Many parents provide, with the best intentions, drugs that endanger the health and even lives of their children.
Some parents, when their children represent that they have some pain, they begin to administer medication indiscriminately and, worse, without prior consultation with the doctor.
Many mothers, for example, noting that their children are suffering from vomiting, stomach pain, disgust with food or an attack of constipation, give their children medications considers that these same symptoms can occur at the beginning of an attack appendicitis. In that case, the laxative can make things worse.
Aspirin is another drug that mothers provide their children a lot when they have a headache not knowing what the cause may be dangerous in certain doses, a condition known as Reye syndrome, which triggers, among other symptoms, convulsions severe.
In addition, frequent use of aspirin can cause stomach and digestive disorders since this drug tends to increase the secretion of gastric juices causing irritation and heartburn. This acidity over time may affect the stomach lining or duodenum and therefore cause ulcers or internal bleeding.
It is therefore positive if the mother notes that his son has a good face and you suspect any possible condition, always consult your doctor
Here we present some recommendations with regard to medicines and the safety and welfare of your child:
Do not give your child any medication (how harmless it may seem) without first consulting your pediatrician if your child has been taken previously.
For the pediatrician can manage the best medicine, requires that you have paid close attention to your child’s symptoms. Therefore requires a detailed factual description of them and all kinds of variations you observe (although they apparently have no relevance).
When you visit the pediatrician, should have on hand a list of all medications you are taking your child, as there are medicines that should not be taken together.
When the doctor tells you the name of the medication prescribed to your child, you should ask how to manage it (after dinner with a glass of milk or after many hours) and what are the possible side effects.
Medicines is not recommended to store the child has previously taken, as they can expire or, worse, can be ingested accidentally by his son being one of the cause of many fatal accidents. If for any reason, you should keep any medications, you should check the label to be read clearly the product name, dosage, date it was issued by the pharmacy and the name of the doctor who prescribed it.
Dosages should be followed carefully specified by the pediatrician has recommended If given a medication for 10 days should not discontinue or interrupt the treatment even see improvement in your child and if the prescribed medication is a liquid, you must provide accurate measurement indicated by the pediatrician .
If you have any questions about the medicine your doctor has prescribed, you should ask right away. You are entitled to know exactly what it will take your child.
Do not rely on the fact that a particular drug that has had good results with a child you know, so will your child, since each agency tends to react in different ways and at the slightest sign of a disorder, you should see urgency pediatrician.
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