Misunderstanding of medication in children

A survey found that although parents are concerned about the dosage and side effects of their children's medication, they often rely on experience when giving their children medication again. At the same time, it is also common to administer prescription drugs to children on their own.
According to a survey, over 80% of parents have misconceptions about children's medication. The following are common medication errors that parents make in their daily lives.
1. Medication and sugar addition
Many mothers find that their babies do not want to drink bitter medicines when feeding them, so they use sugar water to give them medicine.
Little did they know that sugar contains a large amount of mineral elements such as calcium and iron, which can react chemically with proteins in medicine and coagulate and denature in gastric juice, leading to turbidity and sedimentation, greatly reducing the therapeutic effect.
Some drugs use bitterness to stimulate the secretion of digestive juices and achieve therapeutic effects. If sugar is added to the medicine, the effect is not good.
2. Using adult medication
Some parents feel that adult medication has strong efficacy, and it is a very wrong practice to feed children adult medication to help them recover as soon as possible.
For example, using norfloxacin capsules to treat diarrhea can cause kidney damage in children; For example, adult compound sulfamethoxazole tablets, taken for a long time in children, can seriously poison their kidneys and can also induce anemia.
3. Mixed use of multiple drugs
After a child falls ill, parents hope that their child will recover their health as soon as possible, often using multiple medications together. However, the mixed use of multiple drugs may lead to weakened efficacy, while the combined toxic reactions not only result in poor efficacy but also adverse reactions.
For example, taking sulfanilamide together with VC can exacerbate kidney toxicity; The use of penicillin and aspirin together can reduce the antibacterial effect of penicillin, and so on.
4. Superstition of the efficacy of expensive drugs
Parents are eager to cure their child's illness with medication, so they often purchase and use new and expensive drugs, hoping that their child can recover quickly after taking them.
In fact, after a child falls ill, parents should promptly take their child to a regular hospital for diagnosis. Medicines are not of high or low value, what is appropriate is the best.
5. Abuse of fever reducing drugs and vitamins
Fever is a necessary protective mechanism for the human body. Some young mothers give their children antipyretic medication as soon as they see their fever. This can easily mask symptoms and make the disease difficult to diagnose.
Vitamins do play an important role in the growth and development of children, but one cannot blindly believe that more is better. Many medicinal vitamins have certain adverse effects and even toxic reactions, especially fat soluble vitamins. Excessive or prolonged use may cause accumulation in the body and lead to poisoning.