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Not all medications can be taken with warm water, and not all medications need to be taken with water.
We often encounter such a situation clinically: the child is sick, the parents give the child medication in time, the drug is also symptomatic, but the effect is not obvious after taking the medicine, which eventually leads to aggravation of the disease, why is this?
So, it has a very big relationship with the method of taking medicine, etc. Children because of their growth and development characteristics, metabolic laws and spleen and stomach function and many other aspects of the adult has a very significant differences with adults, each drug for children has an extremely strict regulations, of which the method and time of taking the drug is particularly important, and some of this seemingly inconspicuous details are also the most likely to be ignored and errors by many parents.
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The following medications should be taken with cold water
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A proprietary Chinese medicine for detoxification and detoxification
If the child suffers from wind fever cold or fever, fire and other heat poison invasion disease, at this time with cold boiled water with detoxification and detoxification of proprietary medicine, can maximize the role of the drug, on the contrary, if taken with warm boiled water, and the principle of chinese medicine to clear the heat, thereby affecting the efficacy.
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Vitamin drugs
Most vitamins are water-soluble, extremely unstable, and easily decomposed, reduced and destroyed in hot water and lose their original medicinal effects.
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Preparations of live bacteria
Like our commonly used clinical mommy love, synobiosis, whole intestine, etc., all contain active bacteria that regulate gastrointestinal function, which are easily destroyed and killed by warm boiled water, so as not to play any role.
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Active vaccine
Like the live attenuated vaccine of polio taken by children, it is a mixed sugar pill vaccine, which is very sensitive to heat, relatively stable under low temperature conditions, if taken with warm boiled water, it is easy to kill the vaccine virus, and it is stipulated that it can be taken with cold boiled water for half an hour before eating hot things, so as not to affect the immune effect.
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Syrup drugs
Children are most commonly used is cough syrup, such as honey refining Chuanbei loquat paste, Sanjiu cough syrup, acute syrup, etc., these syrups will directly adhere to the throat after taking the most direct anti-inflammatory and cough effect, while forming a protective layer on the throat mucosa, reducing irritation, thereby playing a role in cough suppression. If taken with warm boiled water, it is easy to dilute the drug without effectively protecting the throat.
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Certain digestive drugs
Many of these drugs contain digestive enzymes, which are easily coagulated and denatured when heated.
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Some medications should not be mixed with water
Like the cough syrup drugs mentioned above, the requirements are to take directly, without taking with water, only in this way can the concentration of the throat drug be maintained, so as to play a better effect.
Some drugs should not drink more water after taking
Not all medications require more water to drink. Some drugs, because of their special way of acting, not only can not drink more water when taking, or even drink water, otherwise it will reduce the efficacy of the drug and lose its therapeutic effect.
Like some drugs for the treatment of gastric ulcers, it is not advisable to drink more water when taking medicine, if you drink more water, it will dilute the drug, so that the drug particles covering the damaged gastric mucosa are reduced, the protective film is thinned, and the therapeutic effect is lost.
When taking cough medicine, it is not advisable to drink more water, children's commonly used cough syrup, the drug is more viscous, after taking the drug will adhere to the pharynx, directly acting on the lesion site, thereby playing an anti-inflammatory and cough effect, if you drink too much water, it will flush away the active ingredient of the pharyngeal drug, so that the concentration of local drugs is reduced, affecting the efficacy of the drug.
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The following medications should not be taken with boiled water
Live bacteria medicine should be used with milk
Live bacteria agent is the use of normal microorganisms or promote the growth of microorganisms made of the preparation, with acid, fear of light, afraid of hot characteristics, so it is not suitable for taking hot water, should be eaten 30 minutes after meals. Drinking some milk before taking the drug or taking it directly with milk is conducive to forming a protective film in the stomach to prevent the damage of gastric acid to the medicinal properties, and the temperature of the milk is best not to exceed 40 ° C. Usually such live bacteria drugs include bifidobacteria capsules, lactase raw, whole intestine raw, yeast tablets and so on.
It is advisable to use rice soup for antipyretic medicine
Antipyretic medicine has the effect of clearing heat and diarrhea, detoxifying and cooling the blood, and the medicinal properties are cold and cold, which is easy to cause irritation to the stomach. The rice soup has a sweet taste and is beneficial to qi and stomach. Taking rice soup as a medicine can not only protect the stomach, but also improve the efficacy of the drug. In addition to antipyretic drugs, laxatives with strong effects, such as rhubarb, glauber's salt, etc., external fever antidotes such as cold punches, guizhi soup, ephedra soup and other drugs, taken with rice soup, are conducive to helping sweating, better protecting the stomach, and giving full play to the medicinal effect.
Six-flavor dihuang pills should be used in light salt water
Liuwei Dihuang Pill is a commonly used proprietary Chinese medicine, composed of Six Flavor Chinese Medicine, which has the effect of nourishing kidney yin. Table salt can enter the kidneys and play a role in introducing drugs. Therefore, taking Liuwei Dihuang Pills with saline as a medicinal introduction can guide the medicinal power to the kidneys to a certain extent and better play the role of tonifying the kidneys. Taking Liuwei Dihuang Pills for a long time is easy to get on fire, and salt tastes salty and cold, and can use the cold nature of salt to clear the fire for patients with kidney yin deficiency and false fire.