It is easy to find that major children’s hospitals are overcrowded, and almost every parent has experienced the problem of difficulty in seeing a doctor, waiting 3-5 hours for an emergency room, and crying in the infusion rooms, with cobwebs of infusion bottles hanging everywhere. Why are there so many patients in every children’s hospital? Who is the culprit? And who is screwing up the children’s bodies is everyone’s confusion! What’s wrong with our hospitals? What is wrong with our children in this day and age?
Many people will say, “I basically did not have any infusions or injections when I was a child, and I only had my first infusion when I went to college. Nowadays, many children come to the hospital for infusions just like going to the mall.” It all boils down to poor health!
Drug abuse is the culprit
Over-medication, drug abuse! Foreign countries are heavily checked for careful use of drugs, and domestic is not checked for drug abuse. It’s easy to buy a gun in the U.S., hard to buy antibiotics, and the opposite is true in China. In the long run, antibiotic abuse is much more harmful than guns. Some doctors in China are driven by profit to give children large doses of the latest and most expensive antibiotics, and the rate of antibiotic use among hospitalized children is as high as 80%, which is not the case in any other country in the world. According to statistics, China is the world’s largest infusion country, and the average Chinese person hangs 8 bottles of water per year, far higher than the international level of 2.5-3.3 bottles. If this situation is not changed, the Chinese nation may become a “drug-resistant family” and return to the dark ages before the discovery of antibiotics, which would be an absolute disaster!
The large number of infusions and antibiotics given to the normal beneficial flora in the body is a cruel and inhumane massacre, strictly speaking it is a willing “suicide” act. Foreign cold and fever, doctors generally do not give drugs, go home to drink more water, sweating, more rest on the line. Although the country does not necessarily apply this way, but the abuse of drugs should not be allowed.
Many parents of children are the “pushers” of drug abuse. Some parents of children always demand the most expensive and latest drugs, demand immediate cooling of the child, strongly demand infusions, demand hormones or else they think the doctor is low and irresponsible. According to a survey by the World Health Organization, 1/3 of patients worldwide die from irrational use of medication rather than the disease itself. Irrational use of medication has become the number four killer in the world today.
I understand the urgency of the parents of children seeking medical treatment, but I am saddened by the lack of basic common sense of many people! Being sick is scary, but what is scarier than being sick is ignorance!
Both doctors and patients need to change their mindset
Doctors and patients need to change their mindset. Information between doctors and patients is not equal, the doctor knows the patient does not know; even if the communication, some patients listened to it is not acceptable. This is mainly because of the mutual trust is not enough; plus individual doctors have interest claims, also let parents have doubts. Moreover, it is difficult to explain to the parents of children who have a cold or fever that can be treated without medication, or children whose constitution has changed and whose condition will be delayed without medication, within a few minutes.
Changing the status quo of drug abuse is a systematic project. Doctors have an obligation to see patients, but also have an obligation to popularize science. Hospitals must return to the public good, not just focus on immediate benefits, or at least hold more public lectures. Doctors have the knowledge of the disease, to be passed on to patients.
Children are sick, as parents must not panic. The general wind-cold cold, a slightly stronger child will have sneezing, runny nose process, then drink ginger soup sweat, or drink some hot water, go out for a run, are beneficial to recovery. If proper measures are not given, the throat may swell up every other day and then the fever will come next. A child with a slightly weaker constitution may have a swollen throat and fever right away. Weak children can usually do some slow exercises. Children under 2 years old are better off not taking western cold medicine because it has not done clinical pharmacology for children under 2 years old.
Chinese medicine is a good choice
Some parents worry about the efficacy of herbal medicine and the safety of herbal medicine. Actually, it is not. For example, for non-infectious, viral fevers, TCM has very good results. If there is no bacterial infection in the finger blood test, the child’s fever may be a cold, or it may be a fever from eating too much food, or it may be a summer fever. Chinese medicine to reduce fever can choose sweating, laxative, pediatric massage three aspects, Chinese medicine can eat some Xiao Chai Hu, but also can use antelope horn scraping silk boiled water to reduce fever.
”It’s medicine three times poisonous”, some Chinese medicines are also toxic. Most western drugs are chemically synthesized and more toxic than Chinese medicine. But Chinese medicine is about balance, not harming the body, not losing strength, not by killing the pathogenic bacteria, but by improving the patient’s own immunity to achieve the purpose of the cure. Chinese medicine advocates “medicine and food in the same source”, such as yam, which can be eaten as a vegetable in general, but can be used in medicine to strengthen the spleen. Chinese medicine is a personalized treatment that varies from person to person. The same cough, such as wind-cold cough, with warm lung phlegm medicine; such as wind-heat cough, the use of Sichuan shellfish Sydney such cold nature of the food herbs.
The main reason for the lack of development of Chinese medicine is the low price, Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine pricing is too low, does not reflect the value of Chinese medicine. Value-oriented makes professionals reluctant to engage in Chinese medicine industry. The lack of successors has led to the fact that much of the essence of TCM is being lost.
Care should beware of misconceptions
1. Eating too finely. Fine feeding causes children to lack minerals and vitamins, which can be obtained from coarse foods.
2, eat too much. “For a small child to be safe, always bring three points of hunger and cold.” Eat too much, will make the child’s spleen and stomach bad, eat bad and then want to regulate it is not easy, the child hurt the spleen and stomach, either too thin, or too fat.
3, wear too thick. Children should not be afraid of wind and cold, more sunshine, more exercise. When sleeping can not cover too thick, or hot stirred off, more likely to catch a cold, the usual activities to reduce clothing, activities need to wipe off the sweat in time to change into clean underwear.
4, snacks are too messy. Especially pigmented food, often eaten is toxic to children’s health. The kind of flowery green pouches packaged snacks have coloring, which is a trigger for tics and ADHD. Children with ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome, one because they watch TV, play games, and then because they eat too much pigment.
5, toys are too dirty. Many toys are substandard and bad for children’s health, especially some colorful paints, play-doh, etc.. Children in such an environment for a long time, easy to allergic.
6, too much pressure. A family of a child, the child’s success, the whole family success; child failure, the whole family failure, so the child must succeed, the pressure is too much.