Parents often have two extreme attitudes toward the use of antibiotics: one believes that antibiotics are the special medicine for colds and fevers, and must be used for fevers. The other view is that antibiotics are a scourge, no matter how the baby’s condition is, firmly resist the use of antibiotics. Of course, both views are incorrect. In addition, parents often make the following mistakes when giving antibiotics to their children. Mistake 1: use antibiotics to prevent infection At present, the abuse of antibiotics in China is relatively common, not only ordinary people think that the application of antibiotics can prevent infection, even some professional doctors think so. In the outpatient clinic, there are often doctors do not ask questions, on the baby prescribed a bunch of antibiotics; after the operation of the baby has no signs of infection, some doctors also preventive application of antibiotics. In fact, this can not achieve the effect of prevention, and the consequences of abuse can only be more and more serious bacterial resistance, infection is more and more difficult to control. Mistake 2: one does not work immediately change another antibiotic to play the effect of the premise is the concentration of drugs in the blood, that is, the concentration of blood to reach the effective level, so the immediate effect is not uncommon, but count on the use of antibiotics immediately after the medicine to get rid of the disease is also unrealistic. If antibiotics are not effective, it is important to consider whether the medication has been given long enough. Changing medications early will not only not help your condition, but can also cause bacteria to become resistant to multiple antibiotics. It is also wrong to stop taking antibiotics as soon as they work. Antibiotics have their own course of treatment, if “see the effect of stopping the drug”, not only can not cure the disease but also because of the residual bacteria and make the disease recur. Mistake three: several kinds of antibiotics together Some parents think that the baby is sick at the same time the best use of several kinds of antibiotics, so as to prevent bacterial leakage. In fact, if there is no clear clinical indication for treatment, it is not advisable to combine antibiotics, and for non-professionals, it is even more important not to combine them without authorization. Unreasonable combination of antibiotics, not only can not increase the efficacy, but will lead to more adverse reactions occur. Mistake 4: the baby dose is half the adult dose The dose of antibiotics for babies can not simply be converted to half the adult dose. The use of antibiotics must have a limit and range, the dosage of large side effects will increase; dosage is too small to reach a certain concentration, the body bacteria are not completely killed, not only easy to relapse, but also more likely to cause drug resistance. Therefore, the use of antibiotics must follow the doctor’s instructions, the dose should be accurate, the course of treatment should be enough, so as to ensure the maximum effect of antibiotics. Mistake 5: cold and fever infusion treatment Many parents are worried about the baby’s cold and fever “progress” or hope that “get better as soon as possible”, asked the doctor to use antibiotics infusion, the results not only lead to an increase in medical costs, but also more serious is the increase in drug resistance. In fact, cold and fever are not the same thing. Colds can cause fever, but a fever may not always be a cold; usually colds are caused by viruses, antibiotics have no effect on viruses. Mistake 6: Family medicine box always have antibiotics Every time I go out to the clinic, I always encounter such patients, asking for a few more days of antibiotics, in case of emergency. Doctors do not support such requests. An antibiotic can not cure all diseases, this time this antibiotic is effective, the next time you get sick this antibiotic may not be effective. Therefore, for different infections need to use different antibiotics, and this knowledge must be professionally trained doctors to master, parents arbitrarily give their babies antibiotics is not only difficult to treat the symptoms, delay the disease, but also increase the chance of antibiotic resistance. Common adverse reactions to antibiotics 1, allergic reactions. Penicillin, streptomycin, vancomycin, etc. can make people have allergic reactions, common for drug rash, dermatitis and drug fever, etc., serious life-threatening. 2, toxic reaction. Including auditory nerve damage, hematopoietic system dysfunction, renal and hepatic damage and gastrointestinal reactions, the nature and extent of which vary according to the type of drug and individual differences in patients. 3.Dual infection. Infants and young children, as well as the elderly, the frail, abdominal surgery and the abuse of antibiotics are more likely to occur. Secondary infections are generally more difficult to control and are very dangerous. 4, drug resistance. Most bacteria are resistant to antibiotics. With the wide application of antibiotics and irrational use of antibiotics caused by the abuse of antibiotics, resulting in an increasing number of drug-resistant strains, and even the emergence of superbugs, affecting the treatment of disease, some patients have serious consequences due to the lack of sensitive antibiotics to control the infection. 5, local stimulation. Most of the intramuscular injection of antibiotics can cause local pain, intravenous injection may also cause thrombophlebitis.