Yang Xiaohui, Bai Mei, Xiao Ruoyi, Deng Xicheng, Wang Jinghua, Luo Jinwen, Huang Peng
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hunan Children's Hospital, Hunan 410007, China.
The First People's Hospital of Guiyang, Guiyang, Guizhou 550001, China.
Heliyon. 2022 Oct;8(10):e10981. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10981. Epub 2022 Oct 10.
The full lockdown was carried out in China as well as in other countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it proved to be effective in reducing the rate of transmission in the early stage of the pandemic. However, the negative effects of full lockdown on human mental health should be taken into consideration.
During COVID-19 lockdown, a 3-month-old male infant was injured with a sewing needle penetrating into his heart by his mother with postpartum depression. The mother had a history of depression, and she reported depressive feelings during quarantine before injuring the infant. In addition, her own mother's health condition had worsened lately following long-term stroke sequelae. These factors may have contributed to her new depressive episode, which caused her to injure her baby with a threaded sewing needle with no witness. The injury was discovered the next day by the infant's paternal grandmother. The baby received an emergency sewing needle removal operation and recovered uneventfully.
Special attention should be paid to persons with a high risk of mental disorder during this pandemic, in order to avoid devastating adverse events or deterioration of conditions for them and those around them.
在新冠疫情期间，中国及其他国家都实施了全面封锁，事实证明这在疫情初期对降低传播率是有效的。然而，全面封锁对人类心理健康的负面影响也应予以考虑。
在新冠疫情封锁期间，一名患有产后抑郁症的母亲用缝纫针刺伤了一名3个月大男婴的心脏。这位母亲有抑郁症病史，她在刺伤婴儿前报告说在隔离期间有抑郁情绪。此外，她自己的母亲长期患有中风后遗症，最近健康状况恶化。这些因素可能导致了她新的抑郁发作，致使她在无人目睹的情况下用带线的缝纫针刺伤了自己的孩子。次日，婴儿的祖母发现了这一伤势。婴儿接受了紧急缝针取出手术，术后恢复良好。
在此次疫情期间，应特别关注有精神障碍高风险的人群，以避免给他们自己及周围的人带来灾难性的不良事件或病情恶化。
