Thua Thu 6 years old living in Guizhou (China) was taken by his parents to travel on the summer vacation.The boy likes the sea, so the whole family decided to go to Hai Khau (Hainan, China).The trip was very happy but after going home a few days, Thua Thua started to show a strange manifestation and had to be hospitalized in a critical condition.

Thua Thua's mother recounted, the first abnormal expression after a 3 -day trip was a high -fever boy.She thinks that the baby cold should give her fever but does not help.When the boy had a fever over 39 degrees for 2 days, his family hurriedly took him to the district health facility.

Here, doctors think that excess has tonsillitis and prescribed drugs.Taking medicine for 2 days was not positive, she continued to take her child back to the hospital.Many tests have been done, they indicate the liver function and other redundant indicators are normal, detecting more bronchitis in the lungs.

In the following days, although he used medication, intravenous fluid, the boy's fever could not decrease, increasingly headache.So Thua Thua was transferred to the Health Hospital of Mothers and Children (Guizhou, China) to check more deeply.A few days later, when signs of meningitis were discovered, redundant continued to be transferred to Quy Duong National Hospital (Guizhou, China) in the night.

While the father was still carrying out the procedure, redundant had severe headaches and then twitching, then fell into a coma.The boy was immediately transferred to the emergency room.The doctor said there was an unknown opaque fluid that accumulated in the back of the excess, many brain tissues were damaged as a hole like a tofu residue.The results of the cerebrospinal fluid show that excess of acanthoeba acanthoeba infection.

Who is susceptible to amoeba -causing encephalitis Acanthamoeba?

Acanthamoeba is a type of amoeba that causes encephalitis and keratitis.Different from Naegleria Fowleri "amoeba amoeba", Acanthamoeba is present in the soil, fresh water and salt water, air around the world.While Naegleria Fowleri is all over the world, in soil, fresh water (ponds, lakes, rivers, tap water, well water ...) but not found in seawater.

Naegleria fowleri amoeba is thermal, developing well at high temperatures up to 45 degrees Celsius and exists from a temperature of 4 degrees Celsius.degrees C.

The doctor of Thua Thua said that the boy was infected with acanthamoeba due to choking seawater, drinking a lot of seawater in the polluted area.He also emphasized that many people infected with this amoeba and it can be detected in the pharyngeal fluid of normal people, the percentage of people with antibodies with amoeba up to 50 - 100%.People who do not have or little antibodies with acanthamoeba are more likely to be dangerous because this type of monandic parasite.These include:

- People with immunodeficiency.

- Children malnourished.

- Very young or old (under 15 years old and over 60 years old).

Acanthamoeba infection is difficult to diagnose accurately in the early stages because antibodies may appear in normal people, mainly diagnosed by brain biopsy.In addition, it is due to the "brain -eating amoeba" whether Naegleria Fowleri or Acanthamoeba after penetrating the body often lies dormant for 3-5 days, progressing silently.Then started outbreak and quickly destroyed the immune system, appeared local nerve damage.

Time of disease of acanthoeba acanthoeba amoebage is 39 days on average.They have nerve -oriented properties, so when penetrating the body will crawl along the nerves and into the brain tissue, causing serious neural infections, until coma and death.When a person is infected with Acanthamoeba, the mortality rate is up to more than 95% and there is no special treatment.

In the case of Thua Thua, although the team of doctors and doctors at the Emergency Department of Quy Duong National Hospital of Hospital, it is difficult to maintain their lives.At the time of hospitalization, the boy lost his consciousness, increased intracranial pressure, respiratory failure and was notified that he could die at any time.

Thua Thua's parents witnessed such a small son not only ill but also mentally depressed for constantly blaming himself.They could not accept that they could lose their son after only one travel.They also sent a warning to everyone, especially families with young children, older people more careful when traveling outdoors.

Source and photo: NetEase Health, Sohu