After this diagnostic meeting, the medical team and the command center agreed to conduct a clinical experiment.
The medical team selected ten patients and gave them ordinary soil to eat to see if there would be any effect on relieving symptoms and what changes would occur in the patients' body and mind.
As for the abnormal soil with that kind of parasite eggs in that wasteland, it is not in the scope of the experiment for the time being.
The ten patients who participated in the experiment were quickly selected, five teachers, five students, male and female, aged 17-45, all voluntarily.
The conditions of the patients are all similar. In fact, their mental state is almost close to delirium. The psychological intervention treatment of the medical team is completely ineffective. experiment.
These ten patients were all admitted to a high-level separate isolation ward, which was monitored and photographed, and also equipped with ECG monitors, gastric lavage machines, old seal stones and other equipment.
Wang Jinbo, the teaching director, is one of them.
If you talk about Director Wang, everyone will give you a thumbs up. Director Wang is in his forties. He has a serious style but is very popular with the students. Because Director Wang really cares about the students and does not engage in bureaucracy. The reputation of the secondary school has improved.
On weekdays, Director Wang always wears a decent casual suit and combs his hair neatly, like an old pedant.
When the students saw him, although they all privately joked about how much hairspray Director Wang used, they were really motivated by seeing the director's energy.
But now, after more than 30 hours of tossing and tossing, Director Wang is much haggard, with messy hair, two dark circles under his eyes, deep bags under his eyes, and a suppressed and weird desire in his eyes, which makes him Like an addict who goes and comes back in rehab.
"What's going on, what's going on..." Wang Jinbo sat on the edge of the hospital bed, muttering constantly, scratching his hair and scratching his throat.
He felt like he had been hungry for more than ten days, wanted to eat, only wanted to eat, but only wanted to eat one kind of thing.
Before entering this ward, Wang Jinbo was arranged to have some examinations, and now he was connected to the ECG monitoring by the nurse.
Surveillance cameras captured all this. At this time, the door of the ward was opened, and several medical staff wearing heavy protective clothing came in. The ID cards were written as doctors, and several nurses were pushing a stainless steel tool. The car, with some medicines, syringes, and an instrument tray covering something.
"Ah..." Wang Jinbo vaguely smelled the smell of soil, and was about to pounce on it, exerting all his strength to barely control himself.
Si Kouxian and Wang Ruoxiang are both in the team of doctors. They need to do clinical observation, not only the index data recorded by the equipment, but also the changes in the level of mental induction.
"Director Wang." Si Kouxian communicated with the patient, "We brought you 50 grams of soil."
50 grams is equivalent to an egg. Normal people will not be fatal if they eat 50 grams of soil at a time. It may cause indigestion, abdominal distension, diarrhea, etc., but it is also possible to have no discomfort in the body. It varies from person to person, but Overall it's not an amazing portion.
Moreover, these soils were transported from the south, not the soil in Mobei area. The two places are very far away, and they have been tested for any parasites, bacteria, viruses or harmful substances. The patients are provided with these clean and healthy ones. of soft soil.
"50 grams!?" Wang Jinbo exclaimed in surprise, greatly disappointed, and suddenly became more irritable.
How much is 50 grams? One bite or two
"Yes, 50 grams, let's see the situation first." Si Kouxian just said, given the patient's current state, allowing him to eat may burst his stomach.
"Okay... where is it?" Wang Jinbo didn't care so much for a while, and sure enough, he saw the nurse take off the cover of the instrument tray, and a small ball of yellowish-brown soil was placed on the tray, and the nurse pushed the tool cart to the side of the hospital bed. Wang Jinbo hurriedly reached out to grab the mud ball and stuffed it into his mouth.
The cheeks on both sides of his face suddenly opened up, his chewing muscles gnawed frantically, and he devoured the lump of mud, so greedy and anxious.
Wang Jinbo did not lose his sanity, so he also felt ashamed and painful for his behavior, but he really couldn't control his impulse...
At the same time, the doctors looked nervous. The results of this clinical experiment are very important.
If the patient can get spiritual satisfaction from this, at least some relief, and there is no bad change in the body, and the diet can be resumed to maintain the functional and mental state. With such good results, it would be possible to treat these patients with pica.
The human body can sustain 50 grams of soil per day. There are such cases in the world. After eating for more than ten years, the body has no problem.
But now there is a lack of time, what is needed is to control the epidemic, prevent the locust disease from spreading, and prevent these patients from connecting with the mutation area.
"Uh, uh..." Wang Jinbo made a weird swallowing sound, licking clean every finger he had scratched the dirt, followed by the instrument tray.
Wang Ruoxiang looked at the ECG monitor. The patient's heart rate and blood pressure were rising.
The rational monitoring stone and the old seal stone did not respond. She sensed the surroundings, and Director Wang's spirit... seemed to be becoming more fanatical...
"Is there any more? Is there any more?" Wang Jinbo's middle-aged face flushed a little, and the desire in his eyes hadn't disappeared, "It's not enough, just this little is really not enough... I don't think I've ever eaten it, it doesn't seem like this taste , not quite what I thought..."
The patients didn't know where the soil they ate came from. No one had revealed it. They should think it was the soil from Mobei.
Only now, the doctors looked at each other, and the patients seemed to be able to tell the difference, even though they had never eaten that kind of abnormal soil.
But does ordinary soil work? Or could there be a placebo effect
"Director Wang, that's 50 grams for today." Si Kouxian said, "Do you feel like you want to eat something else now?"
"No..." Wang Jinbo's complexion became more and more red, and then turned white. Suddenly, cold sweat broke out, and he covered his abdomen, "Stomach pain..."
Seeing that the patient's heart rate soared to 145 beats per minute, obviously suffering from great pain, Si Kouxian gave an order: "Stomach lavage!" Everyone immediately took action.
The hearts of the doctors sank, but they had already calculated this, and the gastric lavage machine was brought in to prevent this from happening.
Apomorphine was also formulated as an emetic. Although this drug can be effective after subcutaneous injection for 5 minutes, it has too many side effects and will also affect the patient's spirit. In severe cases, confusion and hallucinations may occur, so it is not necessary not to use it.
At this time, before the nurses inserted the gastric lavage tube into the patient, Wang Jinbo suddenly vomited wildly into the waste basin beside the bed.
The stench rose, and the soil that had just been eaten was mixed with yellow stomach acid and bright red blood, splashing and falling into the dirt basin.