Dangerous mistake
When the child’s fever relapsed many times, she took the child to the doctor for examination and told what she had just done. Give your child medicine that is “butt-filled” to reduce fever. She thinks that the oral route is different from rectal pills, and the two drugs have different names, so it won’t have any effect!
But she is just one of many mothers who are There are harmful mistakes about using antipyretic and pain relievers for children.
10-month-old baby Duc Dung in Trung Hoa Nhan Chinh apartment complex grew 4 teeth at once with red fever and painful gums. So I refused to eat or drink. After seeing a doctor, a neighbor who had experience raising two small children recommended using Pamin to reduce the pain, swelling and redness of the gums.
Looking at the medical record, I only saw the doctor’s note. gave paracetamol to reduce fever when the baby had a fever of 39oC without prescribing any medicine to help the baby with pain, swelling and redness of the gums, so when the baby had a high fever, she gave the baby as prescribed and followed the advice. of the neighbor.
She did not notice that although the drug names were different, these two drugs contained the same pharmaceutical ingredient Paracetamol. Therefore, if you give your child both of these drugs for many days in high doses, there is a high risk of poisoning.
High dose = low dose. Rapid fever = dangerous
Doctor Tran Van Phuc of Saint Paul Hospital said that drugs such as: Panadol Pamin Pamindol Decolsin Deconal Decolgen Decolgen Forte… all have the same active ingredient: Paracetamol. Many people do not know this, taking a combination like Pamin to reduce fever and relieve pain from Decogen to treat flu is very dangerous. Patients can be poisoned by taking many drugs containing the active ingredient Paracetamol without knowing it.
Furthermore, taking such a combination accidentally causes the patient to take high doses to quickly reduce fever. very dangerous. During a high fever, the temperature drops suddenly, causing the body to not be able to adapt in time, making the patient even more tired and sick.
Or there are cases where the patient takes medicine 2 hours after taking medicine because of a high fever. When the fever returns, they don’t worry and immediately take another dose of fever reducer without fully realizing the long-term effects on their health.
Because immediately after taking Paracetamol, it is quickly absorbed through the digestive tract. Metabolism reaches its peak in the blood in about 30 to 60 minutes and distributes quickly and evenly to tissues in the body. Paracetamol is metabolized mainly in the liver and a small part in the kidneys into many different active ingredients to be eliminated from the body. If you take an overdose of Paracetamol, there will be a risk of liver poisoning, affecting liver function.
With paracetamol fever reducers, depending on age and weight, the dosage is different but each time Taking medicine must be 4 – 6 hours apart. If the fever appears less than 4 hours after taking the medicine, you should not take the medicine immediately but must use heat-reducing measures such as drinking lots of water, applying warm water, removing clothes…
Only Use Paracetamol fever reducer when body temperature is above 38 5°C. Do not arbitrarily use the drug for more than 3 days. In addition, it should be noted that when using this medicine, absolutely do not drink alcohol because the combination of alcohol and Paracetamol increases liver toxicity many times.
Be cautious when using with children Because of low body weight, it is easy to overdose, and the detoxification and detoxification functions of the liver and kidneys are not yet complete, so they are more easily affected by drugs. If a child drinks 150mg/kg of body weight in a day, he or she may be poisoned. Using the correct dose of medicine for children for more than 5 days will pose a risk of poisoning because the medicine is stored in the body for a long time.
Paracetamol poisoning often has serious consequences. Symptoms of poisoning on the first day are fatigue, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, pale skin, purple fingernails, and toenails… On the second day, there are more severe signs such as: pain in the liver, skin, yellow eyes, and little urination. On the 3rd and 4th day, the symptoms are very severe and the patient falls into a state of multi-organ failure, coma, and shock… Paracetamol poisoning can lead to death at any time, but death usually occurs 7 days after poisoning.< /p>
Therefore, pain relievers and fever reducers should not be used arbitrarily. It is necessary to carefully read the instructions for using the active ingredients to avoid taking different drugs but having the same active ingredient, paracetamol, causing overdose, poisoning, and serious health effects.
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