CCTV’s 2016 advertisement for children’s medication, Touched the hearts of countless parents. Although this is a marketing video, some of its viewpoints also lack scientific basis, but regardless of the routine of drug dealers, this video also does reflect some problems existing in the current drug use for children. Taking this opportunity, Ding Ma couldn’t help but want to talk more about the drug use for children with his parents.
There are more than 3,500 kinds of pharmaceutical preparations in our country, of which only 60 kinds are for children. Among the only 60 kinds of special drugs for children, there are also many cases of wrong use.
According to the results of China’s 6th census, the population aged 0-14 in China is about 220 million, accounting for 16.60% of the total population. Due to improper medication, about 30,000 children in China fall into a silent world every year. It is even more difficult to count the injuries to liver, kidney and nervous system.
And illness and medication are things everyone will experience. Children’s immune system is not yet mature, and illness will be more frequent than adults. Don’t be careless in giving children medication. Therefore, parents should read the following carefully.
If you catch a cold and take advantage of the mild symptoms to take medicine quickly, can you overcome it?
The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is-no research can support this statement.
The common cold is a disease that can be cured by itself, and various cold medicines are mainly aimed at various symptoms of the cold. However, authoritative institutions such as FDA, American Academy of Pediatrics, British Drug and Health Administration and Health Canada have clearly pointed out that cold medicines are not recommended for children under the age of six.
The composition and content of these drugs vary greatly. There is no evidence to prove that they have definite effect on the treatment of upper respiratory tract infection in children. On the contrary, it is found that they may cause obvious side effects in children under 6 years old.
In addition to the common cold, there are many other daily diseases, which can be cured by themselves. Without taking medicine, the baby will also use his resistance to conquer the diseases.
In order not to get sick, take some medicine to prevent it first?
I remember a few years ago there was a news that kindergartens gave children a collective dose of ribavirin to prevent colds, which shocked the society at that time.
Not to mention the moral ethics of this matter, it is simply that the Chinese people are too short of common sense of drugs. Seeing the word “virus”, they take it for granted that they can deal with colds.
In fact, apart from vaccines, there is no medicine to predict! Defense! Feeling! Take it!
Many people like to use isatis root and so on, and there is no evidence to show that it can prevent colds. Even vaccines are only aimed at individual types of influenza, while the common cold is ineffective.
In kindergarten collective life, or in the season of high incidence of diseases, the baby is easy to be recruited. Can you just watch the baby get sick?
Vaccines for common diseases of young children such as rotavirus and hand-foot-mouth disease have been put on the market one after another. Conditional parents can take their children to the preventive health care clinic to consult doctors and achieve the purpose of prevention by injecting vaccines.
In addition, physical measures can also be taken to reduce the possibility of diseases, such as frequent hand washing, more exercise, frequent ventilation, balanced diet, etc.
Pure natural, non-toxic, no side effects?
One of the biggest lies in the advertising industry is that it is purely natural, non-toxic and has no side effects. However, in fact, more and more medical and pharmaceutical studies have found that many traditional Chinese herbal medicines and proprietary Chinese medicines have certain toxicity, and long-term administration will lead to liver and kidney injury.
Children’s liver and kidney systems are not well developed and have extremely poor drug tolerance, which is more likely to cause serious adverse reactions and side effects.
Some parents will say that the list of adverse reactions on the western medicine instructions looks scary. But do you know? Some drug instructions only have the word [unclear] for adverse reactions, which does not indicate what adverse reactions, but it does not mean that there are no adverse reactions. The truth is that there is no relevant research and data in this regard.
Therefore, don’t think that [unclear] is safe. The risk of [unclear] is greater than stating the probability and situation of adverse reactions.
Is Haitao Drug More Reliable?
The domestic drug market is relatively chaotic, making many people feel that drugs in developed countries are better.
But parents should ask themselves two questions before choosing Haitao drugs:
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What is my foreign language translation ability? Have you ever learned a foreign language for medicine?
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What is my knowledge of medicine? Can I deal with problems freely?
If the above two points are not available, parents are advised not to use sea-panning drugs for their children without authorization. Even if you are satisfied with the above two points, look at the following one.
Many drugs need special storage environment. Who knows it will experience some what when it travels so far across the sea? Security is really hard to guarantee.
Once there is a problem, safeguarding rights is basically a fable.
Moreover, there are also fake products abroad, and purchasing on behalf of others may also buy fake products. Among the large number of fake products previously found in Japan, there are children’s drugs.
Immune booster? Mostly pseudoscience
When a child is ill, adults feel uncomfortable. Parents with poor psychological quality are often on the verge of collapse. If only the child had stronger resistance, it would not be so easy to get sick.
As a result, preparations/drugs claiming to enhance immunity (including vitamin preparations, dietary supplements, homeopathic drugs, echinacea, bacterial lysates and probiotics, etc.) are widely welcomed.
However, behind these drugs, most of them lack corresponding evidence support and are usually not supported by peer-reviewed clinical studies.
In fact, there are many behavioral factors that can affect the normal function of the immune system: improper sleep, less exercise, excessive mental stress, poor diet and other unhealthy lifestyles. Parents may as well start from these aspects to improve their children’s resistance.
Adult medicine, half for children?
Children are not reduced versions of adults. Children’s organs and systems are not yet mature and have their own characteristics for drug absorption, metabolism and excretion.
The liver’s ability to detoxify drugs is immature, the kidney’s ability to remove drugs is also poor, and the blood-brain barrier function of children’s brain is not fully developed, which cannot prevent some drugs from damaging the brain. Therefore, more caution should be exercised in children’s medication.
As for the medication experience and habitual medication of neighbors and relatives, there is no scientific basis.
Therefore, parents should never give their children adult drugs without authorization. Under special circumstances, they should also consult a doctor or pharmacist for a few more words.
Learn to Read Drug Instructions
Drug instructions are the most authoritative medication basis that we can learn from. Once the instructions are marked with tips for children to ban or use with caution, Or there is a lack of corresponding indications, usage and dosage for children, or it is written [lack of efficacy and safety data for children under 16 years old], or a simple sentence [children should reduce it at their discretion], parents must be careful not to use it for children without authorization.
When using antibacterial drugs and hormone drugs according to the doctor’s advice, you cannot adjust the dosage or stop using them.
Try to convert the dosage of drugs to children according to the weight of kilograms marked in the book, because the weight of children of the same age will vary greatly, and the method of converting the dosage of drugs by age is not scientific.
When using multiple drugs, especially compound preparations, the drug ingredients should be carefully checked to avoid repeated use of drug ingredients and thus increase drug toxicity.
In addition, parents should be reminded to pay attention to the fact that some drug instructions are marked with daily dosage, which should be divided by the number of times of medication per day to avoid overdose. If you have any questions, consult pharmacists or doctors in time.
At the critical time, one should not be secretive about medical treatment.
After watching so much, parents can’t help dying. Then when you get sick, can’t you take any medicine and only have resistance?
This Ding Ma really didn’t say it! In case of problems that cannot be solved, we must take the baby to see a doctor in time. Under the correct guidance of professionals, give the baby rational drug use, which is still our best helper when we are ill.
Eva will inevitably get sick when she eats coarse cereals. As she grows older, her baby’s resistance will become better and better, and then she will seldom get sick.
Drugs are a double-edged sword. Parents should reserve more common sense of drugs. Calm mind and calm response are the magic weapons to help the baby recover.