Treatment and superstition

After the Spring Festival, I returned to my work place from my hometown. My one-year-old and five-month-old boy started coughing and vomiting the next day. Surprised, I immediately made an appointment with the Maternal and Child Health Hospital and rushed to see a doctor in the afternoon. Exclusion, diagnosis, blood test, the result is gastrointestinal cold, prescribed medicine back. On the third day, the cough and vomiting did not relieve, but instead pulled up the stomach. There is no way. Seeing that the child is uncomfortable, we have to go to the Maternal and Child Health Hospital again. The doctor didn't go to work before, so we got a new doctor. The doctor said that it may be that the previous medicine was not good for the stomach and had diarrhea. Brought back a bunch of medicine. We think it should be all right this time.

However, the situation has not improved at all. Instead, I vomited whatever I ate, and I didn't eat for almost a day, and I had a mental breakdown. On the fifth day, his aunt said that she must visit that aunt (a "personal doctor" who can feel the pulse, hang needles, tell fortune and exorcise ghosts). Aunt said that the child hit the "flood wounded". I paid the prescribed amount of red envelopes. Aunt lit three sticks of incense, read them in a low voice for a while, and then daubed them on the child's forehead, hands, feet and back for a while. After that, she told us that our children can't touch water for a day.

On the sixth day, the child was better in the morning, and it was the same in the afternoon. Aunt said that she would go to that aunt to prescribe medicine, so the mother of the child had to take her son to the social health clinic for another blood test, and the diagnosis was also a stomach cold or something. However, the medicine you prescribed can't be eaten at all, and you spit it out after eating it. During the period, my family also asked my uncle and aunt who could exorcise ghosts. They also said that they had done it, but it was too far away to know if it had any effect.

On the seventh day, we went to another hospital. The doctor suggested infusion, because you can't take medicine at all, and it's useless to prescribe more medicine. I thought about it and found that the little guy had been ill for a week. There is nothing to do but give him an injection. On this day, I also learned the method of "fishing people" from Dajiefu. In some areas where Guangdong and Guangxi meet, rural superstitions say that children are easily frightened by ghosts and gods and want to "get their souls back".

After the injection, on the eighth day, the boy began to feel a little energetic and slowly drank some porridge. The frequency of vomiting and pulling decreased gradually, but the cough still did not improve. I wonder whether medication or superstition helps. Because I'm really at a loss.

The phrase "in a hurry to go to the hospital" is the best description for us these days.

First of all, the child is ill and he can't express his feelings now. Adults can only be anxious, not only parents are anxious, but also other relatives will help to make suggestions and make people upset. I believe in doctors, but I can't make up my mind in a hurry, and it's hard to change the opinions of my relatives.

Then there is superstition. People in my hometown, no matter how big or small the disease is, always look for a solution blindly when taking medicine doesn't work. How many times have I seen and experienced such a thing since I was a child? On the contrary, I now find myself more and more superstitious, or approaching in the direction of superstition. Is life unhappy and complaining, or are you looking for meaningless life sustenance?

Even now, science and superstition are inseparable, at least in some rural areas.