Male patient P.V.K.(45 years old, living in Ha Khanh ward, Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province) was hospitalized in a state of fatigue, high fever lasted for many days.

According to the patient, the storm No. 3 caused the accommodation of the patient to be flooded with dirty mud and muddy, so they had to clean the house cleaning, the area of ​​life many days ago.After that, the patient started to appear high fever, fatigue, and drinking fever without improvement, so he was hospitalized for treatment.

The test results show that patients with bacterial infections caused by Burkholderia Pseudomallei (Whitmore).The patient was monitored and treated by doctors actively at the Department of Tropical Diseases.Currently, the patient's health is stable, has cut the fever and less tired.

At the Department of Tropical Diseases, Quang Ninh General Hospital is currently treating in some cases of patients with long -term high fever symptoms, tissue, blood, gastrointestinal infections, urinary tract ...

The legs are swollen, tissue infection with high fever of the patient.

As other cases: Patient T.Q.T.(49 years old, living in Ha Lam ward, Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province) was hospitalized with an open left leg wound, swollen pain, edema showing signs of pus accompanied by high fever.Doctors diagnose patients with left leg inflammatory tissue, monitoring blood infections.

According to the sharing, the patient fell into the branches and broken, causing the label, then had a fever, the cold spines and the swelling of the leg.After 1 week of active treatment with the appropriate regimen, the patient has cut the fever, the wound is gradually recovering and early discharge in the next few days.

Assessing the number of infections hospitalized in recent years, especially after floods, BSCKII.Luong Xuan Kien - Head of Tropical Diseases Department said: After the rain, countless microorganisms, garbage, waste ... According to the water flooding in many places, causing pollution of water sources, food sources, increasingCases of infection and infection in the community.Bacteria can cause respiratory diseases or exposure to polluted environment, especially bacteria that exist in dirty mud environment, the higher the risk of infection for people with scratches on the skin..When infected with bacteria, patients have acute events with manifestations: high fever, tissue infection, urinary, digestive, blood infection ...Time, positive will be prone to complications and can lead to death.

Many people were hospitalized for treatment in high fever, infection being treated in the Department of Tropical Diseases

In order to prevent the risk of infections after floods, doctors recommend that people need personal hygiene daily, wash their hands with soap;Do not be in direct contact with soil, dirty water stagnates for a long time, especially when skin wounds, scratches bleeding;Implementation of houses and environments with protective means immediately after the water recedes, sanitizing the surface with disinfectant solutions.Perform cooking and drinking, avoiding unsanitary foods, polluted water sources, while increasing nutritional supplements to improve the immune system.

When there is an abnormal manifestation such as prolonged high fever, fatigue, anorexia, swelling of some positions on the body or nausea, vomiting, digestive disorders, loose stools ... need to go to the hospital to be examined for examinationand timely treatment.