Four-year-old
Pham Van Thuan died in Quang Ngai Province Monday after suffering palmoplantar
keratoderma, which is characterized by an even, thick, symmetric hyperkeratosis
over the whole of the palm and sole.
Following a similar case that happened to an
under-10-year-old child last year, Thuan was the second child in the province
to have died of the skin disease for which doctors have yet to find the cause,
VnExpress newswire quoted Nguyen Xuan Men, deputy director of the provincial
Health Department, as saying.
The boy, of Ba Dien Commune, mountainous Ba To
District, was admitted to Quang Ngai General Hospital on December 31 after
developing palmoplantar keratoderma, ulcers on the hands and feet, and serious
liver function disorder, doctors said.
On January 2, Thuan was transferred to the Da
Nang General Hospital but he died after one day of treatment.
As of January 4, 98 people, including 25
children, have suffered from the skin disease, the department reported.
In December 2011 alone, 11 children under 10
were hospitalized with ulcers in their hands, feet, mouths, backs and abdomens.
Most of them were in poor health condition and suffered from liver function
disorder.
The department has ordered the Ba To Health
Center to treat patients in accordance with the instructions from the Quy Hoa
National Leprosy Dermatology Hospital in Binh Dinh Province.
The center must transfer all patients in
critical condition to that hospital or the Quang Ngai General Hospital, where
they will be given free meals, the department said.
On December 26-27, 2011, the Quang Ngai health
authorities have given medical checkups and provided medicines to 300 people in
Ba Dien Commune, where the skin disease broke out. Medical workers also sprayed
antiseptic chemicals in the commune.
“Though the health sector has yet to identify
the cause of the skin disease, everybody should not worry excessively. We are
continuing with our investigation and discovering some factors that might give
rise to the disease, such as pesticide, fertilizer, and chemicals that are being
used locally,” Dr. Tran Hau Khang, director of the National Hospital of
Dermatology and Venereology, told VnExpress.
Doctors should continue treating patients
under the hospital’s instructions, including requesting patients to spend more
time for resting, prescribing them with vitamins of the B group, Zn
supplements, suitable ointment, liver tonics, or applying transfusion to
patients with liver injuries, he said.
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