Ding Dang heard teacher Ji Lianmei share a sad story. The main culprit of the tragedy is the medicine we want to say:
Ribavirin, commonly known as ribavirin.
Because the common name contains the word “virus”, it misled most people and led to misuse. Causing serious side effects, even like the hero in 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.
This is a happy thing, but worries follow, because the patient took the medicine without knowing the pregnancy.
In the 10 days after the diagnosis, more than a dozen drugs, including ribavirin, were used because nasal obstruction and runny nose were diagnosed as colds.
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.
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 remove in the body, and it takes several weeks to remove it from the body, and this few weeks is just the right time, which is the teratogenic sensitive period of fetal development in the patient’s 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. Still, some people find pregnancy after using this medicine and have to face the difficult choice of whether to keep the fetus.
More importantly, is ribavirin such a use?
Can ribavirin cure colds?
Don’t cure the cold! Don’t cure the cold! Don’t cure the cold! Say important things three times.
Don’t abuse this drug to treat diseases caused by various viral infections just because it is commonly known as [ribavirin] and thinks it works for what virus.
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.
Oh, ribavirin doesn’t cure colds. What’s the use of it?
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.
The first is to pay special attention to the fact that the common cold is an upper respiratory tract infection and is rarely caused by respiratory syncytial virus.
Therefore, do not abuse ribavirin. In this way, we will not step on mined areas without knowing it, causing regret.