How to give your baby safe medication?

The baby's immune system is low, and it is common to be sick. Although the level of knowledge of parents continues to increase, and the popularity of medical and health knowledge continues to spread, it is often reported that parents have to know how to give their baby safe medication because of adverse drug reactions caused by abuse of drugs by parents.

1, correctly distinguish prescription drugs and non-prescription drugs.

Prescription drugs: Drugs that must be prescribed, purchased, and used only by prescription of a practicing physician or practicing assistant physician; such drugs usually have certain toxicities and other potential effects. There are special requirements for the method and timing of the medication. They must be directed by a doctor. Use it.

Non-prescription drugs: drugs that are self-selected, self-purchased, and self-administered by the patient according to the drug label. This type of drug has fewer side effects and lighter effects, and it is also easy to detect, does not cause drug resistance, addiction, and has little interaction with other drugs. It has been used clinically for many years and has a positive effect. Non-prescription drugs are mainly used for mild, stable, and well-diagnosed diseases.

Prescription drugs are generally administered under the guidance of a doctor, and only parents who follow the doctor's advice will generally not make major mistakes. However, for over-the-counter drugs, the text of the drug labeling should be carefully read and used strictly in accordance with the instructions. Second, parents should constantly strengthen their knowledge of self-diagnosis and knowledge about safe drug use. Finally, there is no need to use drugs without disease.

2. Look at adult medicines and pediatric medicines correctly.

Most parents of children consider their children to be smaller versions of adults. They think that adult medicine and medicine for children are only different in dose size. As long as attention is paid to reduction, adults' medicine can be used to treat children. However, children’s tissues and organs are in the stage of maturation and development. The development of the nervous system, endocrine system and many organs is not yet complete, the detoxification and detoxification functions of the liver and kidneys, and the role of the blood-brain barrier are not sound. Some drugs are used in infants and young children. Absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion in the body are significantly different from those in adults. Therefore, infants are different from children in the use of drugs, and children are more different from adults.

It is recommended that after the child becomes ill, parents should give children the choice of child-specific pharmaceutical treatments such as oral liquids and granules. These medicines are not only convenient to take but also suitable for children and relatively safe to take.

3, rational look at Chinese herbal medicines.

Many parents believe that children taking Chinese medicines are safer, have no adverse reactions, and are often taken lightly. In fact, many Chinese patent medicines are not suitable for children. Such as Huo Xiang Zheng Qi water, because of alcohol, so children disabled; Ren Dan because of containing cinnabar, so infants and children Jifu; Ma Ren Runchang pills, because it can cause diarrhea, children should not be long-term use; Liushen pill of realgar, its main The component is arsenic trisulfide, which is easily decomposed and oxidized when exposed to heat, becoming highly toxic arsenic trioxide, commonly known as arsenic, whose toxic effects can affect the nervous system, digestive system, hematopoietic system, and urinary system.

4, correctly give children medication.

Read the medicine package and instructions before taking the medicine, and follow the instructions carefully to give the child enough doses of medicine; use a special dropper, measuring cup or container provided with the medicine to give the child medication, never use a dropper or measuring cup of other medicine Feed different medications; don't give your child medicines lying on the floor to prevent suffocation or suffocation; do not use beverages to give medicines to children; also, pay attention to the time and interval between children taking medicines.