Why did ancient people sometimes die "with a sore on their back"?

In fact, in ancient times, people who usually lost their lives due to sores on their backs were mostly elderly people with limited mobility. The probability of young people or middle-aged people with strong physical strength losing their lives due to sores on their backs was very rare. As for why the elderly would lose their lives due to sores on their backs.

Sores cost lives, but young people don't. At this point, we have to explain what the sores on the back were in ancient times.

The sores on the back in ancient times are now called back carbuncles. Back carbuncles are generally very common in the elderly with low immunity. Many elderly people have diabetes that causes the body system to lose balance, and are therefore infected by bacteria outside the body.

If there is an opportunity to invade the body, the skin on a person's back will bulge due to bacterial infection. This is what we call back carbuncle.

This back carbuncle covers a very large area. Sometimes a small part of the back will be covered by a carbuncle. The back carbuncle feels relatively hard. The skin will become a little keratinized due to long-term bulging. Hardness is inevitable.

After a person develops carbuncle, a lot of pus will appear on the back, which makes daily life very inconvenient. It will be extremely painful when lying down. In addition to the pain in the back, back carbuncle affects the entire body.

The elderly will suffer many effects after developing carbuncles on their backs, such as frequent dizziness, thirst, nausea, fear of cold and heat, and frequent uncontrolled vomiting when eating. In severe cases, it can cause confusion and constant coughing.

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Ice was a very scarce thing in ancient times. If you suffer from back carbuncle in summer, although hot water also has a certain therapeutic effect, but think about it, in those hot dog days, there was no air conditioning or fan.

You have to put a plate of hot water on your back from time to time. This kind of heat is unbearable for many elderly people. Therefore, the mortality rate of ancient elderly people suffering from back carbuncle was so high that we modern people cannot imagine.