Eight Precautions to Be Mastered in Safe Medication

Studies have shown that, About 40% of the people have had the experience of taking the wrong medicine, sometimes taking the wrong medicine is not because the doctor prescribed the wrong medicine or bought the wrong medicine, but often because the patient himself was negligent. In 2012 alone, I came into contact with many cases of drug errors in my work. Here, I sum up 7 problems that everyone must pay attention to before taking drugs. First, pay attention to distinguish tablets with the same color, shape and size or similar ones. Once, I was on the night shift, A patient called, Said he just mistook chlorpheniramine tablets for prednisone tablets, Twelve tablets were taken by mistake, Ask what to Read More …

Eight Common Mistakes in Medication in Chinese

The statistical analysis results of [2013 National Safe Drug Use Month and Drug Safety Network Knowledge Competition] published by China Food and Drug Administration show that, Ninety percent of the Chinese people lack understanding of how to use drugs safely and rationally. The problems with an error rate of more than 50% in the competition are concentrated in the following eight aspects, covering the following aspects: drug safety for infants, drug use during pregnancy, drug taboos and adverse reactions, drug storage and usage, etc. 51.07% of netizens lacked understanding of the careful use of antibiotics such as chloramphenicol in newborns. Chloramphenicol is mainly inactivated by liver metabolism. As newborns, Especially in premature infants, Poor excretion capacity, Excessive doses can cause Read More …

Antibiotics Available for Treating Baby Otitis Media

The baby is crying and scratching his ears. He may have otitis media. Acute otitis media in infants is a common infectious disease. The incidence rate is second only to cold clinically, and it is also the most common complication after cold. Statistics from the United States show that acute otitis media is the disease that American pediatricians prescribe the most antibiotics. Many mothers may have such doubts, the middle ear is hidden in the ear, how did the germs get in? The answer is simple: The nasopharynx and the ear are connected through the eustachian tube, The eustachian tube of infants is especially short, It is also relatively wide and flat. The nozzle is usually open, And just communicates Read More …

Five True Scriptures to Prevent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

Apart from vaccination, other drugs cannot effectively prevent hand-foot-mouth disease. Parents often leave messages to me on Weibo to consult on the prevention of hand-foot-mouth disease. Some people ask: [A colleague told me the way to prevent hand-foot-mouth disease: after the baby comes home from playing outside, he washes his hands, washes his face, changes his clothes, and then sprays him with children’s throat-opening sword spray. Said this is what the pediatrician said. Can throat-opening sword spray do this? Is it appropriate to spray this prevention even if there is no disease? [Some people also asked: [Is it safe for the baby’s kindergarten to spray a medicine called ribavirin into the baby’s mouth every morning to prevent hand-foot-mouth disease? Problems Read More …

Drugs are not the first choice to relieve constipation in babies.

Drug dependence hurts more than disease. One day, a mother who bought medicine came to the pharmacy window. She wants to buy 30 kesselos for her two-year-old baby. I asked her why she bought so many, She said that her daughter would not defecate without Kaiseru, You need to use a dose of Kaiselu every day, It has been in use for more than a month, I plan to continue using it. Now the little girl will take the initiative to ask her mother to use a Kaisailu every night before going to bed, otherwise she will be agitated and difficult to sleep. I asked her if she had taken her baby to see a doctor and whether she had Read More …

Stay away from three types of drugs to give your baby the best protection.

During early pregnancy, 99% of the drugs apply to the “all or nothing” theory I mentioned earlier. It may not cause harm to the fetus, However, There are indeed several special drugs that do not apply to this theory. These drugs include ribavirin and isotretinoin (formerly known as: Isoretinoic acid) and vaccines against measles, rubella and mumps. Due to the long clearance half-life of these special drugs in the human body, It takes a long time, sometimes even several months, for the body to completely expel the drugs from the body. At the same time, these drugs are clearly teratogenic, so not only pregnant mothers but also pregnant women must not contact them. Otherwise, drug residues in the body will Read More …

Truth: Is drinking purified water harmful to health?

There is a widespread saying: Because purified water lacks trace elements, drinking purified water will lead to lack of nutrition and damage health. Is this really the case? If you believe it, would you believe it if someone said [because bananas do not contain carotene, eating bananas will harm your health]? Drink water to replenish water, not nutrition. It is true that pure water lacks essential minerals for human body, but drinking water is to supplement water, not nutrition. Nutrients needed by human body can be ingested through other foods, and other diets and fruits and vegetables contain far more nutrients than drinking water. There are many sources of human drinking water. As people living in cities, drinking water mainly Read More …

A Life-Saving Technique to Save Millions of Living Beings: Oral Rehydration

Each of us will probably experience diarrhea, However, the progress of medicine has made us no longer have the fear of dying from diarrhea. However, only a few decades ago, the death caused by diarrhea was still a very serious health threat in developing countries. The opportunity to reverse this situation came from the emergence of an unusually simple treatment method-oral rehydration (ORS). However, behind this seemingly simple treatment plan, there are many unknown twists and turns. The beginning of this story begins with a group of young researchers who devoted themselves to finding effective treatments for cholera-like diarrhea more than 50 years ago. Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease caused by Vibrio cholerae, Due to the massive loss of Read More …

There is no trivial matter in taking medicine: changing the dosage casually is tantamount to taking health as a joke.

Many people have misconceptions about the dosage of drugs. Although the drug instructions say several times a day in black and white, A few tablets at a time, But they don’t care, They mistakenly believe that increasing the dosage of drugs will enhance the efficacy of drugs, So when suffering from illness, he gave himself [strong medicine], He took two tablets of what he was supposed to take, He will take three tablets if he should have taken two tablets. Some patients will also think that [the medicine is three times poisonous], Just take some medicine to relieve some symptoms. Why do you still let your body bear unnecessary toxic and side effects? I know a nursing mother like this. Read More …

There is no trivial matter in taking drugs: drugs take effect quickly and slowly, and don’t expect [drugs to cure diseases]

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, Read More …