Buy 11 types of cough medicine for your child yourself
Bach Mai Hospital has just treated a 7-year-old patient in Ha Giang who was hospitalized in critical condition because his parents bought medicine to treat his cough at home. The patient came to the hospital with a high fever, an infectious rash, itchy rash all over the body, fatigue, epigastric pain, difficulty breathing, rapid heart rate, and abdominal distension...
The patient's family said that 5 days before being hospitalized, the child had a dry cough and no fever. The family bought more than 11 types of medicine including antibiotics, cough medicine, and anti-inflammatory drugs to take.
After 1 day of taking the medicine, the child had a stomachache, fever of nearly 38 degrees Celsius, itching, and rash all over the body. Seeing this, the family continued to give the child anti-allergy medicine but it did not help. When the child had many red rashes all over his body and it was more itchy, and the pain in his stomach was severe, the family took the child to a nearby hospital for examination. The treatment there did not help, so they transferred him to Bach Mai Hospital.
At the Pediatric Center, Bach Mai Hospital, after a clinical examination and ordering some blood tests, the doctors diagnosed the child with grade 2 anaphylaxis. The cause of the anaphylaxis was a drug allergy, including some antibiotics, expectorants, anti-inflammatory drugs, anti-allergy drugs and some unlabeled pills... Because the child took too many different types of drugs, it was difficult to determine exactly which drug caused the allergy. After more than 1 week of treatment at the hospital, the child was out of danger and gradually recovered.
Doctors at the Pediatrics Center, Bach Mai Hospital, said that anaphylaxis in children is an immediate hypersensitive reaction of the body when allergens from drugs, foods, etc. enter the body. This is a medical emergency that requires rapid diagnosis, emergency care, early treatment, and active treatment to protect the child's life. If the child does not get to the hospital in time, it will be dangerous to their health. Doctors recommend that, with the changing weather, many children suffer from respiratory diseases, parents should not buy medicine to treat their children on their own. Children need to go to medical facilities for doctors to examine and prescribe the right medicine.
I got burned, please come back to treat with traditional medicine
Vietnam - Sweden Uong Bi Hospital (Quang Ninh province) has just received and treated a 2-year-old patient in Dong Trieu, Quang Ninh who was burned by boiling water at home.
Ignoring the doctor's recommendation to transfer their child to a higher level for treatment, the parents took their child home and applied traditional herbal medicine to treat the child's illness. After 2 days of applying the leaves, the burns on the buttocks, genitals, calves, feet, etc. became redder and more oozing. At this point, the family rushed the child to the hospital for treatment.
Another patient with psoriasis is being treated at the Vietnam - Sweden Uong Bi Hospital. Hearing someone say that bathing with leaves would help him recover faster, his family stopped taking the medicine prescribed by the doctor and started bathing with the leaves. After just a few baths, the patient developed many skin burns, accompanied by a feeling of heat, burning, and pain... at that time, the doctors had to make every effort to treat the patient's burns.
Although there have been many warnings that treating burns and skin diseases with traditional medicine, traditional medicine, etc. is dangerous for health, many patients still trust and use them, and as a result, they have to be hospitalized with complications such as ulcers, infected burns, necrosis, etc. By the time the patient seeks help from a doctor, the disease is already severe, difficult to treat, more painful, and even fatal.
