My friend's child has always been in great health before going to kindergarten, as if he has never had a cold and fever, but since he went to kindergarten at the beginning of this year, he has been sick every three or five days, and some time ago he repeatedly recurred fever and cough, and went to the hospital for examination and was diagnosed with pneumonia, and he was infusion in the hospital for several days. However, after I was sent to the kindergarten for a few days, I started coughing again, thinking that it was not good, so I took some medicine, including the azithromycin left from last time, and the licorice tablets prepared at home, and I ate some together.
As a result, three days after taking the two medicines, my friend suddenly received a call from the kindergarten teacher when he was at work, saying that the child had suddenly fainted during the activity and had been sent to the hospital. My friend left her job and ran to the hospital, where the doctor was resuscitating, and my friend called her husband while crying, and the child's father came not long after. Fortunately, the child was fine later, but why the child suddenly fainted made her friend puzzled, and she even suspected that it was the teacher's fault.
Later, after learning about the child's condition, the doctor explained that the child's fainting was most likely caused by medication.
What's wrong with medication?
1. Azithromycin is a common antibiotic, and as a macrolide antibiotic, one of its side effects is that it will prolong the OT interval, and even induce ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, etc., which directly leads to sudden death.
2. Licorice tablets are also a very familiar medicine, cough suppressant effect is good and cheap, in the past, it was a must-have medicine at home, but now because of drug safety issues, it has been restricted from purchasing. One of the side effects of licorice tablets is that it will accelerate the loss of potassium, resulting in a drop in blood potassium, if not corrected in time, it may lead to hypokalemia, and low blood potassium is also easy to lead to arrhythmia, and even heart failure, sudden death, endangering the patient's life.
Because of this, after taking azithromycin and licorice tablets at the same time, the 3-year-old child was relatively weak and carried out activities, so he had arrhythmia and fainted suddenly.
The experience of a friend's child also reminded parents that medicine must not be eaten indiscriminately, not by themselves, let alone children, even if it is just a common cold, we must follow the doctor's instructions to take medicine, after all, this is a major event related to life.
Be vigilant: The compatibility and contraindications of these commonly used drugs at home must be known!
1. Cold remedies containing acetaminophen
Many people like to take several cold medicines together when they have a cold, and feel that it is good to eat a few more, but they don't know that many of the cold medicines we commonly use contain acetaminophen, such as Tylenol, exclamation mark, white and black and other well-known cold medicines, as well as Sanjiu Cold Ling, VC Yinqiao Tablets and other Chinese patent medicines, which all contain acetaminophen, if a variety of drugs are taken together, resulting in excessive acetaminophen intake, it may cause serious liver damage.
2. Ibuprofen and aspirin
Ibuprofen, which was "hard to find" at the peak of the new crown, is estimated to have now become a must-have medicine at home, and when you usually have a toothache, headache, dysmenorrhea and other symptoms, everyone also chooses ibuprofen, but for middle-aged and elderly people who have been taking aspirin for a long time, you should pay attention. Because ibuprofen and aspirin are both non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, the combination of the two will increase gastrointestinal toxicity, irritate the gastric mucosa, cause abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, etc., and seriously cause gastric ulcers, gastric bleeding, etc., especially for patients with gastric problems, it is important to pay attention not to use them together.
3. Huoxiang Zhengqi water and cephalosporins
We all know that you must not drink alcohol after taking cephalosporin antibiotics, and you can no longer eat cephalosporin after drinking, this is because there is a "disulfiram-like reaction" between the two, that is to say, alcohol is decomposed into acetaldehyde in the body, and cephalosporin will inhibit acetaldehyde to continue to metabolize, resulting in accumulation in the body, causing poisoning, which can cause breathing difficulties in severe cases, and even directly fatal. Huoxiang Zhengqi Water contains alcohol, and if it is used with cephalosporin, especially when taken in large quantities, it may bring serious consequences.
4. Vitamin C and erythromycin
As a commonly used antibiotic, erythromycin has a good therapeutic effect on a variety of infections, so it is also one of the common drugs in many families, and vitamin C, as a health care product, is also quite popular, especially after experiencing the new crown, many people eat vitamin C every day in order to enhance their resistance. It stands to reason that there is no match between the two, but because erythromycin is an alkaline drug, while vitamin C is acidic, the combination of the two will lead to a decrease in the efficacy of erythromycin, so it is not recommended to take it at the same time. In addition, there are also alkaline antacids such as sodium bicarbonate, aluminum hydroxide, etc., which will also have an effect.