Children how to properly taking cold medicine

Colds are common in children, can occur all year round, more drugs for treatment of colds in children, but if used improperly, will get half. How to correctly taking a cold medicine in children?

1, do not hurry to cooling. Fever is the body of a defensive reaction, which helps wipe out the invading pathogen, and conducive to the child\'s normal growth and development. But when high fever (39 ° c or more) should be under the guidance of doctor antipyretic. Antipyretic is the best way of physical cooling, such as cold compress, alcohol to clean the bath, and so on. Such as physical method does not cause the temperature to drop, you can use with antipyretic drugs. Common antipyretic drugs: 10%~20% metamizole sodium nasal drops, each 1~3 drops chlorpheniramine tablets, per kg of body weight per day 0. 35 mg-314 oral dose; antipyretic suppository in children, half-grain at a time to 1 capsule, people anal, not more than 3 times in one day, after cooling deactivated. Do not use the APC (compound aspirin), because APC have excitatory effects and neural inhibition mechanism of infants has not been sound, used when a high fever, convulsions induced by, also collapsed due to a lot of sweating, and even yellow gas gangrene occurs due to accumulation of unconjugated bilirubin in the blood.

2 don\'t use the most antibiotics for colds as virus infection, antibiotics is not valid for viruses. Commonly used antiviral drug to have:

(1) effect of BENZOTRIAZOLE, 10~20 mg/kg body weight per day, 3 suits, or 10~15 mg/kg body weight daily intramuscular injection or infusion.

(2) banlangen granules, half a bag at a time, 3 times a day, boiling water take medicine after mixing it with water.

(3), dipyridamole (persantine), 1 day 2, 1 5~25 mg oral. These drugs may, as appropriate, to select results relatively reliable, small side-effects.

3, in the following cases, consider combined with antibiotics: taking antiviral drugs cannot antipyretic; prevention in June for gestational age infants with secondary bacterial infection occurs; check white blood cell count significantly increased; often suffering from tonsillitis; case of bronchitis or pneumonia.

4, regardless of the drug use, to be aware of the following issues:
　　
(1) dose not excessive taking time should not be for too long.

(2) during the period of taking drink boiling water, in order to facilitate absorption and excretion of drugs, reducing the toxicity of drugs on children\'s physical.

(3) in children under 3 years old, liver, kidney or not maturity, not oral or injection of paracetamol,

(4) antipyretic drugs or their family members have history of allergy in children who do not use the antipyretic drugs.

(5) antipyretic drugs don\'t alkaline drug taking, such as baking soda, such as aminophylline, otherwise it will reduce the cooling effect.

5, Chinese medicine think cold is felt evil caused by the wind, two types of a cold wind, cold and wind-heat, effect of treatment based on syndrome differentiation and reliable, you can use under medical supervision Antelope such as cold tablets, Sang Ju cold tablets.