The medicine Dr. Clove is going to say today is ribavirin.
Ribavirin is commonly known as ribavirin, because it bears the word “virus” and misleads most people, who think it is a drug to deal with the virus.
In fact, such medication is a big mistake!
Today, Dr. Clove joined everyone to listen to Mr. Ji Lianmei’s explanation.
The beginning of the story
After seeing a patient in the morning, I was not very happy all day, not because I was angry with the patient, but because I felt sorry for what happened to the patient.
The 33-year-old female patient was diagnosed pregnant 11 days ago (February 21).
This is a happy thing, but worries follow, because the patient took the medicine without knowing the pregnancy.
During the 10 days from February 2 to February 12, because nasal obstruction and runny nose were diagnosed as colds, more than a dozen drugs were used, including Favelin.
Are these drugs safe for the fetus? Will it lead to deformity? Can you keep this baby?
With these questions and the instructions and outer packaging of some drugs, the patient made an appointment with my consultation clinic.
Ribavirin is teratogenic?
In the clinic, I analyzed and evaluated the possible effects of each drug one by one according to the patient’s gestational age, drug variety and dosage, and drug-related metabolism and clearance information.
When I analyzed ribavirin injection, I was very helpless.
The patient was injected with ribavirin for two consecutive days from February 11 to 12, and ribavirin has been clinically proved to be teratogenic.
The first label in the drug instructions is:
Teratogenicity to fetus!
Even exposure to therapeutic doses as low as 1% will have obvious possibility of causing fetal malformation.
It takes a long time to metabolize and clear up in the body, and just right is the teratogenic sensitive period of fetal development in her womb!
I can’t make a decision on whether to keep the baby for her, but I have to tell her that the teratogenic risk is very high, which is really a frustrating announcement.
What makes me feel even more depressed is that I have been popularizing science for five years, and I have also popularized science for five years. Women of childbearing age should not use this medicine. It seems that it has no effect at all. However, some people still find pregnancy after using this medicine and have to terminate pregnancy.
Can ribavirin cure colds?
Don’t cure the cold! Don’t cure the cold! Don’t cure the cold! Say important things three times.
Because the common name contains the word “virus”, it misled most people.
Thinking that it works for what virus, he abused this drug to treat diseases caused by various virus infections.
Abuse of it to treat colds is the most common. Tablets, granules, dispersible tablets, aerosols and oral liquids are various dosage forms, and a random search on the Internet can show a bunch of them.
People can buy it casually in pharmacies and use it to cure colds, but the truth is that it does not cure colds.
However, ribavirin does not cure colds. What’s the use of ribavirin?
Ribavirin in what?
Ribavirin has a narrow scope of application and is only used in the following two cases:
- Treatment of severe lower respiratory tract infection caused by respiratory syncytial virus; Combined use with interferon in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C.
Article 1 Special attention should be paid to the fact that the common cold is an upper respiratory tract infection and is generally not caused by respiratory syncytial virus. Therefore, ribavirin should not be abused to avoid stepping on mined areas without knowing it and causing regret.
Dr. Clove hopes that everyone can share this article with friends around him and remind everyone (especially pregnant women) to use ribavirin with caution to avoid tragedy.