Patients with diphtheria are prone to complicating toxic nephropathy

This year the autumn wind rose unusually early. Around the time of the Autumn Wind solar term, Beijing's lowest temperature dropped to 10°C. Most people felt the chill, and some even came down with rhinitis, pharyngitis, colds and other respiratory diseases. Among upper respiratory tract infections, the one to guard against most is diphtheria, because after contracting diphtheria, it easily causes myocarditis, paralysis of peripheral nerve endings, and toxic nephropathy, and can also cause cervical lymphadenitis, perilymphadenitis (shaped like a "bull neck"), otitis media, pneumonia and other complicating diseases.

It has long been proven that diphtheria causing myocarditis, paralysis of peripheral nerve endings, and toxic nephropathy are the three major complications of diphtheria. The kidney disease that diphtheria easily causes is toxic nephritis. Although it is rare, it is far more common than cervical lymphadenitis and the like, so it ranks among the three major complications. After diphtheria causes toxic nephritis, symptoms such as reduced urine output and the presence of white blood cells and casts in the urine appear, but there is generally no hematuria.

Since diphtheria easily triggers the three major complications of myocarditis, paralysis of peripheral nerve endings, and toxic nephropathy, as well as diseases such as pneumonia, it is necessary to actively prevent and treat diphtheria. First, it must be understood that diphtheria is a typical infectious disease. Diphtheria patients should be treated in isolation, and their clothing and the items they use should be disinfected at high temperature. People with weak constitutions had best get the diphtheria vaccine for prevention, and should get the diphtheria vaccine regularly at fixed intervals.

Furthermore, people's understanding of diphtheria is generally very narrow, limited to the throat area. In fact, diphtheria includes not only pharyngeal diphtheria and laryngeal diphtheria, but also nasal diphtheria, cutaneous diphtheria and diphtheria of other sites. Although nasal diphtheria is rare, it mostly occurs in infants and young children and must be taken seriously. Cutaneous diphtheria is mostly triggered by wounds. Diphtheria can occasionally occur in other sites as well, such as the vulva, navel, esophagus, conjunctiva of the eye, and middle ear, so active prevention and treatment are needed.