Recently, China’s “children’s safety medication survey” results show that children’s irrational use of drugs up to 12% to 32%. Medicine can cure, but also cause disease, especially for developing children, the wrong use of drugs may incur serious consequences. Sugar or milk medication, halving adult medication, abuse of nutritional products ….. .Do you know all the 7 major misconceptions about medication for children? For the sake of your child’s health and safety, please choose carefully! These misconceptions about children’s medication should be avoided: 1. Abuse of antipyretic drugs The child’s thermoregulatory center function is very weak, a disease will be fever, and other symptoms are not obvious, if the antipyretic drugs to suppress it, it will cover up the condition, adding to the diagnosis of the paragraph difficult. When a child has a fever, the cause should be identified and then treated. 2, sugar water to take medicine Some Chinese medicine taste bitter, many parents will choose to use sugar water to coax their children to take medicine. Sugar contains more calcium, iron and other minerals. It can react chemically with the proteins in the Chinese medicine, which will coagulate and denature in the gastric juice. The subsequent cloudy precipitation makes the efficacy of the treatment much less effective. Sugar can also interfere with the absorption of trace elements and vitamins. Degrade the active ingredients of some drugs. It is best to take the medicine with plain water. 4, pediatric use of adult drugs Pediatric and adult in many aspects of physiology, pathology differences exist. In particular, pediatric liver, kidneys and other organs are not fully developed enzyme system. Drug metabolism produces unresponsiveness, and in severe cases can be disabling or even fatal. Some antibacterial drugs can cause arthropathy and prevent the normal development of cartilage, and should not be taken by minors under the age of 18. 5, indiscriminate supplementation of nutritional supplements Parents’ initial intention is to enhance the physical fitness of their children, the phenomenon of giving children to take supplements abounds. Some nutritional supplements contain a certain amount of hormones or hormone-like substances, and too much of them can cause endocrine dysfunction, forming premature maturity or affecting development. children above the age of 5 who are weak can do so under the guidance of a doctor. 6, multiple drugs for one disease In order for the child to recover early, multiple drugs go hand in hand. Drugs are too mixed, the role of each other can be offset, and toxic reactions can be added, not only the efficacy is not good, and adverse reactions can occur. The toxicity of multiple drugs taken at the same time can be superimposed. Do not use drugs indiscriminately because of anxiety. 7, abuse of vitamins Many to use vitamins have certain adverse effects and even toxic reactions. Especially fat-soluble vitamins. Too much or too long may cause accumulation in the body and poisoning. Natural vitamins in food should be the best choice. Parents can focus on supplementing the appropriate vitamins through the daily diet according to the child’s physical needs.