Symptoms of h7n9 avian influenza?

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H7n9 avian influenza is a new type of avian influenza. In Shanghai, I saw many people wearing masks because h7n9 was so terrible that they might even die. I thought it was just like flu like symptoms. Later, I learned that serious patients developed rapidly, most of them had body temperature above 39 and had difficulty breathing, which led to death. I'd like to share with you my experience of h7n9 avian influenza

Symptoms of h7n9 avian influenza?

First of all, if people are infected with h7n9 avian influenza, the incubation period will not exceed 7 days. The general performance of patients with influenza like symptoms, such as fever, cough, can be accompanied by headache, general discomfort and other symptoms. Severe patients' condition will develop rapidly, showing severe pneumonia, dyspnea, and hemoptysis; Acute respiratory distress syndrome, disturbance of consciousness and so on can be rapidly developed, so we should grasp these characteristics to identify the influenza.

Then we should know that the onset of this influenza is acute. In the blood routine examination of patients, the total number of white blood cells of patients is generally not high or low. Most severe patients will have the total number of white blood cells and lymphopenia, and thrombocytopenia. So this is another important aspect of the clinical manifestations of this kind of influenza.

Finally, from a scientific point of view, patients in the chest imaging examination found that the patient's lung appeared sheet image. Severe patients with disease progression is very rapid, will present the image of lung consolidation, can be combined with a small amount of pleural effusion. Therefore, it is necessary to have a comprehensive examination to monitor the development of the disease.

matters needing attention

We should pay attention to the monitoring and treatment of lung and other organ function of patients; Timely control of the development of the disease, we should do a good job in prevention and timely treatment of various complications, this is responsible for life.