[]: According to the United Kingdom the Sunday Telegraph reports on 1 March, the United Kingdom Government's drug safety management of institutions found that 69 commonly used over-the-counter cold and cough medicines for children not only doesn't work, but also may cause a variety of side effects or even death.
The institutions that want to guard against most cold cough medicine containing 15 ingredients, it is these elements bring the dangerous side effects. Our pharmacists that basically sold in China for a cold, cough class of Western medicine inside contains these elements.
MHRA cited reports that at least 5 two-year-old children from this kind of cold medicine overdose death, but there are more than 100 severe cases of adverse reactions, in some cases, children had to because drug reactions and hospitalization.
MHRA said to guard against most cold cough medicine containing 15 ingredients, it is these elements bring the dangerous side effects. These components include the nasal mucosa vasoconstriction of pseudoephedrine, ephedrine and phenylephrine (phenylephrine), hydroxy methyl imidazoline, Marcelo imidazoline; antihistamines – diphenhydramine, chlorpheniramine, promethazine, triprolidine, anti-allergy Ann; cough suppression of dextromethorphan, Kufuor may fix and for sputum of guaifenesin, spit the root.
Currently, the United Kingdom drug store sold in most cold cough medicine containing this 15 ingredients. MHRA received reports show that taking it contains this 15 ingredients of drugs, there are dozens of people died and more than 3000 people appear harmful reaction ".
In the United Kingdom appear in cases of child deaths, mainly because of the excessive use of histamine and ephedrine, which causes arrhythmia, coma; the latter will lead to increased heartbeat and blood pressure, the ingredients are common in the treatment of cough medicines.
■ Experts say
306 hospital pharmacy Department, Deputy Director of gang that pharmacists, basically our sale of colds, cough class of Western medicine inside contains the 15 kinds of components, such as concrete ', new-release capsules, exclamation points, etc.
Deputy Director of gang reminded that cold, cough medicine is the main class is designed for adults, children medication be ever so careful, and as far as possible without Western medicine, clinical use of more traditional classes. Parents to their children cough symptoms, you can use the brine, honey relieve symptoms.
Security issues for cold medicine, Sohu health first interviewed the famous for ADR experts, national Ministry of health in rational drug use monitoring network experts, former Navy General Hospital pharmacy director Prof. Sun faithful.
Professor Sun faithful, in China's market sales of cold medicine basic contains the above three groups of constituents, but have not yet received the children died because of taking cold medicine of serious adverse reaction reports, mainly because some flustered, nausea and vomiting, and headache and other adverse reactions.
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