China News Agency, Beijing, January 9th: Under the new situation of the epidemic, how to optimize the treatment of "one old and one young" in the tenth edition of the diagnosis and treatment plan?

  Author Ma Shuisha

  Based on the implementation of "Class B and B Control" for the new coronavirus infection, Chinese officials recently released the tenth edition of the diagnosis and treatment plan.

Compared with the ninth edition of the diagnosis and treatment plan released ten months ago, what are the characteristics of the new version?

What are the optimizations for the current medical treatment of "one old and one young" that has attracted much attention?

The Joint Defense and Control Mechanism of the State Council of China held a press conference on January 9 to interpret this.

  Guo Yanhong, director of the Medical Emergency Department of the National Health and Medical Commission, pointed out that the tenth edition of the new crown diagnosis and treatment plan was optimized according to the epidemic prevention and control measures, and was revised in combination with the actual clinical characteristics of the Omicron mutant strain and the infected person.

  With the prevalence of Omicron mutant strains in China, people have a deeper understanding of its pathogenicity, epidemiological and clinical characteristics and other pathogenic mechanisms.

Wang Guiqiang, director of the Infectious Diseases Department of Peking University First Hospital, said that compared with the Delta strain and the original strain, the pathogenicity of the Omicron strain was significantly reduced, and the infectivity was significantly increased. For infection, intensive symptomatic treatment and respiratory support are still required.

  This is also reflected in the new version of the plan to optimize the medical treatment measures for vulnerable groups of "one old and one young", especially to enhance the pertinence of traditional Chinese medicine treatment.

  The elderly, as well as those with underlying diseases and who have not been vaccinated, are high-risk groups for severe COVID-19.

For critically ill patients, the tenth edition of the diagnosis and treatment plan adds a new method of medication according to the disease in the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, which enhances the pertinence of severe treatment.

Jia Zhongwu, director of the Department of Medical Administration of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that the tenth version of the plan summarizes a variety of common clinical symptoms and proposes specific prescriptions to make it more in line with clinical practice and facilitate reference by clinicians, especially those who are not majors in traditional Chinese medicine. use.

  He pointed out that TCM physicians with rich clinical experience can combine their own experience, "learn from the experts' ideas, not follow the experts' prescriptions", "three factors and conditions", and strive for precision.

For clinical physicians in general hospitals and specialized hospitals, as long as they can follow the tenth edition of the treatment plan and give necessary guidance, "medicine according to the symptoms" will achieve very good clinical effects.

  In addition, children's COVID-19 treatment is also the focus of current medical treatment.

Compared with the ninth edition of the program, the content of this TCM children's program has increased significantly.

The ninth edition of the diagnosis and treatment plan put forward the basic principles of TCM children’s treatment, but did not recommend specific drugs. Chinese medicine treatment plan for children.

  For example, the new version of the plan clarifies the TCM syndrome types of mild and medium-sized children, and gives corresponding Chinese medicine prescriptions and children's medication methods, and recommends some Chinese patent medicines and non-drug therapies; for severe and critically ill children, refer to the adult plan On the basis of the above, highlight the characteristics of children's disease and syndrome, and put forward guiding opinions.

  Jia Zhongwu said that in consideration of the difficulty in taking medicine for children, in this treatment plan, experts in traditional Chinese medicine specifically listed the external treatment methods for children according to their immature yin and yang constitutions and their sensitivity to external stimuli. Including children's massage therapy, scraping therapy, acupuncture therapy, etc., through external treatment methods, the meridians are dredged, yin and yang are adjusted, and finally the therapeutic effect is achieved, which also reduces the trouble of administering medicine to children.

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