White armor

Chapter 503
"Professor Luo, am I... am I... okay?" the patient asked guiltily.

She realized that she had told the truth, but she just said it. Since her best friend was not around, she would feel a little less embarrassed.

"It's hard to say." Luo Hao frowned and looked at the patient.

"Professor Luo, can you tell me about it?"

"Many years ago, foreign doctors began to study this phenomenon. The bun-shaped face is also called facial overfilled syndrome, or Facial Overfilled Syndrome in English.

It is usually caused by multiple or excessive fillings, which leads to excessive swelling of the face, and is often joked to look like steamed buns. "

Luo Hao originally didn't want to do this kind of popular science work. "Manhua" has become a very common term, and many people even use it as a joke.

But the patient in front of him seemed to be unaware of the situation, so Luo Hao still wasted some time explaining it to her.

The patient listened carefully to what Luo Hao said, and then compared it with her own situation... She had guessed it before, and now the answer became increasingly clear.

"The most common areas for facial fat filling are the forehead, apple muscles, cheeks, chin, and near the nasolabial folds. The appearance and location of facial fat filling vary from person to person, depending on factors such as the filler material, filler amount, and individual facial structure characteristics."

"As for you..." Luo Hao pondered.

"Professor Luo, the doctor at the medical beauty hospital told me that everything was fine. She said it was okay." The patient kept repeating, as if clinging to a life-saving straw.

"Oh, penicillin requires a skin test, right?" Luo Hao gave an example, but it was obvious that the patient was confused and didn't understand.

"What I mean is that there is no operation without any problems. Penicillin injections cause death every year, and hospitals don't even recruit medical students with a history of penicillin allergy.

For example, appendectomy is a minor surgery, but every year there are patients who cannot get off the operating table. "

“In theory, hyaluronic acid is generally absorbed.

The component of hyaluronic acid is hyaluronic acid, which can moisturize, remove wrinkles and shape the skin. After hyaluronic acid is injected into the skin, it is generally absorbed and utilized by the human body through metabolism. However, the speed of absorption is related to the molecules of hyaluronic acid used. "

“Most hyaluronic acid will be absorbed within a certain period of time, but there are also specific types of hyaluronic acid.

Generally, small and medium molecule hyaluronic acid can replenish skin moisture and remove facial wrinkles. It has a softer texture and may be absorbed by the body relatively quickly, and can last for about 6 to 12 months.

Large-molecule hyaluronic acid can play a very good role in shaping and supporting. It is generally absorbed more slowly and lasts longer, basically lasting for more than 12 months. "

"I use imported hyaluronic acid! It's imported!!" The patient has believed Luo Hao's words and realized her own problem, but because of this, she refuted frantically and found all kinds of reasons to refute.

"90% of the world's hyaluronic acid is produced in Dongshan. If it is produced by a large Dongshan manufacturer, it is fine. It can be said to be the best in the world. It doesn't matter if it is exported and sold domestically, but if it is produced by a small workshop abroad, it will be terrible."

This time, Luo Hao did not scare the patient, but told the truth.

The muscles on the patient's swollen face kept twitching, as if the hyaluronic acid was about to be thrown out in the next second.

Whenever Luo Hao hears the word hyaluronic acid, he thinks of Ma Zhuang. That guy even had a pulmonary embolism, but he was still telling everyone he met in the emergency room how majestic and strong he was.

In fact, in a sense, the patient in front of him is the same as Ma Zhuang.

It’s just that the person in front of him doesn’t want to tell others that all her beauty is due to her natural beauty, while Ma Zhuang’s focus is on the effect.

There are so many different things.

The patient squatted down, covering his face and crying.

"Don't cry yet. You have to avoid worse effects caused by emotional fluctuations." Luo Hao advised helplessly, "Which medical beauty institution is it? You can ask them about the batch of hyaluronic acid they injected. I can see whether it is large-molecule hyaluronic acid or small-molecule hyaluronic acid."

"Wow, wow, I'm gone and the company is gone." The patient cried sadly.

Depend on!
Luo Hao cursed in his heart.

Gone?

She is so bold to use this kind of small makeshift team. She dares to believe and slap this organization in the face when they come up with a drug that they don't know the details of.

Medicine is only one aspect.

The doctor's skill level is also important.

Luo Hao guessed that the medical beauty institution that suddenly disappeared didn't even have a business license, and the people who gave the injections didn't have a medical license or anything like that.

They do not control the level and dosage of filling according to the individual facial conditions of the patients.

Simply filling the sunken areas, or injecting too little or too much at a single time will result in disproportionate proportions, swelling, and stiffness.

Medical beauty seems simple, and some brave people even buy medicine and do it themselves at home.

It’s okay if nothing happens, but if something happens it’s a big deal.

Luo Hao sighed, "Let's check the situation first."

"Wow, wow, wow, I'm disfigured. It's over. It's over."

"Let me do an MRI and take a look at the situation, and then we'll say something, okay?" Luo Hao asked gently.

But no matter what Luo Hao said, the patient ignored him and just kept crying.

Luo Hao was helpless and could only call Sister Gao over and ask her to do an MRI to check the situation.

Ms. Gao was shocked. What kind of disease requires an MRI?

And how do you download the entries for facial MRI?
Luo Hao didn't know either, so he asked Gao to communicate with the MRI room herself. Luo Hao didn't want to get involved in the specific matters.

Some diseases can be cured, while some cannot.

The person in front of me obviously hasn't told me a lot of things, so it's reasonable for me to give Sister Gao some face and help with a diagnosis.

No matter how much he participated, Luo Hao was afraid of being covered in blood.

After all, the patient has no idea what is being injected into his face, whether it is a large molecule, a small molecule, or a counterfeit or inferior product.

It would be bad if the patient holds a grudge against me.

It sounds ridiculous, but since medical beauty institutions have disappeared, there is a high probability that patients will direct their anger at the doctors who diagnosed them.

In short, this patient is a big trouble and Luo Hao doesn't want to provoke him.

"Sister Gao, if there's nothing else, I'll leave first." Luo Hao greeted her politely, "When the film is finished, give me a call. I'll watch it on my phone."

"Okay, thank you Professor Luo." Nurse Gao admired Luo Hao very much.

She knew exactly what kind of person her best friend was. She knew from the situation that Professor Luo had seen the truth and had explained it to her, so her best friend couldn't bear it and burst into tears.

Luo Hao turned around and went back to the locker room to change clothes. Just as he took off the top of his isolation suit, he heard chaotic shouting outside the door.

It’s Miss Gao!
She was calling for the head nurse.

what happened?
Luo Hao was stunned for a moment, but immediately changed his clothes and walked out.

The AI-assisted diagnosis flashes, and the diagnosis of hypoglycemia is clearly visible.

Why did he have hypoglycemia again? Luo Hao was quite helpless.

However, the patient has a big face but is extremely thin, which seems to suggest something.

Could it be that they lost too much weight? Luo Hao really couldn't understand what these people were thinking.

I have no interest in sports, but I am determined to harm my body. Don't I know which is more and which is less?

When it comes to weight loss, Luo Hao even thinks that semaglutide is not effective because the side effects are a bit too severe.

As for other unconventional ways of losing weight, Luo Hao despised them even more.

"Ms. Gao, go get the blood glucose meter and let them test their blood sugar, 50ml!" Luo Hao helped Ms. Gao support the patient lying on the ground and immediately gave medical advice.

In the operating room, Luo Hao has the final say, and his authority now surpasses Shen Ziyi's.

This is still within the radiation range of the operating room. Without saying a word, Sister Gao strode back to get the blood glucose meter and asked someone to prepare high sugar levels.

"I told you I couldn't do a fluid fast. The app said it was good, so I used it desperately. Now I have hypoglycemia!"

Sister Gao chattered on as she deftly drew a drop of blood.

Blood sugar level is 1.1mmol/l, which is already extremely low.

The patient began to twitch, cold sweat broke out all over his body, and at the same time, a gurgling sound of phlegm came from his throat.

"Prepare the suction machine! Flatbed cart!!" Luo Hao shouted loudly.

The nurses in the operating room had just finished the operation and when they heard Luo Hao's voice, they all rushed out to help.

A 50ml tube of 50% glucose is injected, and the effect is immediate.

The patient's condition stopped deteriorating, and less than a minute later, she took a long breath and slowly opened her eyes.

There was confusion in his eyes, as if it was all a dream.

Luo Hao has seen patients with hypoglycemia wake up and knows that this is a normal reaction. It will take some time for the body's blood sugar to recover, but that is not a problem.

"She has been losing weight recently and her eating habits are irregular?" Luo Hao asked.

"She's been on a fluid break lately."

Luo Hao remembered that Gao Jie had mentioned the term "liquid-break". After thinking for a while, he asked, "It's a topic that has millions of people discussing on a certain app, something like losing 3 pounds in 10 days?"

"Well, I told her that one bottle of Oriental Leaves a day is not enough, but she insisted on doing it this way. Tell me, tell me, this is so harmful to your health." Sister Gao kept complaining in a low voice.

"What is fluid interruption?" Technician No. 66 came over to watch the fun, and when he saw that the patient was out of danger, he asked.

"It means that you only consume liquids or foods that were liquid before processing for a period of time, and your daily calorie intake does not exceed 1200 calories."

"Liquid fasting means drinking liquids, fasting? So simple and straightforward?" Technician No. 66 sighed, "I once met a foot-washing girl..."

Having said that, he forced himself to hold back what he was going to say next.

Luo Hao didn't say anything. Technician No. 66 liked it. The revolving door was changed into a rolling door. From what the robot said, it seemed that Lao Liu had a lot of expenses recently. Forget it. Luo Hao really couldn't care less about Lao Liu's trivial matters.

If he likes it, he can go and have fun. He just hopes that one day he won’t have to ask Director Feng to go to the police station to pick someone up.

"Professor Luo, please listen carefully and make sure he doesn't have a cardiac arrest." Nurse Gao was still a little worried.

But it was just a worry, not to the extent of moving out the ECG monitor.

In the eyes of almost everyone, manpower is cheaper than machines, even the young Luo Hao.

Luo Hao reached out and took out a stethoscope from his white coat pocket.

Sister Gao pulled the patient's clothes up, and Luo Hao stuffed the stethoscope in.

Originally, Luo Hao just wanted to hear if his heart rate was too fast to be accepted, but the moment he put the stethoscope on it, Luo Hao felt that...

It seems like he is going to die suddenly.

As the sound of Sanskrit rang in his ears, Luo Hao wondered, shouldn't the sound in his ears when he was dying be the national anthem or the Internationale? How could it be Sanskrit?

Have you been so busy lately that you are hallucinating?

It seems so. I went to Changnan yesterday. The action of rescuing the platform looked simple, but at that time I directly activated the ultimate skill, or even double activated it, which had a certain impact on my body.

Later, when I was picking out parasites for my child, I also used Calm and Furious.

Is it a side effect of Calm and Rage? When using it, they didn't tell me what the consequences were. In the end, using the racial talent Calm and Rage multiple times led to sudden death. For a full 3 seconds, Luo Hao felt someone pushing him.

Seeing that Luo Hao was motionless, Technician No. 66 gently touched Luo Hao and asked, "Professor Luo, how are you?"

“……” Luo Hao moved his body.

No shit.

What about auditory hallucinations?

Sister Gao didn't expect this either, but when she saw Luo Hao in a daze for a few seconds, she remembered something.

"Professor Luo, I'm sorry."

"Ah? What's wrong?" Luo Hao asked.

"My best friend wears a Buddhist amulet that plays Buddhist scriptures 24 hours a day. The sound is relatively low. Did you hear anything when you were listening to the stethoscope just now?"

fall!
Luo Hao almost got angry.

Luo Hao, who is usually good-tempered, almost got angry.

What is this!

On one hand, she injected countless hyaluronic acids of unknown origin into her face, on the other hand, she had to cut off her blood sugar and even suffered from hypoglycemia. Finally, she wore a Buddha amulet which gave herself the illusion of sudden death.

fall!
fall!!

But Luo Hao finally endured it and asked Sister Gao to move out the ECG monitor and lie down in the rest area for a while.

"If anything happens, send him to the emergency room." Luo Hao said, turned around and left.

Miss Gao was speechless.

After Luo Hao left, Technician No. 66 asked quietly, "Sister Gao, Professor Luo seems to be angry. If it doesn't work, be quiet for a while and go talk to Professor Luo."

"It seems so. Sigh. My best friend never tells the truth when we meet. Even I didn't know she went for cosmetic surgery. From what Professor Luo said, it seems that she had a lot of injections on her face and is now disfigured."

"Tsk tsk." Technician No. 66 clicked his tongue twice and took a closer look. "They say it can be absorbed, but who knows. I heard that Marie Curie discovered radioactive elements and her hands were white. At that time, the aristocratic circle said that radioactive elements can whiten the skin."

"..."

"..."

The nurses in the catheterization room were silent.

I think something similar has happened before, and it happened to me.

Hypoglycemia is like a gust of wind, it comes quickly and goes quickly. Gao's best friend woke up quickly, slept for another hour, and returned to normal.

During this period, Ms. Gao contacted the MRI department for assistance, and took advantage of the time before get off work to ask the doctor in the MRI room to add an MRI machine.

The person was sent in, and Sister Gao sat in the operating room waiting.

She felt a little uneasy, wondering how many more things her careless best friend had hidden.

As the MRI machine was turned on, she began to regret that this matter should be left to her boyfriends and had nothing to do with her.

"Ms. Gao, haven't you taken all the metal objects off? Why are you still like this?" asked the doctor.

"Alas, she kept the cosmetic surgery a secret from me, and I don't know if she's hiding anything in her body."

At this point, the MRI doctor gossiped, "My classmate, who works in the south, did an MRI on someone the day before yesterday. He said that the person used a metal anal plug, and no one knew what it was for. After it went in, it flew out all of a sudden, and the intestines ruptured, and blood spurted all over the room."

"..." Sister Gao's hands began to tremble. She was really afraid of seeing a bloody scene.

But it seemed that nothing was wrong. Through the leaded glass, Sister Gao looked at her best friend lying obediently inside, and her heart calmed down a little.

"People nowadays really dare to use all kinds of messed up things, such as metal anal plugs, without even telling the doctor. Tell me, isn't this life-threatening? What I fear most is that the patient's family will sue me. The signatures before the examination and video surveillance are not valid. If something goes wrong, it's the doctor's fault."

The MRI doctor complained.

"So how are your classmates doing now?"

"He's suspended for reflection." The MRI doctor sighed, "Ms. Gao, you can't have every patient who comes for an examination...checking the anal plug is really too much. If someone insists on opening it up when I go for an MRI, I'll definitely get angry.

During the epidemic, the initial examinations were a mess. A buddy and his friend came back from other places and were quarantined. Everyone else had nasal and throat swabs, but he only had an anal swab.

Later, this guy didn’t understand and posted a message on WeChat Moments asking what was going on, and everyone forwarded it.”

His speech had started to become illogical. One second he was standing from the doctor's perspective, and the next second he was standing from the patient's perspective out of empathy. Later he even talked about gossip from a few years ago.

This kind of emergency caused by low medical compliance of a few individuals cannot represent all the cases. Both the MRI doctor and Ms. Gao know that they are just nagging and gossiping.

After 20 minutes, the inspection was completed.

"Ms. Gao, this is my first time to do facial MRI on a patient. Our extraoral skills are average, and we rarely do this type of examination." After finishing the MRI, the doctor began to read the film.

As he watched, he stopped talking.

"What's going on?" Ms. Gao couldn't understand the MRI, so she asked nervously.

"Sister, look." The MRI doctor was operating the examination image and the mouse in his hand fell on a position.

There is an obvious difference there. If Ms. Gao hadn't known that the patient had injected hyaluronic acid, she would have suspected that it was some foreign body.

"This should be the hyaluronic acid. I feel like the size is wrong. Not only is it not absorbed, but the size is a bit too big."

"Well, here too. Here, here, here..."

The MRI doctor kept clicking his mouse.

"Here, the green area is the hyaluronic acid filling area. Look, if something is wrong, go ask your bestie how many injections of hyaluronic acid she got. Don't hide it from the doctor. Looking at the film, a lot of hyaluronic acid was injected."

"it is good."

Soon, Sister Gao came back.

"They said she had 6 injections in six years." When Ms. Gao said this, she found it ridiculous. Her best friend had really kept it a secret from her.

“Such a big bottle.”

As she spoke, Sister Gao gestured.

The MRI doctor took a look and said, "The volume is 1 cubic centimeter."

"How come you look so familiar?" Miss Gao was a little surprised.

"Well, I usually work in the medical beauty department, doing MRIs for people to earn some money. The little money our hospital pays is just enough to keep me from starving. If beef wasn't cheap this year, I don't think I would even be able to eat a bite of beef."

Doctors in the MRI room are talking nonsense. They earn a lot from performance bonuses. If they can't finish the work during the day, they work overtime. The monthly performance bonus is at least 10,000 yuan, and sometimes it can reach 20,000 or 30,000 yuan.

It's just working until the early morning every day and exchanging your body for money.

"22 needles, that's 22 cubic centimeters. Calculating the green range, it should be around 43 cubic centimeters."

"!!!" Miss Gao was stunned, "How can there be more?"

"Hyaluronic acid fillers are hydrophilic. I've seen them in medical aesthetics, but your bestie's is indeed very rare. This is almost double the amount."

"Can it be cured?" Miss Gao asked anxiously.

"It's difficult. It basically absorbs by itself. How do you take out hyaluronic acid? Pull it out with a syringe? That's a joke."

Sister Gao felt a sense of powerlessness.

Maybe Professor Luo has a solution.

"The video has been uploaded, right?" asked Ms. Gao.

"You can see it on the cloud platform when you're done."

Miss Gao took out her cell phone and called Luo Hao.

"Professor Luo, the MRI is out. Could you please take a look?"

Soon, Luo Hao's voice was heard, and he said a few words to Sister Gao.

The expression on Miss Gao's face darkened. It seemed that Luo Hao was helpless.

Disfigurement is the kind that has already been destroyed and cannot be reversed. But the exact extent of the damage depends on one's physical condition.

If you can absorb as much as possible, the degree of steaming can be reduced.

Professor Ke Luo said implicitly that if the body could absorb hyaluronic acid, it would have been absorbed long ago and there was no need to wait until now.

The probability of recovery is very poor.

Finally, Professor Luo also reminded us to pay attention to patient safety and sort out their emotions.

Sister Gao knew very well what the hidden meaning of this statement was.

Alas, why bother?

……

……

Luo Hao hung up the phone.

A bunch of people were talking and having a great time.

If Shen Zizai really wants to do something, he is very capable of taking action.

We talked about working together with the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine on scientific research early in the morning. In the evening, we invited Director Qin of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine to come over for dinner, which was considered a mobilization meeting.

Seeing Luo Hao finished the call, Shen Zizai asked, "Xiao Luo, what's wrong?"

Luo Hao told the story again.

"Fuck, 22 injections of hyaluronic acid? He's going to die!" Director Qin of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department was surprised.

"Director Qin, have you seen similar patients?" Luo Hao asked.

"I have seen people with facial paralysis come for acupuncture. Medical beauty has become popular recently, and the number of patients has increased over the past few years." Director Qin of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine said, "But there is a foreign body inside, which is different from facial paralysis caused by stroke."

"Can it be cured?"

"It can't be cured, at most it can provide some relief. I also studied ancient books and later found that there was no hyaluronic acid in ancient times, so how could it be mentioned in ancient books?"

"Hahaha." Everyone laughed.

Indeed, asking our ancestors about this matter is almost like asking a blind person.

“What about this patient?”

"It's just a cold dish." Luo Hao sighed, "Many celebrities have had their reputations ruined, and some have had their faces shrunk. This is exactly what I mean. Their faces are swollen like big steamed buns. The term "steamed bun" is really very appropriate."

"Xiao Luo, Xiao Luo, let's not talk about this. Anyway, neither your Western medicine can cure it, nor can our Chinese medicine. Let me ask you something. Some time ago, did you use acupuncture to treat a case of cataract in Guang'anmen?"

(End of this chapter)