Tag: Medication safety

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The Easy Mistake of Giving Children Medicine

Not long ago, I read a report on drug safety for children published by the Global Organization for Child Safety, June 2014. Some of the data in the report are amazing. 1. 86.4% of the children were poisoned at home. 2. Among the causes of poisoning among children, the proportion of drug poisoning has increased year by year, from 53% in 2012 to 64% in 2013. 3. In 2013, Beijing Children’s Hospital collected 369 cases of children taking drugs by mistake. 4. Among the causes of drug poisoning in children, there are mainly children taking it by mistake, adults taking it by mistake, and adults taking excessive doses. The following figure: 5. 69% of parents usually put the medicine where Read More …

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Be cautious when injecting botulinum toxin, hyaluronic acid and other beauty products.

Recently, the food and drug regulatory authorities have cracked many cases of selling and using illegal drugs and medical devices in beauty salons. Take Zhejiang [March 13] case of manufacturing and selling fake drugs and unlicensed medical devices as an example: Suspect Wang Mou Opens Medical Beauty Center in Ningbo, Purchase botulinum toxin injection marked [BOTOX] [Hengli] and hyaluronic acid injection marked [Restylan] from criminals in Shenyang, Hebei, Shenzhen and other places. After investigation, More than 50,000 bottles (branches) of 77 varieties involved in this case are fake drugs or unregistered medical devices. Sixty suspects have been arrested and fake dens and sales networks distributed in more than 20 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have been destroyed. Through sorting out Read More …

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Placebos cannot cure diseases, and placebos may also [be harmful]

Placebo agent is already familiar to many people. Most of the understanding of placebo comes from [randomized double-blind controlled] experimental settings in medicine. Placebo and placebo effect have caused great discussion and controversy throughout the history of medicine, and have continued to this day. What are the characteristics of placebo effect? As a substance that should not produce any biological effects, it works through what? What factors can affect the placebo effect? Is placebo therapy clinically and ethically appropriate for patients? The history of placebo The word Placebo comes from Latin and its original meaning is [to make pleasure]. It first appeared in the Great Dictionary of New Medicine published in England in 1785 and has clearly pointed out that Read More …

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Right and wrong about metformin

Not long ago, the Endocrine Credit Association of the Chinese Medical Association organized a number of clinical experts and pharmaceutical experts to formulate and publish the “Consensus of Experts on Clinical Application of Metformin” to guide Chinese clinicians and patients to correctly understand and rationally use metformin. It is not common for an authoritative academic group, a group of top medical experts, to issue < < consensus > > for a single drug. Today’s free time, let’s also talk about metformin. Before the text, let’s dispel the doubts that some people, especially conspiracy theorists, may have: [Is there any what issue in recommending a medicine with such great fanfare? ] In fact, metformin is an old drug that has been Read More …

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Food and Drug Administration Reminds Consumers Not to Buy Yang-strengthening Health Products

On September 26, 2014, the General Administration of Food and Drug Administration issued a notice reminding consumers not to buy health food claiming aphrodisiac function. The full text is as follows: Recently, media reports said that Since 2013, the number of cases of producing and selling health food with toxic and harmful ingredients claiming aphrodisiac function has risen sharply. Most of the sales locations are rented houses, small shops and adult stores. Illegal vendors have taken advantage of the psychology that some consumers are ashamed to see a doctor, covet cheap prices and are ashamed to report cases after being victimized, and have taken risks to sell aphrodisiac products to seek illegal benefits. Here, China Food and Drug Administration reminds Read More …

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[Medicine that only menstruates three times a year] Is it what Medicine?

Editor’s Note: Recently, a 2012 [old news]: < < Australia Develops New Drugs: Can Allow Women to Menstruate Only Three Times a Year > > has gone viral on the Internet. Even some medical workers are confused by it. Is the advent of such a [divine medicine] really the gospel for all women? Should we celebrate the whole country, [Xi Da Pu Ben]? Is this drug safe? Any side effects? Is it really good to have menstruation only three times a year? In order to find out, Clove Garden specially invited two experts (Klaith and Tian Jishun) to analyze this problem in depth from the perspectives of drug safety and obstetrics and gynecology respectively. A few days ago, some netizens Read More …

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Three menstruations in a year, is it happiness or sadness?

Editor’s Note: Recently, a 2012 [old news]: “Australia Develops New Drugs: Can Make Women Menstruate Only Three Times a Year” went viral on the Internet. Even some medical workers were puzzled by it. Is the arrival of such a [magic drug] really a gospel for all women? Should we celebrate the whole country, [Xi Da Pu Ben]? Is this drug safe? Any side effects? Is it really good to have menstruation only three times a year? In order to find out, Clove Garden specially invited two experts (Klaith and Tian Jishun) to analyze this problem in depth from the perspectives of drug safety and obstetrics and gynecology respectively. Dear female friends, if someone recommends a new drug to you and Read More …

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In those years, we used the wrong compound cold medicine for children.

If the baby is ill, it is very necessary to take him to the hospital for a definite diagnosis. But if the doctor’s diagnosis is [acute upper respiratory tract infection] (also known as viral cold) and tells you that there is no specific medicine at present and you are allowed to go home without prescribing medicine for the baby, do you think the doctor is a quack? Many people will have such a wrong understanding, so they immediately change hospitals and find another [good] doctor to prescribe a bunch of miscellaneous cold medicines. There is no lack of children’s cold medicines recommended in advertisements every day, such as good dolls, Hu Tong, Yucatan, Hui Fei Ning and Ai Chang, and Read More …

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Truth Nimesulide: A Second-Line Anti-inflammatory Analgesic Prohibited for Children Under 12 Years Old

[Sincerely appeal to friends with little babies, do not use nimesulide granules for antipyretic treatment of children’s fever. The trade name is Ruizhiqing. Since work, I have met five such patients, with Wright’s syndrome and four invalid rescue deaths! Another little angel left tonight, hoping to tell friends with babies that this medicine has been banned for children under 12 years old, and they should not go to private pharmacies and clinics to listen to poor doctors and give it to children. From ICU doctors of children’s hospital] In the past two days, some netizens have seen the above information in WeChat, and some netizens have asked me to verify the authenticity of this information. I will analyze it here. Read More …

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Are these pills still being taken with birth control pills? Have made a big mistake

I. Rifampicin It is a commonly used anti-tuberculosis drug, which can accelerate the metabolism of norethisterone and ethinylestradiol, the main components of oral contraceptives, reduce the concentration of drugs in blood, and may also cause partial shedding of endometrium to cause intravenous drip hemorrhage or inexhaustible leaching. At the same time, it can reduce the contraceptive effect and lead to contraceptive failure. II. Antibiotics Some people have observed 38 women who took contraceptives while using ampicillin, neomycin, tetracycline, compound sulfamethoxazole and chloramphenicol, resulting in contraceptive failure. It was found that the reason for its failure was that antibiotics inhibited intestinal bacteria and greatly reduced the amount of glucuronidase produced by antibiotics, thus affecting the absorption of contraceptives in intestinal tract Read More …