The broken mercury thermometer pierced the finger, and more than a month later

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan client August 9th. The man accidentally crushed the thermometer, and the glass stained with mercury pierced the skin's skin. One month later, the man's injury was swollen and painful. I went to the hospital for examination and found that mercury had already entered the body.

In mid -June, Mr. Zhou, 36, was measured at home, and accidentally shattered the thermometer of the mercury when the temperature meter was shaken. At that time, he was pierced by the broken glass thumb, leaving a small wound that looked inconspicuous. Mr. Zhou said that he saw that the wound was very small, and he didn't take it at heart. After simply squeezing the wound, he didn't deal with it. Then he cleared the glass and mercury on the floor.

However, more than 20 days later, Mr. Zhou found that the place where the injured was still swollen and unbearable, and then went to a nearby hospital for examination. X -ray shows that Mr. Zhou's left thumb has a wide range of stars, which is widely scattered, suspected to be mercury remaining in the soft tissue of the hand. The doctor suggested that Mr. Zhou immediately went to the orthopedic specialist to do further treatment. However, Mr. Zhou, who was busy with work, did not pay much attention to it, and delayed more than 10 days. After the symptoms worsened, he came to Wuhan Fourth Hospital for treatment.

The original wounds and surroundings see a large -white soft tissue that is gray -white.

After the hospital's hand surgery, Dr. Wu Qipeng, asked Mr. Zhou in detail and checked the image data, and confirmed that the dense shadow that stayed in his left thumb was the mercury in the crushing thermometer at the time. The team of hand surgeons tried to remove mercury for it. After anesthesia of the armband, the doctor cut off Mr. Zhou's affected area, but there was no mercury visible to the naked eye. It was just a soft -white tissue showing a large transgender necrosis around the original wounds and surroundings.

Dr. Wu Qipeng introduced that mercury is a liquid metal. The surgery cannot be clearly clear like a shaped solid. It penetrates and spreads into the tissue, causing tissue necrosis. Although the film can be seen, it cannot be distinguished by the naked eye. In the end, doctors can only adopt the method of removing the necrotic tissue of the affected area. In the case of trying not to affect the thumb function, they will maximize the mercury with the necrotic tissue. Fortunately, Mr. Zhou's finger movement function was preserved after surgery, and no other signs of mercury poisoning were found in further inspection.

Mercury is a mercury, commonly known as a metal that is harmful to the human body, which will cause multiple enzymes with important biological activity in the human body to be suppressed or destroyed. Excessive inhalation of mercury can cause mercury poisoning, which is very harmful to the human body. According to Director Xing Danmou of the Hand Surgery of the Academy, patients with mercury clinically swallowed mercury are more common, and it is rare that Mr. Zhou's mercury is pierced into the skin. Citizen friends in daily life are most likely to contact mercury thermometers. Once the thermometer is broken, the mercury is exposed to the air, and it is easy to volatilize to the air and become mercury vapor. After being inhaled into the body, it causes poisoning. If the mercury is accidentally swallowed, if the gastrointestinal mucosa has an ulcer wound, mercury will enter the bloody life.

How to properly handle the broken thermometer and mercury? The doctor reminded that after the thermometer is crushed to the ground, do not scan with a broom to avoid mercury rolling around. The correct way is: put on a mask, open the window to ventilate, put on gloves with a moist cotton swab or tape paper to put the mercury sprinkled on the ground and put it in a seal bottle, then add a small amount of water to the bottle, and in the bottle, and in the bottle, and in a small amount of water, and in the bottle, and in the bottle, and in a small amount of water, and in the bottle, and in the bottle, and in a small amount of water, and in the bottle, and in a small amount of water, and in the bottle, in the bottle, and in a small amount of water, and in the bottle, and in a small amount of water, in the bottle, and in the bottle, and in a small amount of water, and in the bottle, in the bottle, and in a small amount of water, and in the bottle, in the bottle, and in the bottle, and in a small amount of water. The bottle states that "abandoned mercury" and other identified texts are thrown into the appropriate trash bin; if it is suspected that mercury may enter the body as the wound enters the body, you must seek medical treatment in time to prevent it from spreading in the body, unable to remove it, and delay the illness. (Yangjiang Daily reporter Wuye correspondent Chen Mengyuan Tour)

[Edit: Yu Lina]

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