In autumn and winter, the weather gradually becomes colder, and the incidence of various seasonal colds and influenza is relatively high. Colds as a common disease, many people with colds will buy some cold medicines in pharmacies to relieve symptoms. In these populations, we will find that a large proportion of patients have some medication safety hazards in the use of cold medicines. Today, I often encounter situations where I do not take cold medicine according to the drug instructions or doctor's instructions.
The reasons given by cold patients using the over-prescribed dosage are:
(1) I am relatively fat, heavy, and eating according to the normal dose is afraid that the effect is not good.
(2) I have a serious cold, and eating more should be better and faster.
(3) I have heard others say that the current medicine is relatively fake, and it is necessary to eat more than the amount in the instructions to work.
Some cold patients symptoms will be more serious, especially runny nose, nasal congestion, fever feel particularly uncomfortable, just after taking the medicine may alleviate a little comfort, wait for two or three hours is more uncomfortable, he took the medicine to eat, some eat five or six times a day.
This type of cold has the most patients and is also the most dangerous. Now many patients in the treatment of other diseases, especially some chronic diseases, often hear doctors say that the combination of drugs is better. When the symptoms of the cold are more obvious, they will also think of combined medication, and some patients have been prescribed by the doctor, but the effect is not as he expected, they will go to the pharmacy to buy some medicines to eat together, which is very likely to occur repeated medication, and the possibility of repeated use of cold medicine is also relatively large.
Below I'll list a few common cold medicines that are easy to reuse.
Ammonia YellowMin Capsules (OTC):
Cold Spirit Granules (OTC): Trigemindal, Gangmei, Calendula Silver Plate, Peppermint Oil, Wild Chrysanthemum,
Compound aminophenolamine capsules (OTC): Amantadine hydrochloride 10 mg.
Aminophenol canamine tablets (OTC):
All four are used to relieve symptoms such as fever, nasal congestion, runny nose, and sneezing during a cold. They have different names, but the main ingredients they play are basically the same. Many people do not understand that the simultaneous use of two or more of them can easily cause damage to liver and kidney function, and even endanger life. Every year, there are reports of cases of losing their lives due to taking cold medicine!
Therefore, it is recommended that when you eat multiple drugs, it is best to consult a professional doctor or pharmacist!