Changsha Daddy was in a coma for three days, and it turned out that he had eaten sleeping pills as health care products

Red Net Moment, November 8 (Correspondent Zhou Wei) One early morning last week, Mr. Chen of Changsha suddenly found that his father, who usually used to get up early, was still sleeping deeply until 8 o'clock today, and he could not wake up no matter how he shouted. He realized that the situation was not right, and quickly dialed 120 to send the old man to the emergency medicine department of the Third Hospital of Changsha City.

The emergency doctor inquired about the medical history and learned that the 88-year-old Chen Daddy suffered from bladder cancer, usually lived at his own expense, and often went out for walks; the elderly had no history of trauma, no history of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and no long-term history of medication. The emergency doctor immediately arranged for Daddy Chen to be examined, ruling out the possibility of cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage and brain metastasis of bladder cancer causing coma; chest CT suggested lung infection, blood gas analysis suggested severe hypoxia, considering that Daddy Chen was severely ill with pneumonia caused by cerebral hypoxia, so he was admitted to the thirteenth ward of the Geriatrics Department for hospitalization.

Li Wei, deputy director of the ward, led the medical team to give Daddy Chen anti-infection, awakening, rehydration, high-flow respiratory humidification treatment instrument treatment and other measures. After three days, the old man's sanity fully returned to normal. After Daddy Chen woke up, the medical staff communicated with him and finally learned the truth about his coma for three days: the old man mistook his wife's sleeping pills for health care products the night before the coma, and ate seven or eight tablets at a time!

Li Wei told Daddy Chen and his family that those who mistakenly take sleeping pills may have symptoms such as drowsiness, dizziness, fatigue, etc., and heavy people may have respiratory depression, especially the elderly have slow metabolism, such as taking large doses and not sending them to the hospital in time, which may be life-threatening!

Li Wei introduced: "Situations like Daddy Chen's are very common in geriatrics. "Due to the lack of understanding and cognition of diseases and drugs in the elderly, coupled with memory loss, vision loss and other factors, it is not uncommon for the elderly to take drugs, self-dosing or discontinuation, drug reduction, missed and mistaken medications and other irregular medications." Irregular medication can have a serious adverse effect on the health of the elderly. Missing medications, self-discontinuation or reduction may lead to poor disease control, poor efficacy, and may even aggravate the condition; long-term overdosing will increase the burden of liver and kidney function, while self-addition of other drugs may react with currently taken drugs, which may cause poor treatment effects, and moreover, some drugs taken at the same time can cause more serious adverse reactions. Therefore, the standardized use of drugs and drug management by the elderly need to attract sufficient attention.

Li Wei suggested that the elderly should seek medical treatment in time when the body is unwell, follow the doctor's instructions after a clear diagnosis, and avoid taking medicine at will through their own network search or listening to folk remedies; patients who need to take a variety of drugs for a long time can ask a doctor or pharmacist to list the drugs, classify them according to the efficacy, and write down the dosage, time, frequency, and course of the medication in detail; family members can prepare special drug storage boxes for the elderly, put them in the grid according to the time of taking the drugs (such as morning, middle, and evening), and note the time of taking them on the lid. It should be noted that some drugs may deteriorate after a certain period of time, so before taking it, pay attention to whether the drug has discoloration and abnormal odor; for the elderly who do not have a low level of education, poor vision, alzheimer's disease, anxiety, depression and other symptoms, it is recommended that all drugs be kept by the family, and the daily quantitative drug is issued regularly.