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction, the first thing to do is to control high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and to quit smoking.

No symptoms does not mean no disease. Although many "standards" are artificially set, they are determined based on a large amount of clinical experience. For example, the diagnostic standard for hypertension is 140/90 mmHg because people with blood pressure higher than this number are prone to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. If it is lower than this number, it is much safer. People with high blood pressure have a high risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. If it can be reduced to below 140/90 through treatment, and preferably below 120/80, the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases will be significantly reduced. Therefore, hypertension, high blood lipids, and high blood sugar without symptoms should be treated, and it is safe only when they are treated to the normal range.

It is true that people are different, but there is always a general rule. The preset standards may vary a little, but they cannot be too outrageous.

Diet therapy is at most an auxiliary treatment and cannot replace regular drug treatment.

At the end of the interview, Mr. Wu specifically asked what "cavity infarction" is. Director Shen said:

The full name of lacunar infarction is lacunar infarction, which is an infarction at the end of an artery with a very small diameter, generally less than 400 microns, in the brain. This kind of infarction is small in scope, and if it is not in an important part of the brain, it generally does not cause symptoms. The brain at the infarction site will be necrotic due to ischemia and hypoxia, so a necrotic lesion with a very small diameter can be seen on the magnetic resonance imaging film, so it is called a lacunar infarction. Lacunar infarction is cerebral infarction. If it recurs repeatedly, it will affect the function of the brain and even cause vascular dementia. Therefore, people who have lacunar infarction must pay attention to preventing cerebral infarction. In addition to controlling blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar, taking aspirin may be of some help.

The explanation given by the head of the neurology department gave the director of the interview department a lot of new knowledge. About two weeks later, the local radio station broadcast and the newspapers published the director's article: Treating diseases without symptoms is to prevent serious diseases.

Working as an extra-staff interviewer helped Teacher Wu resolve many of his doubts, but it was a pity that he learned this knowledge too late.

Author: Yang Binghui