Tag: Correct medication

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Three menstruations in a year, is it happiness or sadness?

Editor’s Note: Recently, a 2012 [old news]: “Australia Develops New Drugs: Can Make Women Menstruate Only Three Times a Year” went viral on the Internet. Even some medical workers were puzzled by it. Is the arrival of such a [magic drug] really a gospel for all women? Should we celebrate the whole country, [Xi Da Pu Ben]? Is this drug safe? Any side effects? Is it really good to have menstruation only three times a year? In order to find out, Clove Garden specially invited two experts (Klaith and Tian Jishun) to analyze this problem in depth from the perspectives of drug safety and obstetrics and gynecology respectively. Dear female friends, if someone recommends a new drug to you and Read More …

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Multi-effect Pills Have Good Compliance in Preventing Cardiovascular Diseases

Fixed dose compound therapy (hereinafter referred to as “multi-effect pill”) is to make antiplatelet, antihypertensive and cholesterol-lowering drugs into a single pill according to a certain dose. It is mainly used for prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and is suitable for areas where medical resources are scarce because of its relatively low cost and good compliance. First, multi-effect pills reduce systolic blood pressure and total cholesterol The results showed that the systolic blood pressure in the multi-effect pill intervention group decreased by 13.4 mmHg and that in the control group by 6.3 mmHg. The total cholesterol level in the multi-effect pill intervention group decreased by 33.3 mg/dl and that in the control group by 4.3 mg/dl. Second, multi-effect pills are Read More …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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There is no trivial matter in medication: the more expensive and new the medicine, the better.

Don’t blindly believe in new drugs People often say [every price counts], So to the extent of economic capacity, People like to buy things with high prices in order to buy good quality. However, the more expensive the medicine, the better. The price of a drug is determined by its research and development cost, raw material cost, process preparation process and sales links. It is not determined by the curative effect of drugs on diseases. Some new drugs, Due to the high cost of research and development, the pricing will be correspondingly high, but it is not necessarily better than the existing old drugs. For example, people are familiar with the old drug aspirin, large dose aspirin can relieve pain, Read More …

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Nursing and treatment of eczema is a protracted war.

Does eczema have medicine that can cut off roots? Is hormone-containing ointment really useless? Is breast milk the main cause of eczema? People ask me such questions every day on Weibo. Baby eczema has troubled millions of parents in Qian Qian. I did my best to answer countless parents’ questions about eczema. And will reply to the question and answer summary growth article, through the parents more than 40,000 times of forwarding spread to more suffering from baby eczema novice parents, has played a very good popular science effect. Now I will eczema nursing and medication knowledge to everyone to popularize, hoping to help more parents. There is no medicine to cure eczema. Eczema is high in preschool children under Read More …

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Why do pediatricians not recommend calcium supplement for children?

Some parents always ask me on Weibo, is there any difference between vitamin A + D and vitamin D supplementation for babies in what? How long will vitamin D take? In addition to vitamin D, do you need calcium? How big is the baby’s fish oil and calcium supplement? When the baby is two or three years old, many mothers have not made up for it. Why? Foreign professional pediatricians usually do not recommend infants to supplement extra calcium. To answer the above questions, Let’s explain three things first: First, domestic pediatricians recommend that babies regularly supplement not [fish oil] but [cod liver oil], [Fish oil] refers to supplements such as DHA, It is not recommended as a conventional supplement. Read More …