160 Institute of Health, the director of the original Apple-loving Institute.
When it comes to selling kidneys, everyone’s first reaction must be the high school student who sold kidneys to buy iPhone.
After a lapse of nine years, the young man under the age of 17 has already grown up, and there has been no news about him on social networks.
Many people have been concerned about the follow-up development: after selling a kidney, did he regret it? How is he now?
Why choose to sell kidneys?
In 2011, Xiao Wang, who had just entered the first year of high school, was influenced by the Apple craze and wanted an iPhone with all his heart.
The economic level of Xiao Wang’s family is obviously not enough to support his desire. Xiao Wang, who is almost crazy about Apple products, is always looking for ways to "get money quickly" on QQ.
Soon, he contacted the black intermediary selling kidneys. According to the intermediary, selling a kidney can earn at least 20 thousand yuan, which has no effect on the body. Xiao Wang was bewitched and readily agreed.
Xiao Wang, under the age of 17, set foot on the train to Chenzhou, Hunan alone. The kidney transplant was smoother than he expected. Xiao Wang was amputated in a local hospital a few days after he arrived in Hunan.
After the operation, he bought the latest iPhone and ipad2 as he wished.
Because the operating room selling kidneys at that time was not properly disinfected, Xiao Wang’s wound was infected. Since then, Xiao Wang’s health has gone from bad to worse, and his kidney function has been seriously damaged.
Xiao Wang didn’t confess to his family until he couldn’t bear it.
According to the disability rating standard, the lack of a kidney belongs to grade eight disability.
Xiao Wang’s injury identification result is five-level disability. In other words, after one kidney was removed, the remaining kidney of Xiao Wang was also diseased and no longer healthy.
According to Xiao Wang’s mother, "He is in poor health now. He needs someone to take care of him in bed every day. He is skinny and his body is greatly affected."
At a height of 1.9 meters, he can only be ill in bed, and he is only 90 kilograms thin. After this long nine years, he is only 26 years old.
Today, the value of the popular iPhone4 has already plummeted, and Xiao Wang who lost a kidney can no longer appreciate the taste of health.
Can’t do heavy work, can’t leave the support of drugs, and can’t even walk independently like normal people. You can live, but after all, you lose the capital to fight hard and ruin this period of time that should have been infinite.
How can someone not regret it?
It is not a cost-effective deal to pay for temporary vanity with the health of the rest of your life.
What do you need to do to sell your kidneys?
Let’s first understand the process of organ trading: looking for donors → physical examination and matching → kidney removal → kidney transplantation → postoperative recuperation. The part that kidney sellers need to participate in is mainly physical examination matching and kidney removal.
In the process of organ trading, the most likely accident is kidney removal.
Nephrectomy is just one of the routine operations in urology, which is generally used to treat renal diseases. It can be divided into traditional open surgery and laparoscopic surgery. The former is traumatic, while the latter is minimally invasive, with light pain and quick recovery.
It is obviously impossible for a black-hearted workshop without medical qualification and practice place to have the medical equipment and operating space for laparoscopic nephrectomy.
(The surgical instruments left by the black workshop. Photo by the Beijing News reporter)
Therefore, what is waiting for the kidney seller is the traditional nephrectomy-open surgery.
Open surgery, as its name implies, is to make an incision from the outside of the human body and take out the kidney.
Imagine that a sharp scalpel first goes into your lower abdomen, slides to the upper right of your abdomen, and pulls out an incision 20 cm long. Then cut the ureter and blood vessels around the kidney, and finally peel off a fresh kidney with both hands and put it in a bag for preservation.
How painful is it to be cut open by a knife and skinned alive? The answer is beyond words. But what is certain is that no one can survive this pain soberly.
During the whole operation, the donor may die because of any mistake, such as massive bleeding, incision infection, intra-abdominal infection and arrhythmia.
(The left disinfection tools iodophor and gauze. Photo by Beijing News reporter)
Even if the nephrectomy is successful, the donor is not safe.
In addition to secondary bleeding and infection, open wounds may also be difficult to heal.
Therefore, the risk of selling a kidney is far more than just losing a kidney. It also needs to bet on the health of the next half of life.
How much harm does selling kidneys do to the body?
In the victim’s own words, it is: "Until now, I can’t stay up late for a long time and can’t exercise vigorously. As soon as I run, I will feel pain in the knife. "
(The surgical scar on the boy who sold the kidney. Photo by the Beijing News reporter)
You know, even regular hospitals have risks in routine surgery, not to mention black-hearted workshops that are unqualified and just want to make money.
At first glance, the reward for selling kidneys is not a small fortune. But for the rest of your long life, this money is just a drop in the ocean. You have every chance to earn another 40 thousand in other ways.
This multiple-choice question about health and money, once wrong, means that you can no longer live as a complete person.
What happens when a person lacks a kidney?
Nine years ago, Xiao Wang, who was determined to sell his kidney, boasted: "One kidney is enough for me. Why do I need another one?" Why not sell it? "
It is this ignorance that black intermediaries use to trick groups of people trapped by money into jumping into the trap.
What happens when a person lacks a kidney?
You can’t die, just like you can survive without a hand. Any paired organ in the human body can function normally without half of it.
As Dr. Zhihu Joe said:
In order to resist external damage, human tissues and organs have many protection mechanisms:
Like the liver, after cutting off some parts, it can be completely regenerated;
Like skin, it will be repaired by scar tissue. Although it is not as smooth as before, it can also be used.
Like the heart, nerve cells, dead people are gone;
Like lungs and kidneys, they can’t regenerate, and they use their own strong reserve capacity.
The kidney is a part of the urinary system, and its main function is to filter impurities, maintain the balance of body fluids and electrolytes, and regulate endocrine.
To put it bluntly, the kidney is equivalent to a "water purification factory", which absorbs nutrients in the blood and discharges wastes and impurities produced by metabolism in the body.
A normal person’s kidney can filter 1 liter of blood every minute, and the whole body blood can be filtered every 4 minutes. The filter waste and excess salt will be excreted in that form of urine.
When you have two kidneys, the cells inside are in shifts, and everyone takes turns to work, combining work and rest.
Taking off a kidney is equivalent to mass layoffs for the human body, and the equipment and staff are directly reduced by half. The only remaining employees need to bear double the workload, and no one rotates, and they are exhausted day and night.
Although the workload has doubled, it can certainly be handled. If the remaining half of the factory can be fully compensated, your kidney function will not be affected.
However, without a kidney, the human body’s ability to resist kidney disease has also been greatly weakened. Once there is a problem with the only one left, the human body will easily develop into chronic renal failure or "undead cancer"-uremia.
For the single kidney group, the probability of gout is greater than that of ordinary people, and drinking, smoking and taking medicine should be avoided as much as possible.
Sure. As long as it is not illegally cut, there is basically no difference between a single kidney and a double kidney. After all, a single kidney is born.
No business, no harm.
China has never lacked patients who need organ transplants. What it lacks is organs.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Health, about 1.5 million people in China urgently need to receive donations every year. In the end, only 10 thousand people can get donated organs from others to continue to live.
Why is there a black market for organs?
Some people can lose everything in order to survive; And some people, for the sake of money, can not die.
When selling a kidney, the donor can only get 40,000 to 50,000 RMB; And to buy a kidney, the recipient needs to spend tens of millions. Among them, the price difference of hundreds of thousands is all obtained by the "dirty" workshop.
In the face of this huge market demand and interests, many people have already stripped off the coat of human nature and revealed their ferocious nature.
To borrow a word from Toyo Deng Ning:
Once there is a proper profit, capital will be bold. If there is a 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; With a profit of 20%, it will be active; With a profit of 50%, it will take risks; For 100% profit, it dares to trample on all human laws; With a profit of 300%, it dares to commit any crime, even at the risk of hanging its head.
There is no essential difference between organ trafficking and human trafficking. People are regarded as goods and clearly priced.
People are not objects. Any part of our body is priceless and precious. Once you accept the price set by the outside world, you will become a commodity to be slaughtered, and no one will be responsible for your health or even your life.
In this illegal transaction, you are not even Party B, you are just a commodity from Party B with empty gloves.
Some people may say, "if there is no way out, no one will choose to sell their kidneys."
In this regard, the director wants to say: you have the health that others can’t ask for, and this is the greatest wealth that fate has given you. The shepherd would rather lose the wool than the sheep. Even if there are thousands of helplessness in life, there is always a road that will be smooth.
The purpose of the director’s writing this article is to hope that everyone can pay attention to and care for their health. Life is only once, and health is hard to come by. There is nothing worth exchanging your body for.
Of course, we can strive for the life we want by our own strength, but before that, we must learn: self-love.
Don’t ruin your health for a moment’s desire.
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