When you let babies take medicine, a small
mistake can also be harmful to little children’s life.
Children can meet harmful response and side
effect of medicine more than adults. Therefore, it’s a serious problem when
parents let children take medicine with prescription or without prescription and
even with herbal remedy. Parents need to calculate this thing. The following
kinds of medicine that you never let children from 2 to 4 years old take.
Children
can meet harmful response and side effect of medicine more than adults.
Aspirin
You never let children take aspirin or nay
medicines containing aspirin that isn’t taken a prescription by pediatrician.
According to research, aspirin has relation with Reye Syndrome, a disease about
liver and brain that is rare. This disease is popular with children and this
disease’s characteristics are cerebral edema, fatty liver failure that develops
quickly. This rate of death is high from 30 to 50%. Children that catch this
disease often take Aspirin and concentration of aspirin in blood is higher than
other people.
If you want to reduce fever or cure
symptoms for children, you can use paracetamol to replace aspirin (the other
name is acetaminophen) or ibuprofen. In addition, you shouldn’t forget that
dose of medicine for children needs to be exact. However, if your children lose
water or vomit or have asthma, have problem about kidney, have ulceration or
other diseases that last, you need to ask doctor for idea before letting
children take ibuprofen. Moreover, you need to ask doctors for idea about the
kind of medicine that can replace Paracetamol if your children have diseases
about liver.
You
need to ask doctors for idea about the kind of medicine that can replace Paracetamol
if your children have diseases about liver.
Kinds of medicine that aren’t taken a prescription to cure
coughing and flu
Academy of Pediatrics advises you not to
let children from 2 to 4 years old take kinds of medicine that aren’t taken a
prescription to cure coughing and flu. According to many researches, these
kinds of medicine don’t really ease symptoms of children in this age; however,
it can be dangerous, especially when children take drug overdose that is
advised.
Besides side effects such as nauseating,
losing sleep, disorder in digestion, having rash or breaking out in the rash,
children can meet other serious effects such as fast heart rate, convulsion and
even death. According to statistics, every year in USA, there are thousands of
children that have to be hospitalized after taking medicine to much to cure
coughing and flu.
If your children that are from 2 to 4 years
old have a cold, you can try to use humidifier or other therapies to cure at
home.
Antiemetic
Don’t let your children take medicine with
prescription or without prescription to prevent vomiting unless children’s
doctor advises you to do so. Most of the vomiting takes place in a short time
and children can handle without taking medicine. Moreover, kinds of antiemetic
also have risk and have complications. However, if your children vomit and lose
water, you should ask doctor for idea about what you should do for your
children in this time.
Which medicine expires?
Throw away medicines that are taken a prescription
or without prescription expire. In addition, you also need to throw away
medicines whose color changes or crumble. In general, they are different from
ones when you have just bought. If medicines expire, they aren’t and even they
can be harmful. In addition, you shouldn’t throw away old medicines into toilet
and flush because this thing can make water absorb in groundwater and move to
system that provides water for family. USA Administration of Food and Medicine
advises you to put some kinds of medicine into toilet and flush instead of
throwing away them to dustbin. You can recognize these kinds of medicine by
reading medicine label. You aren’t sure about information that you need, you
should ask pharmacist or learn about it in the region where you live to know
about programs that collect old medicines or medicines that expire or not.
Throw
away medicines that are taken a prescription or without prescription expire.
Spare about the amount of Paracetamol (acetaminophen)
Some kinds of medicine contain Paracetamol
to reduce and fever and pain. Therefore, you should be careful to add one dose
of Paracetamol when children are taking these kinds of medicine. If you aren’t
sure about components of those medicines, you shouldn’t be hurried to let
children take Paracetamol or ibuprofen until you have information that is
confirmed from doctor or pharmacist.
Ipecac Syrup emetic
Ipecac Syrup is emetic that is often used
to give emergency aid in the case of being poisoning. However, at present,
doctors don’t recommend to use Ipecac Syrup because there isn’t any evidence
that proves that vomiting can cure poisoning. In reality, Ipecac Syrup is more
harmful and it can make your children vomit continuously in the case that your
children use another method to cure, for example activated carbon. Academy of
American Pediatrics advises parents to eliminate any Ipecac Syrup in house and
consider that the best way to prevent accidents caused by poisoning is keeping
agents that are hidden risk in wardrobe and clock it or put them away from
children.
Medicine that can be chewed
Not all kinds of medicines that can be
chewed need to limit. However, you should be careful to calculate that you
should or shouldn’t and how to let children drink.
Most children that are 4 years old can
consume kinds of medicines that can be chewed, especially kinds of medicine
that can melt quickly. However, you need to pay attention when you give
children chewing, especially when children aren’t familiar with solid foods.
If you fear that chewing medicine can make
your children choke, you should ask doctors or pharmacists whether you can
grind that tablet and put in on spoon of soft food such as yoghurt or apples
that are mixed with syrup for children or not. And of course you will need to
ensure so that children can eat the whole spoon, and as a result, medicine will
have enough dose.
