The drug effect is fast and slow.
When most patients are treated, They are all eager to get rid of diseases. I took medicine from a doctor. After eating for a day or two, I found that there was no obvious effect. Stop the drug, Or increase the dosage, Or dressing change, Some even go to many hospitals repeatedly. This not only wastes energy and financial resources, There may also be delays in treatment. In fact, many times the doctor’s diagnosis is clear, the treatment is also right, and the prescribed drugs are also effective. Only a few words are given to the patient: how long will it take to see the curative effect after taking the drugs? After all, the time when the drugs take effect is different, and the course of the disease is different for different diseases.
For example, drugs that eliminate symptoms work faster. Antipyretics can take effect in about 30 minutes to 2 hours. However, drugs such as antibiotics for etiological treatment take effect slowly. Because the bactericidal or bacteriostatic effect of antibiotics requires the drug to reach a certain blood drug concentration in the human body to be produced, And reaching the effective blood concentration is not as fast as expected. In addition, It will take some time for bacterial infection to be controlled. Take the most common pneumonia as an example. Even if it is determined that it is caused by bacterial infection, it will take 2-3 days to see the effect after using antibiotics. Only at this time can we roughly judge whether the type of antibiotics selected and the route of administration are correct.
The course of the disease is long and short.
In addition, every disease has its inherent development process. Some common diseases can heal themselves without treatment. It is called self-limited disease, Common diseases such as common cold (upper respiratory tract infection) and non-infectious diarrhea. This kind of disease is high in children. It usually takes about a week for the disease to improve. In the face of children’s self-limited diseases, Parents often show too much anxiety, Keep looking for [famous doctors]. In fact, There are no famous doctors who treat common diseases of children. What parents lack is the basic understanding of common diseases and the nursing knowledge of common diseases. Children’s common diseases [three points for treatment and seven points for nursing]. Children who eat well, sleep well and are in good spirits often give birth to serious diseases of what. Many pediatricians joke that they like to receive second-hand patients. Why? Because of the illness of many babies, The course of disease was 5 ~ 7 days, Many parents’ patience is 2-3 days at most, often to 4-5 days when they can’t hold on, change a doctor to show the baby again. After the treatment of the second doctor, the baby’s 2-3 days of illness will be fine. In fact, this is the natural end of the baby’s course of disease. Parents also mistakenly believe that it is the credit of the second doctor and often complain about the doctor’s fatuity before.
There is a folk saying [a hapless doctor cures a disease, The lucky doctor treated the disease], The common people put the early and late stages of the disease, They are called “sick head” and “sick tail” respectively. When people first start to see a doctor, Often [eager to get better], once there is no effect, often blame the doctor, so say [unlucky doctor cure the disease head]. However, when the condition gradually improves, go to see a doctor again, and take the medicine of the second doctor and quickly take effect. It seems that the second doctor can cure the disease. Therefore, the patient praises the second doctor for his good medical skill, which is called [lucky doctor cure the disease tail].
In addition, some diseases gradually become clear as the course of the disease progresses. For example, children have a rash. This disease is very common in babies aged 6 months to 1 year old. Before the rash occurs, the fever will be very severe. Parents see that the baby has a fever. Will take the baby to the hospital in the first place, But at this point, Because the rash hasn’t come out yet, No doctor can clearly diagnose that the baby is suffering from acute rash, Only when the disease progresses to 3-4 days, can the diagnosis be made clearly. There are also some thorny diseases that need to be eliminated continuously before the final diagnosis can be made. Most of the time, it is precisely because the newly diagnosed doctor has eliminated other diseases that the doctors who return to the clinic can give the correct diagnosis.
This is just like the classic story of eating steamed buns: a person is hungry, eating five steamed buns but not enough, and eating half of them before he is full. After he was full, he began to complain that the first five steamed buns were eaten for nothing. If he knew so, he would only eat the last half of the steamed buns. Isn’t it ridiculous? The same is true for seeing a doctor. You must not change dressing or doctor in a hurry just because you only take one or two drugs and do not see the effect.
This article is taken from the book “Ji Lianmei Talk: Chinese Should Use Drugs This Way”, which is reprinted by the author’s authorized clove garden.