When a baby is sick, mom and dad are anxious and distressed, and are eager for the illness to pass quickly so that the baby can suffer less. So, anxious mothers and fathers may not follow the medical advice to give their babies medication, often making the following mistakes: 1, random selection of drugs, and even the adult drugs directly to reduce the amount of baby to take. 2, randomly choose the dose of drugs, to adult dose arbitrary estimates, and even some mothers wrongly believe that a little more medicine, the disease faster. 3, randomly choose several drugs together, think that the baby can be faster to get better. 4, long-term nutrition and tonic for babies, think that can increase the baby’s physical fitness, less sick. These practices are very wrong and dangerous, to know that the baby’s body is in the growth and development stage, the liver and kidney function, the central nervous system, the endocrine system are not yet well developed, to many drugs are extremely sensitive. This requires that the baby’s medication must be in accordance with medical advice, do not just give the baby medication. In order to give the baby the right medication, careful parents should know more about the basic principles of children’s medication: 1, carefully choose the variety of medication baby with the drug should pay attention to the choice, not simply with adult drugs directly reduce the dosage, should be used for pediatric drugs. It is best to use the baby used, prescribed by the hospital pediatrician, unfamiliar or baby never used the drug is best not to use. Some adult drugs can have serious side effects when used on babies, for example, when using antipyretic and analgesic drugs, some of the ingredients in the painkiller used by adults can easily cause aplastic anemia and purpura in babies; newborn babies can easily form mucous membrane erosion in the stomach when using aspirin; cold pass may cause hematuria in babies. Gentamicin can cause permanent deafness and kidney damage in children. 2. Strictly calculate the dose of medication The dose of medication for babies can generally be calculated according to the age, weight and body surface area of the child in three ways. The calculation by weight and body surface area is the most accurate, but more complicated. It is simpler to calculate by age (except for obese or thin children), i.e. the dose for children of different ages is the adult dose: 1/14 for 1 month, 1/17 for 6 months, 1/5 for 1 year, 1/4 for 2 years, 1/3 for 4 years, 2/5 for 6 years, 1/2 for 9 years and 2/3 for 14 years. it is better to take the medication according to the dose prescribed by the doctor. Attention should be paid to calculate the total dosage of the same class of drugs when combined, for example, taking pediatric aminophenanthrene granules (pediatric fast-acting cold granules) while using ibuprofen preparations to reduce fever, because both contain antipyretic and analgesic ingredients, the dosage should be reduced appropriately. 3, pay attention to control the combination of drugs baby medication varieties should be minimized, can use a drug treatment, do not use two or more drugs, the general combination of drug varieties to no more than 3 to 4 kinds of appropriate. This is because the drugs will form ligand compounds through physical adsorption or chemical complexation, the combination of improper medication will not only affect the efficacy of the drug, but also increase the incidence of adverse reactions. For example, when some antibiotics are combined with inorganic salts such as calcium, magnesium, aluminum and other antacids or iron-containing anti-anemia drugs, they will generate coordination compounds that will affect the absorption of the drug, reduce the antibacterial effect, and sometimes produce serious toxic side effects that can lead to death (for example, ceftriaxone sodium combined with calcium agents). Therefore, during the use of certain antibacterial agents, the use of calcium and other drugs should be suspended. 4, do not abuse nutritional products baby growth needs of trace elements and vitamins should be absorbed from food balanced, normal diet children generally do not need to take nutritional products. If some babies are indeed lacking in vitamins and trace elements for some reason, they should consult their doctors for proper supplementation. However, many mothers and fathers always think that there is no harm in taking more of these nutrients, so they blindly overdose their children, which in fact does not play a role in health care, but invites dysfunction of the body. Clinical data has found that supplements are not more than good, large doses of long-term use of calcium and vitamin C can cause urinary tract stones; excessive supplementation of trace elements zinc prone to sepsis; long-term use of cod liver oil can cause chronic poisoning.