Tag: Medication safety

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How to Choose Children’s Antipyretic Drugs

Parents asked: At present, there are many antipyretic drugs for children, and adverse reactions are often mentioned. How should parents choose? Should we pay attention to some what in use? The pharmacist replied: First of all, rising body temperature is a natural defensive response of the human body. It can increase the synthesis of human body, enhance the activity of phagocytes, and sometimes the change of body temperature is also helpful for disease diagnosis and judgment after healing. Therefore, not all children must use drugs immediately as soon as they have a fever. In general, children with low fever (< 38.0 ℃) do not advocate the use of drugs to cool down, but should adopt physical cooling method. What are Read More …

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Shocking pediatric poison

According to statistics, there are hundreds of Chinese patent medicines containing cinnabar and realgar in the domestic drug market. Science has proved that cinnabar and realgar are toxic to human body, but their legendary curative effects have not yet been confirmed by science. Instead of calling them [medicinal materials], they are rather [poisons]. What is most shocking is that these [poisons] containing cinnabar and realgar are not only taken in large quantities by adults, but also widely used as pediatric drugs on children who have no choice. The following are some research materials on cinnabar, realgar and related proprietary Chinese medicines: Cinnabar Also known as cinnabar, cinnabar, It is a natural ore of mercury sulfide. Cinnabar is a very important Read More …

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Sampling unqualified cosmetics

Recently, the State Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has carried out national supervision and sampling inspection on cosmetics claiming acne/anti-acne and whitening/freckle removal. Six batches of products have detected banned substances, The detailed list is as follows: 1. Reasons for unqualified Chel’s Snow Salt Anti-acne and Anti-printing Ointment: Metronidazole was detected, Suspected of illegal production. Hygiene license number: GD • FDA (2006) Weizhuangzhun Zi No. 29-XK-2843 Sampled Unit Address: Jiangsu Yonghui Supermarket Co., Ltd. Wuxi Zhenghe Avenue Branch, Z-B1-A2, Supermarket Building, Huishan Wanda Commercial Plaza, 321 Wu Yun Road, Huishan District. Reasons for Unqualified Miao Laozu Anti-Seal Essence: Chloramphenicol was detected, Suspected of counterfeiting. Hygiene license number: GD • FDA (2003) Weizhuangzhun Zi No. 29-XK-2487 Sampled Unit Address: Qidong Miao Read More …

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How is it safest to take birth control pills?

It is easy to turn into the corner pharmacy to buy a box of contraceptives, but it is not that simple to start taking contraceptives. Any responsible man cannot turn a blind eye to women’s worries about contraceptives. So, how should contraceptives be taken safest? First, short-term, long-term and urgent, which one do you eat? 1. Short-acting contraceptives The success rate is 99%, and the medicine needs to be taken regularly. If one tablet is missed, one tablet needs to be taken within 12 hours. Common commodities include: deoxygestenethinylestradiol tablets, levonorgestrel ethinylestradiol tablets, drospirone ethinylestradiol tablets, compound norethindrone, compound megestrol, compound levonorgestrel tablets, etc. How to take it: the instructions will be clearly written, starting from the day of menstruation, Read More …

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The baby has toothache, so medication should be cautious.

The American Food and Drug Safety Association (FDA) mentioned in a recently released drug safety newsletter that The 2% lidocaine gel used for oral anesthesia should not be used to relieve toothache in infants due to the serious risks it may cause. The agency said: [Oral treatment of toothache with 2% lidocaine gel is not approved, and infants may cause serious harm or even death due to the use of this drug.] This year, FDA evaluated 22 related cases of oral 2% lidocaine gel used in infants to treat oral diseases (including toothache and stomatitis) or swallowing excessive 2% lidocaine gel by mistake, and reported serious side effects (including death) in the above cases. FDA warns: [Local analgesics and other Read More …

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How to Use Drugs Correctly

I often receive complaints from everyone. What else can [family medication] do besides checking the instructions? You may not know whether this App is used in what. I’ll give you a detailed explanation today, just once. Even if you think it is an advertisement, please watch it patiently. It will be useful to you. Judging from everyone’s usual questions, the following questions are the most concerned: How to use medicine for cold and fever? Which medicines cannot be taken at the same time? Which medicines cannot be taken by pregnant women? Which medicines cannot be used by children and the elderly? What if the old man has hypertension and diabetes but always forgets to take medicine? Which drugs are unsafe? Read More …

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The Easy Mistake of Giving Children Medicine

Not long ago, I read a report on drug safety for children published by the Global Organization for Child Safety, June 2014. Some of the data in the report are amazing. 1. 86.4% of the children were poisoned at home. 2. Among the causes of poisoning among children, the proportion of drug poisoning has increased year by year, from 53% in 2012 to 64% in 2013. 3. In 2013, Beijing Children’s Hospital collected 369 cases of children taking drugs by mistake. 4. Among the causes of drug poisoning in children, there are mainly children taking it by mistake, adults taking it by mistake, and adults taking excessive doses. The following figure: 5. 69% of parents usually put the medicine where Read More …

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Be cautious when injecting botulinum toxin, hyaluronic acid and other beauty products.

Recently, the food and drug regulatory authorities have cracked many cases of selling and using illegal drugs and medical devices in beauty salons. Take Zhejiang [March 13] case of manufacturing and selling fake drugs and unlicensed medical devices as an example: Suspect Wang Mou Opens Medical Beauty Center in Ningbo, Purchase botulinum toxin injection marked [BOTOX] [Hengli] and hyaluronic acid injection marked [Restylan] from criminals in Shenyang, Hebei, Shenzhen and other places. After investigation, More than 50,000 bottles (branches) of 77 varieties involved in this case are fake drugs or unregistered medical devices. Sixty suspects have been arrested and fake dens and sales networks distributed in more than 20 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have been destroyed. Through sorting out Read More …

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Placebos cannot cure diseases, and placebos may also [be harmful]

Placebo agent is already familiar to many people. Most of the understanding of placebo comes from [randomized double-blind controlled] experimental settings in medicine. Placebo and placebo effect have caused great discussion and controversy throughout the history of medicine, and have continued to this day. What are the characteristics of placebo effect? As a substance that should not produce any biological effects, it works through what? What factors can affect the placebo effect? Is placebo therapy clinically and ethically appropriate for patients? The history of placebo The word Placebo comes from Latin and its original meaning is [to make pleasure]. It first appeared in the Great Dictionary of New Medicine published in England in 1785 and has clearly pointed out that Read More …

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Right and wrong about metformin

Not long ago, the Endocrine Credit Association of the Chinese Medical Association organized a number of clinical experts and pharmaceutical experts to formulate and publish the “Consensus of Experts on Clinical Application of Metformin” to guide Chinese clinicians and patients to correctly understand and rationally use metformin. It is not common for an authoritative academic group, a group of top medical experts, to issue < < consensus > > for a single drug. Today’s free time, let’s also talk about metformin. Before the text, let’s dispel the doubts that some people, especially conspiracy theorists, may have: [Is there any what issue in recommending a medicine with such great fanfare? ] In fact, metformin is an old drug that has been Read More …