It is understood that the use of drugs is unscientific, irrational phenomena are widespread in social life, which greatly affects the efficacy and therapeutic effects of the drug, and even has a serious impact on the health and safety of the drug users. So, in life, everyone What are the misunderstandings in the use of drugs? Let's take a look.
These medication misunderstandings need to understand
Misunderstanding 1: Health food as medicine
Health foods are not medicines, have no clinical treatment, and cannot replace medicines. Older friends should be rational when purchasing health foods. Don't treat health products as 'life-saving straw'. Blindly follow the effects of business promotion, and must strictly follow the doctor's advice and scientific medicine. Stopping the drug or using health food to control the condition, but will delay the disease.
Myth 2: Multi-drug overlay
Many people think that if they are sick, they will take more medicines, the effect will be stronger, the effect will be better, and the disease will be faster. This is wrong! When purchasing drugs, consumers should first identify the generic name of the drug. Judging the ingredients of the medicine, and figuring out whether the medicine is purchased by itself or whether it is the same as the medicine that you are taking, so as to avoid buying the wrong medicine or repeating the medicine, resulting in serious consequences.
Misunderstanding 3: Freely changing the dosage
Due to the general lack of knowledge about safe medication, there are some misunderstandings in family medicine, such as increasing or decreasing the dosage, and changing the medicine at will.
Myth 4: Drug storage is too random
Children are curious, have strong imitation skills, and some drug shapes and colors are very attractive to them. In addition, parents can store them easily. When children can get them, it is easy to eat, cause diseases, and even threaten life.
Myth 5: Blindly believe that OTC believes that there are no side effects
Compared with prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs have higher safety, are less likely to cause drug dependence, drug resistance or tolerance, and are not easy to accumulate in the body. The incidence of adverse reactions is low. However, over-the-counter drugs are also drugs, not absolutely no bad. reaction.
Tips: Pediatric medication follows four principles
1, the timing of medication
First physical therapy. Should first observe the changes in the condition. If fever, you should first understand the cause, children's body temperature is higher than adults, when the body temperature is lower than 38.5 ° C, do not need to use antipyretics, you can first rub with alcohol, or use ice packs to physically cool.
2, drug type
Try to be as simple as possible. First, 'you can use two drugs without two', so as to avoid the superposition of drugs and increase the risk of adverse reactions. Second, the single-component drugs are safer. The name of the drug with 'complex' should be cautious. For example, if the compound licorice tablets have good antitussive effect, children under 3 years old should not be used.
3, dosage form dosage
Preferred children's clothing. In the cause of adverse drug reactions, overdose is more than 40%. The correct way is to buy 'children' as much as possible, such as fever, diarrhea and other common children's conditions, pharmacies basically have children's dosage form; If you don't, don't take adult medicine, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible, and ask the doctor to guide the medication according to weight, body surface area and other methods.
4, mode of administration
The preferred oral medication. The order of scientific medicine for children is oral, intramuscular, intravenous infusion. In principle, do not hang on the oral dose. Infants and young children are more difficult than adults, and the incidence of adverse reactions is higher. Pay attention to the choice of dosage forms suitable for children, such as the use of drugs with longer half-life, can reduce the number of medications.
