Expert interview: Liu Zhenzhi, director of pharmacy department of Nanjing Integrative Medicine Hospital
Recently, Wuhan, Ms. Sun fever, headache, cough, generalized flu symptoms, in order to quickly get up does not affect the work, she went to the pharmacy to buy Tylenol (phenol aspartame), quick cold capsule Sensitive capsule), fast grams (compound paracetamol capsule) to eat these three kinds of cold medicine, triggering acute renal failure.In this regard, Nanjing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Liu Zhenzhi director of pharmacy said: 'a lot of cold patients in order to quickly The treatment of colds, that a variety of cold medicine will be mixed with the effect will be better, but I do not know some of them superimposed drug ingredients may trigger a lot of side effects.
Cold medicine most contain acetaminophen this ingredient, it can play a role in antipyretic analgesia, but if taken over, it will cause damage to the liver and kidney.Therefore, medication should look for common name or chemical name, get Qing drugs exist the same composition, to avoid repeated medication.
Liu Zhenzhi introduction, the composition of cold medicine can be divided into five categories.
1. Anti-allergy categories: including chlorpheniramine maleate (chlorpheniramine), diphenhydramine and other ingredients, mainly for the relief of runny nose, tears, sneezing and other symptoms. Such drugs can cause drowsiness, fatigue And so on, engaged in traffic driving, ascent or operation of precision instruments and other workers with caution.
2. Antipyretic and analgesic categories: including acetaminophen, aspirin, ibuprofen and other ingredients, mainly for the relief of fever, sore throat, body aches and other symptoms which acetaminophen more commonly used, but should pay attention to over-use may Cause liver and kidney damage, and even liver necrosis, renal failure.
3. Reduce nasal mucosa congestion: contains pseudoephedrine hydrochloride and other ingredients, mainly for nasal congestion, nasal mucosa congestion and other symptoms of these drugs in addition to oral, but also direct nasal or nasal spray, but the general should not be used more than 7 days.
4. Antitussive: ingredients include dextromethorphan, etc., mainly for cough symptoms such as cough by inhibiting the central nervous center of the antitussive effect of central antitussive drugs will inhibit the discharge of sputum, sputum volume with caution.
5. Expectorant categories: components include acetylcysteine, ambroxol hydrochloride, guaiphenesin, carbocisteine, etc., mainly for sputum and more difficult to cough out of the cold symptoms.
Medication is no small matter, the patient purchase of drugs to recognize the above ingredients, according to the reasonable use of drugs, to avoid duplication of ingredients.In addition, many flu patients think of proprietary Chinese medicine to catch a cold than Western medicine side effects .From the Chinese point of view, you must syndrome differentiation, flu There are cold and hot points, if the choice of proprietary Chinese medicine is not on the syndrome, often aggravate the condition, prolong the course, resulting in other health problems.
