The advice to consult your doctor and get his approval to ensure baby is particularly relevant in our day. Today the decision on how to fight disease, often don't take the doctors and the parents of sick children! In addition, more and more drugs fall into the category of over-the-counter and automatically perceived as a safe tool. But it is not so! For example, analgin, the well-known reliever, or other drugs, which include the same substance - metamizol. There was a time when they were treated adults and children, and only then became aware of how serious can be a side effect of these drugs. That is why in 2000 in the instructions for products containing Metamizole, appeared important amendment that children under 12 years, these funds can be given only on the recommendation of a physician. Unfortunately, some parents do not pay attention to this warning and continue to treat kids Smoking medication. Interestingly, in Germany, a country which was created Metamizole, the funds in which it belongs has ceased to sell back in 1987!
Kids get sick often and it is a natural process: it develops their immune system. Usually the disease, which infected the child, communicating with peers are mild and only help the body to form a protection against them. That is why the question whether to give their children all sorts of drugs in the case of uncomplicated colds, it is best to answer "no".
Another world
Why kids cannot so easily prescribe medication? One of the reasons lies in the fact that children are not small adults. Their body differently reacts to drugs; in addition, the metabolism of children is not as fast as the liver and kidneys are under development, so drugs are excreted much more slowly. Moreover, most of them has no special forms designed for the very young, and about three quarters of drugs or contraindicated to children, or to have a strict reservations about their use for kids up to 3 years. However, despite this, many commercially available drugs for diarrhea, cough or cold, that is, those ailments that usually do not require treatment, assigned and children. That, among other things, leads to another problem: kids are growing up with the habit of taking drugs, more likely to resort to their help in the future to cure that can pass itself.
Unstable equilibrium
What diseases are most often found in the smallest? Indigestion (in other words, loose stools or diarrhea and runny nose. Perhaps that is why, as soon as the baby will appear the first signs of discomfort, one should try to overcome the disease "home" ways to offer your child more to drink and some time to refuse the sweets, fresh fruits and vegetables. If you overcome the discomfort on their own, you will fail, be sure to contact your doctor because only a specialist can properly find the antidiarrheal drug that will help your child to cope with the disease. By the way, remember that Motilium, Janssen Pharmaceutica, and Smectite, Beaufour Ipsen (it is known that these drugs are especially often treat very young children) not to give the kids without your doctor's permission. These medications require strict dosage and designed by a doctor of course, to use them at their discretion unsafe. They have their side effects: for example, Smectite outputs from the intestines along with the toxins and the microflora, and the baby will need the destination of the funds, which make up for these losses, and stop diarrhea by Motilium the child may intensify intoxication due to absorption through the intestinal wall toxins, so you must assign compositions for feeding and withdrawal of these toxins out.
Another problem is a viral infection of the respiratory tract. Usually ill child can easily recover by itself, and it is not necessary to prescribe any medications. Especially since many medications contain runny nose antihistamine component, which has a so-called sedative effect, i.e. it takes the baby to sleep. And because these tools operate on the body for a long time, after the child wakes up, they may affect the coordination of his movements. Another component of many popular drugs from a cold - a decongestant "Pseudoephedrine". Alas, quite often because of it, the kids start dreaming troubled dreams, especially if it is prescribed to very young children.
With regard to high temperature, which usually results from a viral infection, do not consider it harmful for the baby's health: it has long been known that the temperature rise is one means of combating the disease. If the thermometer reading range 37, 5°, then the body of the baby tries to defeat the infection, and prevent him taking antipyretics is not worth it. And even if the temperature rises above 38, 5-39°, the first is to try to reduce it, stripped the baby or her tone implied it with a damp towel. If without fever-reducing drugs still do not succeed, do not expect that after taking the drug on the basis of paracetamol (eg Panadol, GlaxoSmithKline; Efferalgan UPSA, UPSA), the temperature will drop to normal: it will still remain high within 37, 5°. And more effective means of combating the temperature (acetylsalicylic acid or aspirin) may be unsafe for the health of the child.
Strictly about
Another important question: how to treat antibiotic? It is known that these funds are designated kids too often, despite the fact that antibiotics do not help fight viral infections. And because viruses usually cause digestive disturbance (diarrhoea) and respiratory diseases, to defeat them with antibiotics impossible. That is why the need to treat them gently!
Whatever happens with the baby, do not give him antibiotics at its own discretion, without consulting with the doctor. All drugs of this class of complex, non-generic and very General concern. Each antibiotic has specific, sensitive microorganisms, and only a doctor can determine which treatment will help the kid. Due to the wrong choice of antibiotic disease may be delayed, he will "mask" the symptoms of an ailment, and to identify the problem will be difficult, if not impossible. And also very important to know how long to take medication and what dose it needed to win the microbes. If you stop treatment too soon, the pathogens get a break, during which they may develop immunity to the designated drug and treatment will have to start anew. In addition to the correct choice of medication, there is the problem of adverse reactions, which may cause most antibiotics. In this list, allergic reactions, angioedema (swelling of eyelids, face, hands, feet), disruption of the gastrointestinal tract (vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea), decreased hemoglobin.
Special offer
Because from time to time children may need to be treated for some illness, some pharmaceutical companies produce drugs intended for very small. We are talking about drugs in drops, syrups, powders, effervescent tablets. And baby to be easier to swallow, the taste they resemble the genuine fruit.
These drugs are freely sold in pharmacies, but these should not be given to children without a special reason. If the baby starts to complain of a headache or stomach cramps, first of all, consult a doctor. As for vitamins, in this matter, too, is to find a middle ground. Often caring mothers think that the child eats little, he has a poor appetite and that as a result he does not receive important for its development substances. Vitamins really need baby, although children whose parents care about balanced diet, is unlikely to face the problem of beriberi. If this happens, it is much more important is to change the baby food so that in the future he had no such problems, and along with this some time to take vitamins that porekomenduete your child's doctor.
What should I ask my doctors?
Getting a prescription, ask him some important questions:
- Whether the child needs this medicine?
- Is there an alternative treatment of disease without the use of medication?
- How does the drug, how long the effect?
- What to do if the medicine does not work?
- What foods can affect the efficacy of the drug?
- Is it possible to give the child at the same time and other medications, for example a remedy for colic?
- Whether you want to continue to give prescriptions for medication, if the baby suddenly get better before the end of the treatment?
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