"Mistakenly taking potassium permanganate" exposes a short board in children's medication丨 times

Text/Luo Zhihua

Mr. Wang's 13-year-old son recently had surgery, and when he returned home, Mr. Wang forgot for a moment that the doctor prescribed potassium permanganate topical tablets, and casually asked the child to quickly eat the medicine. After finding out that he had taken the wrong medicine, Mr. Wang quickly sent his son to the hospital for rescue, and the medical staff immediately washed his stomach, fortunately, it was sent to the hospital in time, and potassium permanganate had not yet been completely absorbed by the stomach. After several days of observation and treatment, Mr. Wang's son has recovered and been discharged from the hospital. (February 13, Guangming Network)

Mr. Wang's carelessness should be blamed, but it should also be seen that no matter how careful people are, they may also make mistakes like Mr. Wang. Because although the outer packaging box of the drug is marked with a "foreign" word in a conspicuous position, in the process of family medication, the separation of tablets from the pill box is a very common phenomenon, if you do not look at the pill box, look at the pills alone, it is no different from the packaging of the internal medicine, it is very easy for parents to confuse. Adults are still like this, children's judgment is even worse, and it is sometimes difficult to avoid such external drugs as internal medicines.

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Potassium permanganate is a topical anti-inflammatory drug, which is a strong oxidant, and the undiluted high-concentration tablets have a strong burning effect on the mucous membranes of the digestive tract after being taken as an oral drug. Mr. Wang's son is fortunate that there is no major obstacle in the end, but the safety of children's medication cannot be pinned on the fluke, and the problems exposed by this accident are a warning to parents, and it is more worthy of reflection by pharmaceutical manufacturers.

The most prominent shortcomings facing children's medication are that children's special drugs are very scarce, and many times they can only use the adult version of the drug to "eat on the break", and parents feel very deeply in this regard, and they are generally troubled by this. However, another common shortcoming of children's medication has not yet attracted the attention of society, that is, many drugs do not fully consider the particularity of children when formulating safety precautions, which is a typical case.

According to statistics, due to improper medication, about 30,000 children in the mainland are deaf every year, and about 7,000 children die every year due to improper medication. The adverse drug reaction rate of children in mainland China is 12.5%, which is 2 times that of adults, and the newborn is 4 times that of adults, and the drug damage caused by irrational medication and medication errors in children is more serious. The lack of children's drug types is the safety hazard that needs the most attention, but the dosage form is easy to confuse, and the dosage is easy to be wrong. Children's medication should not be "eaten on the back", and the safety precautions for children's drugs should not be applied to the adult way, but some additional measures should be taken.

For example, there are many drugs with very bright colors and sweet tastes, and many antidiabetic drugs and antihypertensive drugs are all the same. Such a dosage form design may not pose a safety hazard for adults, but it is full of risks for children who do not understand things, and safety precautions do not fully consider the characteristics of children, and the result is that only children take such drugs as sugar to mistakenly take damage incidents from time to time. Although adults manage related drugs well, it is the most direct preventive measure, but whether the appearance of some drugs can not be too much like sugar, and whether the difference between children's external drugs and internal drugs should be greater, is also worth thinking about.

In this incident, if the potassium permanganate topical tablets are marked for external use on the outer packaging box, the shape of the drug is also made into an irregular shape, making it very different from the appearance of ordinary internal medicines, and giving people the impression of inconvenient internal administration, this drug damage incident may be avoided. Not only potassium permanganate topical tablets, many adults and children's common drugs, in terms of color, dosage, appearance and other aspects of design, should fully consider the characteristics of children's poor judgment and weak awareness of prevention, etc., for children to mistakenly take drugs to do a good job of pre-prevention. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)

Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pie

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