Anti-epidemic pioneer

Chapter 33 Role Models

"Am I going to die?"

Li Renxin was lying on the hospital bed, staring blankly at the bag of liquid medicine hanging on the pillar next to him, and asked himself in his heart for no reason.

Lying on the hospital bed for a long time, when he was alone, Li Renxin even felt that all his senses had gained an incredible enhancement.

For example, now, he seems to be able to clearly sense that the medicinal liquid is slowly entering his body bit by bit through the infusion tube and needle.

If the new crown virus is a big hand that wants to press the fast-forward button of his life, and wants Li Renxin's life to be exhausted in a short period of time, then the infusions and medicines he took are equivalent to another The hand that wants to press the pause button hopes to buy more time for Li Renxin's own immune system, so that the immune cells in his body can eliminate the virus.

Li Renxin himself is an expert in this field, and no one knows better than him the process of infection and victory over the new crown virus.

This time, the new coronavirus confuses the recognition protein in mucosal cells through angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, so as to use the mucous membranes distributed in the lips, nasal cavity, eyes and other parts to enter people's bodies and infect patients.

After that, the new coronavirus will release the RNA of the virus into the cells, use the ribose in the cells to replicate the virus in large quantities, and continuously transport the virus out of the cells to continue to infect other cells in the patient's body.

This process may be long or short, and at this time, the patient's body will not show any obvious reaction, which is the so-called incubation period of the disease.

When the virus develops and grows in the patient's body, it will spread along the mucous membranes of the mouth and nose, first the throat, trachea and bronchi, and finally begin to erode and attack the patient's lungs!

In this process, the body's immune system will also be stimulated and start a game with the virus.

The first to join the battle are white blood cells, such as natural killer cells, monocytes, dendritic cells, macrophages and other immune cells, which will begin to work hard to kill the virus to protect the safety of patients themselves.

During this process, due to the death of a large number of viruses and immune cells in the nasal cavity and throat, it will cause symptoms of nasal congestion and sore throat.

At this time, the human body will also clean up the "corpses" of these viruses and cells out of the body through coughing and sneezing.

At the same time, the brain will also cooperate with the instructions to control all cells, reduce the activity of cells, and then increase the temperature of the human body, so that the temperature is no longer suitable for the activity of the new coronavirus, and at the same time secrete tissue fluid, creating an environment conducive to white blood cells to exert their combat effectiveness. .

Along with these instructions from the brain, the patient will experience body aches, listlessness, high fever, and redness and swelling in some places.

Therefore, in fact, when you are sick, you will have a fever and swelling in some places. Although people will feel very uncomfortable, this is actually a good phenomenon, because it proves that your body’s immune system is doing its best to fight against the virus. Set fire to eliminate the virus!

Ordinary viruses can no longer resist at this time, and will be directly eliminated by the body's immune system.

But the new coronavirus is far more difficult than this, because it has a special protein that can make the immune system make a wrong judgment and attack healthy cells in the human body as a virus!

It is precisely because of this that those patients who already suffer from heart disease, diabetes and other diseases will eventually cause the failure of other organs due to the wrong attack of their own immune system, and thus die.

This is also the kind of situation that Li Renxin and the others mentioned when Huang Zhiguang analyzed the condition with them when they first came to Wuhan.

In addition, there is a very dangerous situation, that is, due to the overreaction of the human immune system, a cytokine storm will be formed.

This overexcitement of immune cells will also cause immune cells to frantically attack the patient's lung cells when they are misled by the new coronavirus!

Under the attack of autoimmune cells, it will lead to fibrosis of the lungs, which will make the lungs unable to inflate and breathe, and eventually the patient will die of suffocation.

It is probably because of this reason that those critically ill patients deteriorated into critically ill patients, and they drifted to the brink of death under the attack of the cytokine storm.

Li Renxin's physical condition itself is not bad, but what he is most worried about now is that he will fall under the cytokine storm in his body just like the severe and critically ill patients he has taken over in the past.

Speaking of it, from mild to moderate, then from moderate to severe, and finally from moderate to critical, there are many stages in the middle, but as the saying goes, it is called a disease that comes like a mountain. If it breaks out However, it is only a matter of time from mild to severe to critical.

Li Renxin felt his hot body, and based on his experience, he already had a rough judgment on his situation in his heart.

The turning point of the disease has only been in the past two days.

If he can make it through, then he should be fine.

And if he can't pass this level, then what awaits him ahead is endless darkness.

What should I do if I can't make it through?

For a moment, Li Renxin was full of thoughts.

He couldn't let go of his beloved wife.

He can't let go of his beloved daughter who hasn't gone to college yet.

He still can't let go of his elderly parents.

Just like what Li Renxin said when chatting with Huang Zhiguang before, he cherishes his life because he has too many concerns that he still can't let go of.

But sometimes, fate is like a naughty boy who loves to joke around with others.

It happened that Li Renxin was infected with the new crown virus, and it happened that he had started to deteriorate from mild to severe.

With his eyes closed, all kinds of people and things he experienced in this life flashed through Li Renxin's mind one by one like a marquee.

In a daze, he thought of Zhou Wen again inexplicably.

The writer's patient who deteriorated from severe to critical, and finally improved, and has now left the intubated ventilator and ECMO system.

That young man who has a strong desire to survive, but is calm in the face of death.

Although he didn't have a sword in his hand, he had the same blood as the characters in his works. He frankly said that if he died, he would donate his body to experts for research.

When death might be close at hand, Li Renxin suddenly discovered that Zhou Wen was really a good role model.

Thinking of this, Li Renxin's troubled heart suddenly calmed down gradually.

Taking out the phone from under the pillow, Li Renxin opened the mailbox and began to write an email to his wife Hong Qiaoyin...