Diphtheria symptom treatment?

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Diphtheria is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by diphtheria bacilli. It is characterized by fever, suffocation, hoarseness, barking cough, white pseudomembrane in pharynx, tonsil and surrounding tissues. Serious systemic poisoning symptoms are obvious, can be complicated with myocarditis and peripheral nerve paralysis. Diphtheria symptom treatment? Let's talk about it

Diphtheria symptom treatment?

Penicillin is often used. It takes 7-10 days until the symptoms disappear and the culture of diphtheria turns negative. For those who are allergic to penicillin or whose culture is still positive after one week of application of penicillin, erythromycin can be given orally or intravenously four times for the same course.

Antitoxins can neutralize free toxins, but not bound toxins. In the early 3 days of the course of disease, the effect is better, and then the effect is significantly reduced. The dose depends on the scope, location and treatment time of pseudomembrane.

For patients with mild laryngeal obstruction, it is necessary to closely observe the development of the disease and be ready for tracheotomy at any time. When dyspnea is serious and three concave signs appear, tracheotomy should be performed immediately, and the pseudomembrane should be removed at the incision, or trypsin or chymotrypsin should be dropped to dissolve the pseudomembrane.

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It is suggested that patients should stay in bed as much as possible during the treatment to help the recovery of body vitality. In addition, patients can take more vitamins and easier to digest food in their daily diet.