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Long-term radiation damage exceeding the allowable dose is called chronic radiation sickness. The disease is common in workers who have received excessive radiation, the public and nuclear explosion victims, and mainly causes hematopoietic dysfunction, visceral bleeding, tissue necrosis, infection and malignant lesions. Among them, the whole body external radiation injury caused by nuclear radiation mainly appears in the early stage of the typical course of acute radiation sickness, which is manifested as nausea, vomiting, fatigue, fever and diarrhea. The duration of "false recovery period" patients is different, and the symptoms are relieved. Severe development to the extreme, with infection, bleeding and gastrointestinal symptoms. After proper treatment, the above symptoms gradually eased. "Local radiation damage varies with the radiation dose, and symptoms such as erythema, edema, dry peeling and wet peeling, blistering, pain, necrosis, gangrene or alopecia may appear at the irradiated site. Local skin injuries usually last for weeks to months, and serious cases are difficult to cure by conventional methods. However, external radiation is more common among nuclear power plant workers.