1, how to use medicine for infants and young children
I'm not sure. Ask the doctor first. If you can't clearly judge your child's condition, you'd better consult a pediatrician first. Listening to other people's medication advice easily may bring risks to children. When a doctor recommends a drug to a child, if there is something he doesn't understand, he should ask in person in time to avoid questions and problems when using it.
What can I say? Safety is the premise. Please keep the medicine out of the reach of children. Babies can start crawling as early as 5~6 months, so it is necessary to prevent children from taking drugs by mistake as soon as possible. At the same time, read the instructions carefully and make clear the storage conditions, such as storage in the dark.
Breastfeeding, don't use some medicine. When a new breast-feeding mother needs medication, she should know whether the medication will enter breast milk and affect her children. Whether it is prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs or supplements, it is best to confirm with your doctor in advance. Iodine, tetracycline, sulfanilamide and other drugs. Obviously affected breastfeeding. But don't stop taking medicine because you are worried about this, so as not to affect the treatment.
Feed correctly and use matching equipment. When giving medicine to your baby, you should use a suitable drug delivery device. If oral syringes are recommended, do not use ordinary spoons. For example, the capacity of a domestic spoon is about 15 ml, which may directly exceed the prescribed dosage, and it is difficult to ensure that the dosage is equal every time.
In addition, the two experts also suggested that new mothers should ensure adequate rest and nutrition to ensure a healthy body and a clear state of mind.
2. The misunderstanding of children's medication.
1, Preventive medication: Parents always want their children to grow up healthily. Some parents believe too much in advertisements and drug price concessions and blindly give drugs to their children for prevention.
2. overdose: most parents don't know much about pharmacy, so they let their children overdose, leading to acute or cumulative drug poisoning.
3. Unauthorized use of antibiotics: Some parents find that their children have a cold and fever and blindly use antibiotics, resulting in the following consequences:
Toxic reaction of 1: such as abuse of streptomycin and gentamicin, causing deafness.
Allergic reaction: Penicillin can cause severe anaphylactic shock, and sulfonamides can cause allergic skin rash.
Double infection: thrush and fungal enteritis are the most common, and drugs are difficult to control.
4. Abuse of antipyretics: Some antipyretics have obvious inhibitory effects on children's respiratory center. Due to the lack of medical knowledge, parents are eager to slow down their children's illness, and children use antipyretics at will as soon as they have a fever, which leads to collapse and shock.
5. Abuse of antidiarrheal drugs: The incidence of diarrhea in children is high, and appropriate measures such as liquid therapy, diet therapy and infection control should be given according to the degree of dehydration and electrolyte disorder.
However, some parents take antidiarrheal drugs indiscriminately. Although diarrhea was relieved after use, the toxin increased due to intestinal absorption, causing systemic poisoning symptoms.
6. Use adult drugs: Some parents will prescribe antibiotics and cold medicines for adults. Although the dosage is halved, it is not suitable.
Because the enzyme system and metabolic system of drug detoxification are not mature in the process of children's growth and development, many drugs are not suitable for children. For example, norfloxacin can cause joint diseases in children and affect growth and development; Diclofenac, the active ingredient in Ganmaotong, is harmful to the kidney and can cause acute thrombocytopenia.
7. Change the dosage form at will: Some parents often pour out the contents of capsules that adults feed their children, or change the injection to oral administration for their children. In this way, the original dosage form of the drug is changed at will, the function of the drug is reduced, the toxic and side effects of the drug are increased, and some even cause adverse consequences.
The birth of a baby is a happy thing for a family. When the baby changes seasons, it is particularly easy to catch a cold and get sick. Children are sick with a cold, and parents are also very anxious. If you have a cold, you need to take medicine. Parents should first teach their children to overcome the rejection of drugs, and then pay attention to the dosage of drugs and dietary taboos.