Inducement and prevention of broad bean disease

Bean disease is a type of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. Sichuan people often call broad beans as beans, so it is commonly known as "soybean yellow". This is a common genetic enzyme deficiency disease. About 400 million people around the world are affected, with more men than women. It is characterized by "high in the South and low in the north" in China. It is high in Hainan, Guangdong, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guichuan, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the gene carrier rate in some provinces is as high as 16%.

Most patients do not get sick when there is no inducement. Like normal people, it has no impact on the quality of life and life span, and there is no need for special treatment. However, a small number of patients will have acute hemolytic reactions such as fatigue, jaundice, pallor and low back pain after food, drugs or infection. So what are the causes of the disease and how do patients prevent it at ordinary times?

1. Do not eat broad beans or processed broad beans, such as broad bean vermicelli, strange flavor broad beans, bean paste, soy sauce, etc. Avoid going to the broad bean field during the flowering, fruiting or harvest seasons.

2. It is forbidden to put camphor pills containing naphthalene into the wardrobe to repel insects.

3. Breast fed infants can induce the disease through milk. Mothers with a family history of broad bean disease should pay attention to diet and medication.

Common childrens Feire Kechuan granules contain honeysuckle and Yinzhihuang oral liquid contains Yinzhihuang, which cannot be used in children with G6PD deficiency.

Incentive 3: infectious inducement

Viral hepatitis, influenza, pneumonia, typhoid fever, mumps, etc. can induce the disease.

After infection or within hours or days of exposure to / taking the above food or drugs, fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, yellowish or pale face, yellowish brown or dark red urine and other symptoms are acute hemolytic reactions, and you should go to the hospital immediately!

 

Cindy