According to the Shenyang Evening News on July 23: Qiangqiang, a 7-year-old boy from Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, suffered from a fungal infection due to misuse of antibiotics. When Qiangqiang was two years old, he was treated with “top quality” antibiotics for a cold complicated by lobar pneumonia. After he recovered from the illness, his father gave him antibiotics for another two months. Since then, Qiangqiang’s body has become weaker and weaker, and he often catches colds, and taking antibiotics has become a “routine”. A year ago, Qiangqiang’s hair and fingernails grew a small “mushroom”; not long ago, he had a sudden high fever, convulsions, coma, diagnosed as a fungal infection and has been into the blood, his life is in danger! In fact, there are many famous medical experts in China have painfully stated a harsh reality: China has become one of the world’s most serious abuse of antibiotics. The abuse of antibiotics in China has led to an average annual increase in medical costs of 80 billion yuan; 80,000 people die every year from the abuse of antibiotics, 10 times the number of deaths in mining accidents! Children are the biggest victims of antibiotic abuse! Unexplained misuse of antibiotics “Respiratory tract infections account for the first incidence of pediatric diseases. During the season when respiratory diseases are prevalent, children with respiratory infections often account for 90% of all pediatric outpatient visits. Most of these children have a fever, and at this time, regardless of whether the child has signs of bacterial infection, i.e., increased blood leukocytes, many doctors and parents do not even check the children’s blood on antibiotics, and is a broad-spectrum, larger dose of antibiotics. This is the most common misuse of antibiotics in pediatrics today.” In both adults and children, respiratory infections can be caused by viral or bacterial infections. The former are not amenable to antibiotics, while the latter are the only ones for which antibiotics are indicated. But even when antibiotics are indicated, there are many issues to be aware of, or they can be misused. “The “top” may not be the best The current problem of antibiotic abuse, including children’s medication, exists for the following reasons: 1, take antibiotics as a “panacea”, “insurance medicine. Some parents take antibiotics as a “cure-all”, said to the doctor: “The child’s poor health, often fever, cough. You give some anti-inflammatory drugs, the child has a small illness at home to take medicine, not to the hospital.” There are also people who take antibiotics as “insurance medicine”, even if the patient’s condition does not have antibiotic indications, also use antibiotics. In fact, more than 90% of respiratory infections are caused by viruses, antibiotics are ineffective. 2, that the “top” antibiotics can best “kill” bacteria. Some people think that the most expensive antibiotics are the “top of the line”, with the strongest bactericidal effect and the best efficacy. In fact, the price of antibiotics and clinical efficacy are not necessarily linked. For example, the narrow-spectrum antibiotic erythromycin, the price is very cheap, for legionella and mycoplasma infections of pneumonia has a fairly good efficacy. The very expensive broad-spectrum antibiotics carbapenems and third-generation cephalosporins are not as effective as erythromycin in dealing with these pathogens. Moreover, some of the cheaper, older drugs are more stable, plus people do not use them as often, so the efficacy may be better. Some more expensive broad-spectrum antibiotics are effective against all types of bacteria, but there are more resistant bacteria and more adverse drug reactions. So the choice of antibiotics is appropriate for the disease, not the more expensive the better. 3, that more use of several antibiotics can be more effective in controlling infections. In fact, irrational combination of antibiotics will reduce the efficacy of treatment, and increase the adverse reactions, resulting in the emergence of drug resistance. Therefore, it is not advisable to combine antibiotics without clear clinical indications. Children are the most serious victims Why are children the biggest victims of antibiotic abuse? 1, the most direct impact is to lead to children’s body bacterial drug resistance rate increases. 2, due to the immature development of children’s organs, and antibiotics have toxic side effects and have killed the normal flora of the human body harmful, so it is easy to damage or potentially damage children’s body organs. For example, many antibiotics are metabolized by the liver, and their abuse can easily cause damage to liver function. Another example, aminoglycoside antibiotics can easily cause deafness and kidney damage in children, quinolones such as ciprofloxacin have potential damage to children’s cartilage, and chloramphenicol can lead to bone marrow suppression caused by aplastic anemia and so on. 3, the worst effect is to cause the destruction of the normal flora in children’s bodies, reducing the resistance of children’s bodies, which in turn causes secondary infections. This dual infection, that is, the patient first occurred bacterial infections, in a large number of antibiotics, and then fungal infections such as thrush, Candida enteritis, systemic Candida infections, etc., the patient’s condition is often critical, and the treatment is very difficult. The above boy Qiangqiang is a typical case of dual infection. Fourthly, if antibiotics are given to infants and young children indiscriminately, it will increase their chances of developing asthma. This is because the normal flora of the gastrointestinal tract maintains the integrity of the intestinal mucosa, which reduces the absorption of antigenic substances from food into the bloodstream. The misuse of antibiotics, however, inhibits the growth of normal flora, so that a large number of antigenic substances are absorbed by the body, thus causing asthma. Traditional Chinese medicine is effective in treating “Since most children’s respiratory infections are viral, applying antibiotics to their fever and cough is ineffective. And we see that applying antibiotics to these children, even without exceeding the dose and time, can have two most direct damages. First, the children in the disease were already weak in the spleen and stomach, oral antibiotics will aggravate the weakness of the spleen and stomach, leading to a further decline in the body’s resistance to the kind of situation described above boy Qiangqiang, or the disease lingers on, or ‘every now and then’ sick; Second, many children continue to have a low-grade fever after the disease is healed, which is considered by Chinese medicine practitioners to be the manifestation of a deficiency of the yin and is not caused by a bacterial infection, if the application of antibiotics to these children. Not caused by bacterial infection, if the application of antibiotic treatment is ineffective and will cause a lot of abuse of antibiotics. So, what should children do when these two conditions occur? We suggest going to a regular Chinese medicine hospital and asking the Chinese medicine doctor to apply Chinese medicine treatment, which will achieve very good therapeutic effect and will not cause problems caused by the abuse of antibiotics.