Myths about the use of antibiotics Myth 1: You can’t get antibiotics without a cold “Oops, the baby seems to have a cold, get some anti-inflammatory medicine.” Such a scenario is not unfamiliar in many families. Many parents, when their children have a little runny nose and cough symptoms, they rush to give their children medicine based on experience, take several antibiotics at the same time or change them frequently, and give their children another medicine immediately after 2 days of taking one kind of medicine without effect. It seems that antibiotics have become a panacea for families. Some parents also emphasize that their children must be given antibiotics to get well when they have a fever. In fact, this is not correct. Bacteria are prevalent in the human body, and some are not pathogenic. It is when the body’s immunity decreases and loses its barrier protection that the bacteria in the body becomes unbalanced and external bacteria are more likely to invade, and it is at this time that antibiotics are needed. Myth 2: Antibiotics can also kill viruses Some parents think of taking medicine as soon as their children catch a cold, think of antibiotics, in fact, antibiotics do not work at this time, in general, colds and flu is caused by viral infections, the main role in eliminating viruses is the body’s immune cells. However, parents often find that children take medicine for a week or so to reduce the symptoms, so there is a kind of illusion that the drug has worked, but in fact, not, the child’s body immune mechanism have a reaction time, when the immune system began to work to suppress the virus, there is a process, even if you do not take antibiotics, about 10 days will also reduce the symptoms, called “self-healing “This is a characteristic that many viral colds have, so sometimes doctors advise parents not to give their children antibiotics as a last resort. Myth 3: Misuse of antibacterial agents when the baby has diarrhea The baby’s digestive function is not yet well developed, coupled with the addition of weaning foods from 4 months, so diarrhea will inevitably occur, and the baby often behaves vomiting and diarrhea, making parents care not to find out the cause of diarrhea, and then rush to the baby with antibacterial agents. Sometimes, in order to quickly stop the diarrhea, they even use many kinds of drugs together, and for a long time, so that parents think that it is safe, including pyrazepam, which should not be used for babies. However, the diarrhea is getting heavier and heavier, and even though the baby is taken to the hospital twice a day, it still remains untreated. In fact, this is due to the mother’s abuse of antibacterial agents. The three main hazards of antibiotic abuse Hazard one: the use of a large number of antibiotics will bring strong toxic side effects, directly harming the body, especially to children’s hearing. The most serious toxic side effects of antibiotics are allergic reactions. Research shows that each antibiotic has different degrees of harm to the human body. For example, streptomycin and kanamycin can cause vertigo, tinnitus and deafness; gentamicin, kanamycin and vancomycin can damage the kidneys, etc. The ear is most sensitive to the side effects of antibiotics, such as streptomycin, gentamicin and kanamycin are most likely to affect the hair cells of the ear and cause hearing loss. Hazard 2: Too much antibiotics can make bacteria resistant, making antibiotic drugs less effective or even ineffective. Too much antibiotics can also make the bacteria that are killed resistant. The actual antibiotics can be used for the purpose of the antibiotics and also for the other antibiotics. Hazard 3: Antibiotics used too much and too indiscriminately will kill a large number of normal bacteria in the body, allowing pathogenic bacteria to take advantage of the situation, which can cause human death. For example, the human intestinal bacteria, according to a certain proportion of the combination, the bacteria between the constraints of each other, interdependent, in quality and quantity to form a kind of ecological balance, long-term application of broad-spectrum antibiotics, sensitive intestinal bacteria are inhibited, not inhibited bacteria multiply, thus causing dysbiosis, can cause some vitamin deficiency, so that the body resistance to decline. Bacteria in the human body are mainly found in the intestinal tract. Some bacteria help digestion, while others are parasitic bacteria, which exist in the skin, oropharynx, ears and eyes, places that are connected to the outside world, they are not pathogenic bacteria, but under certain conditions, these parasitic bacteria can become pathogenic bacteria. When the body flora is out of balance, once there is an infection in a part of the body, it is very easy to deteriorate and can even be fatal.