Children have significant differences from adults in many aspects such as their growth and development characteristics, metabolic patterns and spleen and stomach functions, so the use of drugs for children is very strict in clinical practice. If there is a slight violation, it may not play a proper therapeutic role, and some may even have certain side effects, and this seemingly insignificant regulation is the most easy for many parents to ignore and make mistakes. We often encounter such a situation in the clinic: the child is sick, parents to the child’s medication is also timely, the drug is also the right symptoms, but after eating the effect is not obvious, and eventually lead to aggravation of the disease, which is why? The reason for this is that it has a lot to do with the wrong way of taking medicine for children. I have summarized here seven of the most common mistakes parents make regarding children’s medication to avoid similar situations from happening again, and also to get twice the result with half the effort in terms of medication effectiveness. First, some drugs should not be served with warm water. At least the following six categories of drugs should not be served with warm water, and should choose cool water. 1, clearing heat and detoxifying class of proprietary Chinese medicine. Children who suffer from wind and fever or fever, fire and other heat toxin invasion of the disease, this time with cool boiled water with heat detoxification of Chinese medicine, can maximize the role of drugs, on the contrary, if served with warm water, and the principle of Chinese medicine to contradict the heat, thus affecting the efficacy. 2, vitamin drugs. Most vitamins are water-soluble, extremely unstable, easily decomposed, reduced and destroyed by hot water and lose the original effect. 3, active bacteria preparations. Like our clinically used mamma love, Hershey’s, whole intestine, etc., all contain active bacteria that regulate gastrointestinal function, which can easily be destroyed and killed by warm water, thus not playing any role. 4, active vaccines. Like children taking live attenuated polio vaccine, it is a mixed sugar pill vaccine, this type of vaccine is very sensitive to heat, low temperature conditions are more stable, if served with warm boiled water, it is easy to kill the vaccine virus, and the provisions of cool boiled water served half an hour before you can eat hot things, so as not to affect the immune effect. 5. Syrup-based drugs. Children are most commonly used to cough syrup, such as honey refining Chuanbei loquat, Sanjiu cough syrup, acute syrup, etc. These syrups will adhere directly to the throat to play the most direct role of anti-inflammatory cough, while the formation of a protective layer of the throat mucosa to reduce irritation, thus playing the role of cough suppression. If served with warm water, it is easy to dilute the drug and can not play an effective protective effect on the throat. 6, some digestive drugs. Many of these drugs contain digestive enzymes, and this enzyme is easy to coagulate denaturation in the presence of heat. Second, some drugs should not be taken with water. Like the above-mentioned cough syrup class of drugs, the requirement is to take directly, without water to serve, the only way to maintain the concentration of drugs in the throat, so as to play a better effect. Third, some drugs should not be taken on an empty stomach. Generally speaking, drugs that are irritating to the stomach should not be taken on an empty stomach, such as children’s commonly used antipyretic medicine ibuprofen, iron and zinc supplement zinc sulfate syrup, ferrous gluconate oral solution, etc. should not be taken on an empty stomach. If the child is suffering from gastritis, gastric ulcer and other stomach diseases, you should not take the medicine on an empty stomach, otherwise it will cause further aggravation of gastritis. Fourth, some drugs should not be taken after meals. Like children’s commonly used roundworm medicine intestinal worms, Chinese medicine betel nut, etc., should not be taken after meals, but should be taken early in the morning on an empty stomach, because this can make the drug quickly into the intestine to maintain a high concentration and direct action on the worm body. There are also some diuretics and laxatives should also be taken early in the morning on an empty stomach in order to maximize the effectiveness of the drug. Fifth, the drug instructions or medical advice said “twice a day, three times a day” and other serving method should not be blindly distinguished. Whether the drugs are prescribed in hospitals or pharmacies, the dosage and number of times will be written, and most of us say that parents will generally understand “twice a day” as once in the morning and once in the afternoon, and “three times a day” as once in the morning, afternoon and evening. In fact, this is wrong. “Twice a day” or “three times a day” is based on experiments to determine the metabolic rate of drugs in the human body, meaning that the 24 hours a day is divided into two or three periods, once every 12 hours or 8 hours. Only by taking the drugs strictly according to the regulations can the blood concentration in the body remain relatively stable within 24 hours a day, which is not only less likely to cause adverse drug reactions, but also can achieve better therapeutic effects. If you take the drug three times a day arranged to eat before and after breakfast and dinner, it will make the concentration of drugs in the baby’s body during the day is too high, the concentration of drugs at night is too low and can not achieve the therapeutic effect. Sixth, children should not drink less water or no water after taking medication. Many parents like to let their children take medicine before going to bed, after taking the medicine and do not pay attention to give children to drink water or drink a little water, which is not right. Because whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine, will varying degrees of damage to the baby’s liver and kidneys, this time you need to use water to accelerate metabolism, not only to prevent drug damage to the body, but also to promote the effectiveness of drugs, such as the treatment of colds, fever-like diseases drugs, more water will have better results. Seven, some drugs should not drink more water or even can not drink water after taking. Not all drugs need to drink more water when taking. Some drugs because of its special way of action, when taking not only can not drink more water, or even can not drink water, otherwise it will reduce the effectiveness of the drug, lose the therapeutic effect. Like some of the treatment of gastric ulcer drugs, when taking drugs should not drink more water, if you drink more water will dilute the drug, so that the drug particles covering the damaged gastric mucosa is reduced, the protective film becomes thin, thus losing the therapeutic effect. When taking cough medicine should not drink more water, children commonly used cough syrup, the drug is more viscous, after taking the drug will adhere to the pharynx, directly on the lesion, so as to play an anti-inflammatory cough effect, if you drink too much water, the pharynx will be washed away the active ingredients of the drug, so that the local drug concentration is reduced, affecting the effectiveness of the drug.