Chapter 344: Chapter 344 Mushroom Poisoning?
"Faced with such a troublesome condition, why didn’t you send him to the local hospital? Can your little village health clinic really handle these matters?"
"You’ve got it wrong. Even if I sent them to the hospital, there wouldn’t be any solution. Right now, the only one who might be able to save them is probably myself."
"What about the matter I mentioned to you? Have you given it any thought?"
"Jia Xin, I’ve already told you, I never think about those things, because my roots are in the village. So, the village is my natural support. That’s why it’s impossible for me to leave this place."
"I’ve already told you, if you don’t leave the village now, there won’t be much good development left for you. Besides, the world outside is vast. Don’t you think you should go out and strive for something, take a look around?"
"Doctor Liu, Doctor Liu."
Just at this moment, he suddenly saw Er Dan running over,
When Liu Zheng saw him, he just furrowed his brow, as he noticed something off about his complexion: half of his face was a kind of dark green color.
"What’s happened to you? What did you eat to turn your face this color?"
He asked anxiously and then touched him, feeling that half of his face indeed seemed very hot.
"Doctor Liu, I—I don’t know what’s wrong. I, I just picked some mushrooms and then, after eating them last night, I woke up like this in the morning."
"Picked some mushrooms? What kind of mushrooms? Where did you pick them from, the mountains?"
"Yes, from the mountains. And I’ve picked these mushrooms before with no issues. Besides, many people in our village pick mushrooms from there. After it rains, a lot sprout up, and they’re all non-toxic."
"Let’s not talk about that now. Hurry up and come inside with me. And Jia Xin, I’m busy now, I can’t take care of you. Do as you please."
For Liu Zheng, this had become commonplace. No matter how important the issue, he would set it aside and devote himself fully to the patients, so Liu Jiaxin had long since stopped being surprised by it.
Watching Liu Zheng immerse himself in his work again, Liu Jiaxin simply shook her head slightly and then turned and left the place.
Liu Zheng first conducted a careful examination. In fact, he had never encountered such a poisoning case before.
He had some antidotes prepared, but each of them was supposed to be used for specific symptoms, and the key issue here seemed different.
With no other option, he had to use a medicine with mild effects, including a mild detoxification effect, but at least it wouldn’t harm the human body, to temporarily control the progress of the condition. He was worried that the poison would continue to spread through the body.
"I’m going to use some IV needles now to block your major veins. Only by doing that can we slow down your blood flow. This way, the toxins won’t circulate through the body. However, as for actually detoxifying, I’m not sure I can manage that right now because I don’t know the source of the poison."
"Doctor Liu, I—I’m not going to die, am I?"
"Looking at the situation, you shouldn’t. But even if it’s serious, it would likely just be a kind of chronic virus."
"Doctor Liu, Doctor Liu."
At this moment, another villager ran in. When he saw the patient already in there, the two of them exchanged a shocked look, speechless, because now they were both in the same condition, with half of their faces completely discolored.
"No need to say it, you ate the mushrooms from the mountain foot near the village entrance, didn’t you?"
"Yes, exactly! My wife picked some yesterday when she passed by, thinking the harvest season had come. So, she brought some back and made mushroom soup last night."
"Fine, then your symptoms are pretty much the same as his. Just sit here for now; I’ll treat both of you together, temporarily stopping the poison from spreading. Later, I’ll try to figure out the source of the poison and then decide how to treat you."
"Doctor Liu, you—you’ve got to save us. I don’t want to lose my life over something like this."
"It won’t come to that. Tell me, besides feeling numbness and heat on half of your face, do you have any other symptoms, including throughout your body?"
"I’m feeling a bit dizzy."
"I’m not dizzy, but I feel like my left side is a bit weak, considerably weaker than my right hand was before."
"It’s possible that the poison is moving at different speeds in your bodies, and since each person’s constitution is different, you may exhibit different symptoms under poisoning. This is also normal. Alright, I’ve arranged the IV needles for you. Don’t move for now. Don’t do anything within this hour and just wait patiently here. I need to go up the mountain immediately to find the source of the poison."
"Doctor Liu, I think there’s no need for you to search anymore. Besides, I picked a lot of mushrooms last time, and there doesn’t seem to be much left over there. My family still has some; you needn’t go there now. I’ll just call my wife and have her bring you some."
"That would be great. Hurry up then; I need to understand all this before I can treat you properly."
After saying that, he took out his phone. It only took a few minutes—after all, the village wasn’t big—but in such an emergency situation, no one dared to delay.
"Doctor Liu, take a look, these, these are the mushrooms from yesterday. They seem the same as before. I’ve picked them like this in the past, and there was never any problem when cooking with them."
This woman ran to him, out of breath. Doctor Liu looked down, only to find that her complexion was quite normal, apparently unaffected.
"That’s not right. Did you eat them too? Why aren’t you affected then?"
"Doctor Liu, it’s quite a coincidence that after I finished cooking last night, I went out to my parents’ home. I didn’t eat at all, so when I returned, he had already eaten almost everything. When I came back, I didn’t get to eat much; essentially all I had was leftovers."
