When the baby is sick, parents are eager to cure the disease, without the guidance of the doctor, on the basis of their own little medical common sense, unauthorized use of drugs, not knowing that this practice is wrong, and even dangerous. In life, the phenomenon of improper use of medication happens often. The following are some of the misconceptions about medication that you should be aware of.
Do not use antibiotics indiscriminately when you have a cold.
People generally refer to antibiotics as “anti-inflammatory drugs”, but anti-inflammatory drugs are not the same as antibiotics. Most of the reasons why babies get colds are viral infections, and antibiotics do not work on viruses at all. When the weather changes a lot, you should give your baby more zinc, VC chewable tablets, probiotic flush or use Chinese medicine such as Banlangen to prevent colds.
Avoid half-measures when administering medicine.
When the baby has inflammation, some parents are eager to see the effect of antibiotics [a1] type of medicine, using a day or two without effect, and immediately change to a new drug. The consequences of doing so can only foster bacterial resistance. This is because no matter what kind of antibiotics, there is a time process to kill the bacteria.
Do not use antidiarrheal drugs indiscriminately when you have abdominal pain.
Diarrhea is a common disease in young children, mostly caused by gastrointestinal dysfunction, intestinal dysfunction, indigestion, bacterial infection and endocrine disorders, etc. The medication for infectious diarrhea and non-infectious diarrhea is very different. However, some parents are eager to blindly apply antidiarrheal medication when they find their children’s great book is slightly diluted. The antidiarrheal medicine has a strong astringent effect, and although it can temporarily relieve the symptoms of diarrhea after taking it, the harmful bacteria and toxins that remain in the intestinal tract cannot be discharged from the body, and these harmful bacteria and toxins increase rapidly in the intestinal tract, secondary to a variety of cold and fever diseases, which seriously threaten the health of young children. Therefore, the treatment of diarrhea in young children must not be generalized, but should be treated symptomatically.
Do not use cough medicine indiscriminately when coughing.
Coughing is a protective reflex of the human body. The germs and phlegm in the respiratory tract can be expelled from the body by coughing, which plays a role in cleaning the respiratory tract and keeping it open. However, when some young parents find their children coughing, they rush to feed them various cough suppressants and cough syrups, which quickly act on the cough center after entering the body and produce a strong cough suppressant effect. Although this practice can temporarily relieve cough symptoms, it can cause a large amount of phlegm and germs to accumulate in the respiratory tract, secondary to bacterial infections, which can cause chest tightness and breathing difficulties at birth, and even cause atelectasis and heart failure that can endanger life.
Avoid giving your baby adult medicine.
The organs and tissues in your baby’s body are not yet well developed, especially the liver, kidneys and nervous system, which are vulnerable to damage from drugs. Therefore, some adult drugs should not be given to babies easily. Such as: haloperidol, cotrimoxazole, cotrimoxazole, etc.
Avoid abusing gammaglobulin.
Some people take gammaglobulin as a tonic, in fact, the main use of gammaglobulin is to prevent measles, hepatitis A, mumps and poliomyelitis, the prevention and control of other infectious diseases is not reliable. Since both globulins are made from human blood or placenta, abuse may result in side effects such as urticaria, so it should not be abused as a tonic.
More water should not be added to the decoction of tonics.
Tonic medicine is bitter and children generally refuse to accept it, so the amount of medicine must be small and precise. When decocting, add less water, take a little longer to decoct, and make it thicker and less dense to facilitate feeding.
Sugar should not be used indiscriminately when taking Chinese medicine.
In Chinese medicine, medicine and food have the same origin, and all food can be classified according to the four gases and five tastes. Brown sugar is warm in nature and can dispel cold; white sugar is cool in nature and can defeat fire. When taking Chinese medicine, first understand the nature of the drug.
Avoid using fruit juice when taking western medicine:
Juice contains acidic substances, which can make the drug decompose in advance, or make the drug coat dissolve in advance, and shall not be absorbed by the stomach and intestines. And some alkaline drugs can not be served with juice, because the acid-base neutralization of the two will make the effect of the drug greatly reduced.
Avoid taking medicine with tea and milk:
Because tea contains caffeine, theophylline, tannic acid, silicic acid, etc., such as the reaction with the drug in the million, will make the drug ineffective or produce adverse consequences. Milk contains more proteins and fatty acids, which can form a film around the pill to wrap the drug, thus affecting the absorption of the drug by the organism.
There are only two major classes of antibiotics commonly used and relatively safe in pediatrics, erythromycin and penicillin.
Erythromycin:
The representative drugs of the erythromycin class of antibiotics are erythromycin, erythromycin amber, roxithromycin, clarithromycin, etc. For children who are allergic to penicillin, erythromycin is an alternative choice; in recent years, mycoplasma pneumonia, neonatal conjunctivitis and infantile pneumonia caused by atypical pathogenic bacteria are becoming more and more common, and erythromycin has good effect on all such infections and is one of the drugs of choice.
Erythromycin adverse reactions are relatively mild, commonly including gastrointestinal discomfort, or allergic reactions such as urticaria, but hepatic and renal toxicity are rare, and are relatively suitable and safe types of antibiotics for children.
Penicillin:
For children, the biggest advantage of penicillin is low toxicity, little liver and kidney damage, and no impact on growth and development. As long as the child is not allergic to penicillin, penicillin is an ideal choice of antibiotic. It is best to do a skin test for each injection
There is another important branch of the penicillin family, which is the β-lactam broad-spectrum antibiotics, also called cephalosporin or pioneer antibiotics, with representative drugs such as cefadroxil, cefuroxime and cefotaxime sodium. These drugs are also safe and have a lower incidence of allergy than penicillin.
Other antibiotics should be used with caution:
Such as haloperidol and other quinolones may affect the child’s cartilage development, causing the head to grow taller; tetracyclines can cause tetracycline teeth, and the hepatic and renal toxicity is not small; chloramphenicol causes bone marrow suppression, resulting in aplastic anemia, and gray baby syndrome may also occur in newborns; gentamicin, etc. may cause deafness and bring serious disabilities to children.
Simethicone (montelukast preparation), the main role is to adsorb toxins and eliminate them from the body. Yeast polysaccharide also has a similar effect.