I don’t know whether people’s living standard has improved or people’s vision has improved. In short, even ordinary families now have more and more products from the sea. There are also some parents who have come up with the idea of sea-panning children’s medicines and health care products. The reason is nothing more than that: they think the preparation technology is better, with fewer side effects or better curative effect…
Admittedly, there are many good things overseas. However, drugs are different from ordinary products. If you want to make up your mind to search for children’s drugs or health products, the following five hidden dangers need to be known first.
Hidden Danger 1: Children with different constitutions should be treated differently.
There was once a news report like this:
A woman asked relatives to buy some children’s vitamin D from abroad. Unexpectedly, after eating for a period of time, the child developed nausea, vomiting and head swelling. After checking in the hospital, she was diagnosed as vitamin D poisoning.
Vitamin D production has a lot to do with sun exposure. Therefore, even in the south and north of China, the extra doses needed in summer and winter are not necessarily the same. What’s more, different countries have different geographical environments, and it is irresponsible to directly supplement the doses commonly used by children on another piece of land.
Moreover, the dietary differences between the East and the West are very big. Western children drink milk and eat meat in large pieces, so their health care products focus on supplementing trace elements such as copper and magnesium, while calcium and iron contents are very low. However, Chinese children have a rich diet, but they do not drink much milk, so they are more calcium deficient, instead, they are not too short of copper, phosphorus, magnesium and other elements.
In addition, the average weight of Asian children of the same age is different from that of Western children, and the dosage also needs to be adjusted.
Hidden danger 2: I can’t understand the instructions, which is risky.
1. Repeated medication
For example, I saw this introduction:
Paracetamol Fever Reduction PP Suppository in Germany: In Germany, if a baby has a fever, just plug a fever reduction suppository into the baby’s fart, and the fever will begin to decrease after 30 minutes, thus alleviating the pain caused by the baby’s fever.
If you don’t know the medicine, you may think it is what’s high technology. In fact, Paracetamol is our common paracetamol, and suppositories are not what’s high technology.
Some parents, in order to reduce fever quickly, plug Haitao’s [German antipyretic suppository] into their children’s anus while giving their children domestic [Tylenol suspension] on the other side, thinking [there is no conflict anyway]. However, I am sorry, there is a real conflict. The two ingredients are exactly the same, and eventually they all enter the blood circulation. Excessive medication may bring the danger of poisoning.
2. Unknown dose
For example, Dimetapp, a popular product of Meitao, sounds harmless to human beings and animals, but one ingredient in it is chlorphenamine maleate. In China, the product instructions involving this ingredient will say [please consult a doctor or pharmacist for the dosage of children], while the instructions of Haitao only say [children aged 6 to 12: 2 teaspoons every 4 hours].
Not to mention whether you have the teaspoon as a measuring tool in your home, what is more dangerous is that Haitao has dropped too much valuable instruction information for you. Even if you can fully understand the English instruction, what if you encounter German, Japanese and Thai? It really can only be used according to [business instructions].
Hidden Danger 3: There may be problems in the transportation process,
If it is not formally imported, there are no more than three channels for [Haitao] drugs or health products:
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Direct mail, foreign first-class agents send through logistics;
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I or my relatives and friends will bring it back directly after buying it directly from the websites of foreign pharmacies.
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Looking for a Haitao seller online to buy on his behalf, he will send it to you.
Such a process may bring about the following problems:
1. Improper storage is easy to deteriorate.
These three ways, it is impossible to achieve professional drug transportation conditions. However, many drugs or health care products have relatively strict requirements on transportation and storage conditions. Some should be refrigerated, some should be protected from light, and some should be moisture-proof, insect-proof and rat-proof.
In addition, drugs and cosmetics should be stored separately, and drugs for external use and oral medicine should also be stored separately. I’m afraid the sea-panning merchants who purchase a large number of drugs at one time will not really strictly do these things. This will greatly affect the quality of drugs, perhaps before the shelf life, the drugs will deteriorate.
2. If there are problems, it is difficult to safeguard rights.
At the same time, because it does not come through formal channels, without legal procedures for imported drugs, so if you find quality problems, or even problems after taking them, I’m afraid you can’t protect your rights and can only recognize them. China Food and Drug Administration does not punish you for smuggling drugs, which is already good.
Hidden Danger 4: The curative effect may not be better,
In fact, it is more reliable if it is not foreign, especially health care products.
For example, in the United States, the supervision of health care products (dietary supplements) is much looser than that of drugs. Whether it is safe or not, whether it is effective or not, depends mainly on the manufacturer’s own moral integrity. Anyway, the principle of FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in the United States is: after the product goes on the market, if there are problems, then settle accounts with the manufacturer.
In this case, a large number of [can’t eat bad people] products appear.
For example, let’s take a look at the well-known American product [NatraBio Infant Cough Syrup], which is said to effectively relieve nasal obstruction, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, sneezing, runny nose… Phlegm-resolving homeopathy, known as all-natural plants.
(To learn more about homeopathy, click on the right link > > to talk about homeopathy: it is not cost-effective to go across the sea to buy [water])
Let’s take a look at the specific ingredient of this syrup product. Is it what?
Aconitum carmichaeli, Echinacea angustifolia, Onion, Magnolia officinalis, Gelsemium elongatum, Erigeron canadensis, Lung
Is there a feeling of being deeply cheated?
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And Haitao sellers also recommend dripping on pillows, not afraid of being accidentally licked or touched by the baby’s face?
Hidden Danger 5: There will also be fake goods abroad,
Just last year, the New York State Attorney General charged four major retailers-Jian Anxi, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart-and asked them to remove suspected fake health products from the shelves. To give a few examples:
Ginkgo biloba sold by Wal-Mart: only radish flour and wheat flour are in it;
Walgreen’s Ginseng Slices: Only Garlic Powder and Rice Noodles in It;
Jiananxi’s health care tablets: No ingredients are labeled, and the soybean flour and peanut flour contained therein are potentially dangerous to allergic people.
This is only a fraud in the United States.
As for the domestic market, the water is even deeper. Once there was a senior Haitao purchasing agent who said that as long as they did purchasing on behalf of others for a period of time, counterfeiters would come to you and let you sell them together with fake products, with surprisingly high profits.
And those who look reliable [friends circle purchasing on behalf of], in fact, there are many like facial mask micro-merchants, your friends are just a certain level of agents. I’m afraid even your friends don’t know whether their superior supply is genuine or not and whether the quality is guaranteed.
See here, if you still want to search for children’s medicines and health products, please think twice before you act.