How should psittacosis be treated?

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Parrot fever is a disease that I believe we have heard in media reports, but few of us have seen it. Of course, this kind of disease in clinical medicine is also limited to a certain range of a small number of diseases. According to the name of the disease, the disease is a symptom that is mainly infected by parrots and eventually transmitted to humans. The symptoms and treatment of fever, let me tell you.

How should psittacosis be treated?

The clinical manifestations of psittacosis are various, which can start slowly. The body temperature gradually rises in 3-4 days or longer, but most of them are acute onset, high fever, chills, with relatively slow pulse. There are general discomfort, fatigue and weakness, poor appetite. Severe headache and general muscle pain are common complaints, limb and trunk muscle pain can make the patient unable to stand, back and neck muscle spasm and stiffness can be misdiagnosed as meningitis.

Some cases had epistaxis or macular eruption. About 1 week cough, cough mucus or bloody sputum. Severe patients may have dyspnea, cyanosis, irritability, delirium, numbness, coma, etc. Some cases have nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms, if jaundice is involved in the liver, the prognosis is poor.

The temperature of most patients gradually returned to normal in 1-3 weeks. Then the respiratory symptoms gradually relieved to disappear. Thrombophlebitis may occur in convalescence, and sometimes pulmonary infarction may occur as a late complication, which may cause death. In addition, there may be endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis, jaundice hepatitis, suppurative otitis media, acute bronchitis and other complications, but they are rare.

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We can learn the relevant information of this disease from its etiology, clinical symptoms and methods of examination. This provides us with an excellent opportunity to more accurately control the disease. Of course, in life, we must be careful to deal with this disease, especially bird lovers should pay more attention to avoid infection.