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How to mix to take cold medicine to die to return a responsibility? What are the common mistakes in

Sick medicine can't be taken indiscriminately. It's three-point poison. For those who don't have a little medical knowledge, the consequences are serious if they take the wrong medicine. Be sure to take the medicine under the doctor's advice, and never take the medicine on your own initiative. Recently a man took a large dose of cold medicine with high fever and died. What should I pay attention to when taking the medicine?

Because most cold medicines are over-the-counter, many people think that cold is a minor illness, so they don't need to take medicine; or they can buy them at the drugstore by themselves and listen to the recommendation of the drugstore staff. In fact, a cold is not terrible. What's terrible is its complications. There are many people who regard cold as a minor problem. If the symptoms are not serious, rest, drink more water and ventilation will also be relieved. But it is not uncommon for patients with life-threatening cold complications. Especially for the elderly, infants and children, patients with basic diseases (chronic bronchitis, cor pulmonale, diabetes), etc., for this kind of special population, cold is not a small problem, but a 'disease' that needs to be taken seriously. To prevent and occurrence of adverse reactions.

Patients know little about the ingredients, dosage, contraindications, indications, precautions for use, and drug validity of common cold; they just want to get rid of the disease pain early, and there are various unreasonable drugs. There are also various misunderstandings among medical workers, such as the variety of cold medicine, the composition and dosage of prescriptions are not well understood; in addition, the number of outpatient visits is large, it is difficult to understand the overall situation of patients in time, and it is not able to give patients detailed medication guidance.

Common mistakes in using cold medicine:

I. mistakes of using cold medicine by non-medical personnel

1. Some people have a fever of no more than 38.5 & deg; C and use antipyretics.

2. Eager to recover from cold, taking medicine too frequently.

3. Do not use the medicine according to the doctor's instructions, or do not use the cold medicine according to the dosage specified in the instructions.

4. In order to improve symptoms, take several cold medicines at the same time. For example: antipyretic and analgesic, antibiotics, cough and phlegm, antiviral, proprietary Chinese medicine, etc. Although there are many kinds and different names of cold in hospitals and retail stores, the effects of drugs are similar. The principle of use is "less and better". If the ingredients of the drug are similar, you don't need to take B if you use A. if you take AB at the same time, you will increase the dosage of the drug, and the side effects and adverse reactions will also increase.

5. The common cold is mostly viral infection, but it is not effective for antibiotics. If you have bacterial infection, use antibiotics under the guidance of your doctor. If there is no bacterial infection, it is not recommended to use antibiotics; frequent abuse will cause side effects such as drug resistance and flora imbalance.

6. Some parents will use adult cold medicine, divided into small doses for children to take. In addition to the dosage can not be guaranteed, it is also easy for children to take adult medicine to cause drug accumulation.

Some medical staff don't know enough about cold medicine, which leads to unreasonable use of medicine

1. Some doctors think that a cold is a "self limiting disease", and it will get better if it is not treated for a while. But for the elderly, children, patients with basic diseases, etc., we need to be highly vigilant.

2. There are too many kinds of cold medicine, and there are differences in efficacy; in addition, the workload is large, and there are many patients, so doctors can not understand the drug composition, contraindications, indications, etc. of cold medicine in time, and the guidance for patients is not detailed enough.

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What drugs do bulk drivers, taxi drivers and high altitude operators choose? What drugs do influenza choose? What drugs do children cold choose? And so on.

3. Some medical workers don't know Chinese patent medicine and have no way to treat it according to syndrome differentiation,

Nowadays, many people attach importance to health and recognize the low side effects. The traditional Chinese medicine cold medicine (OTC, non OTC) is very popular.