A lot of people don't care about colds. They feel that they can always take some medicine. When the cold gets worse, people even get sick and rush into the hospital, buy a bunch of cold medicine, or flip all kinds of drugs out of their homes, and stuff them in their stomachs. I don't know, it could be fatal!
A 27-year-old Chinese graduate student died seven days after he was admitted to hospital, and doctors infer that the culprit is probably a few small cold pills, according to his description.
01, 27-year-old senior student died 7 days after admission, unexpectedly because of mixed cold medicine!
"it hurts! The child was too young, and the time was short, and the incident was sudden, and it would have been possible to avoid it. " 7 days, two tertiary level A hospital, a number of 10 top medical staff, using state-of-the-art rescue measures and equipment, but still did not save his life.
No one thought, 27-year-old student Xiao Zhang because of a cold and medical treatment, but eventually rescue ineffective and died!
Xiao Zhang (alias) is a 27-year-old graduate student studying in Nanjing. He studied economic management, excellent results, hard work. Although small Zhang is tall, but the body shape is fat, the weight reaches 250 jin, therefore suffers from fatty liver.
Recently, Xiao Zhang caught a cold and thought it would pass, but the cold became more and more serious, and even started to rise. Unable to do so, Xiao Zhang went to the drugstore to buy many kinds of cold medicine.
According to Xiao Zhang's roommate, there are a lot of cold medicine on his desk, all kinds of names. Xiao Zhang eat this, eat that, according to the maximum dose, mixed cold medicine to eat. Eat or do not work, persistent fever does not retreat, and then the situation of diarrhoea. Fever for 7 days, accompanied by diarrhoea for 5 days, after a week of colds, Zhang really can't stand to come to the hospital to see a doctor.
Originally thought that just hit a few hanging bottles, did not expect to enter the intensive care unit rescue! After blood examination, Dr. Li startled: high fever more than 40 degrees, dyspnea, blood pressure drop, renal failure, liver failure, serious coagulation dysfunction!
This series of symptoms shows that Xiao Zhang is not a common cold at all, rising to 5 organ system failure! In the course of various tests, Xiao Zhang suddenly fainted, appeared shock symptoms, and was sent to intensive care unit for rescue.
The unfortunate thing still happened. On the 7th day of admission, due to severe liver failure, resulting in too low blood sugar, coma Xiao Zhang had not had time to replace the liver, because the rescue was ineffective and died forever.
Dr. Li said that through the diagnosis of blood pathogen tests, leading to the loss of Xiao Zhang's life is the culprit: herpes simplex virus infection!
And this virus is actually one of the many common viruses that usually cause us to catch a cold, and Dr Li concluded that it was probably a mixture of cold drugs that led to liver and kidney failure.
Xiao Zhang takes a variety of cold medicine must be the last straw to crush his liver function! He already has fatty liver, usually the body does not suffer a blow, liver function still can maintain. But once hit, it may not work. Cold virus infection itself can hurt the liver, drugs hurt the liver, layers of accumulation, collapse.
02, mixed cold medicine can lead to liver failure! This is not a bluff!
In fact, the tragedy caused by mixed use of cold medicine is by no means the only one. It is reported that in the 1980s, there were many patients worried about doctors, to see a number of hospitals, each doctor prescribed drugs mixed together, causing organ failure. In recent years, the number of such cases has gradually increased.
After she got the flu, Ms. Sun in Wuhan went to the drugstore to buy Tylenol, quick-acting cold capsule and compound paracetamol capsule. These three cold drugs were taken together. As a result, on the third day after taking the medicine continuously, Ms. Sun felt weak, nausea and vomiting. Symptoms such as less urine, even the lower limbs also have signs of swelling, diagnosed by the doctor, this is an acute renal failure disease!
Jinan 4-year-old Xiao Qiang was also fed 5 kinds of cold by his grandmother after the cold, after systemic allergy, was sent to the emergency room, may cause serious liver and kidney damage. Jiang Yuli, director of Jiangsu Provincial people's Hospital, reminded everyone:
Cold medicine had better not mix eat, 1-1 is not greater than 2!
Perhaps many people believe that the over-the-counter anti-cold drug, which appears to be a safety drug, has different effects and is not enough to cause fatal harm to the health and safety of the human body. The truth, however, is not. What you should know is that at present, the cold drugs on the market basically contain "acetaminophen", this acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, is currently commonly used in the clinical antipyretic analgesic. About 80% of anti-cold drugs contain acetaminophen.
For example, we have a more common cold drug, which contains 325 mg of paracetamol per tablet, 500 mg of paracetamol per tablet and 650 mg of paracetamol per tablet of tenolin. Ganmaoling granules each bag contains 200 mg of acetaminophen.
Not only that, most antipyretic drugs and painkillers contain acetaminophen! Many patients feel that the name of the drug is different and can be taken together, but they do not know that it is likely to cause paracetamol overdose, resulting in toxic myolysis and liver and kidney failure.
According to pharmacist Jiang Yuli, adults should not take more than 500 mg of acetaminophen at a time, the interval between two doses should not be less than 6 hours, the maximum daily intake should not exceed 2000 mg, and the course of treatment should not exceed 3 days.
Children were given 10 mg / kg BW, 15 mg / kg / kg, or 1.5 g / m2 / day according to body surface area, once every 4 hours for 6 hours, and children under 12 years of age were not more than 4 times every 24 hours, and the course of treatment was not more than 5 days. In other words, adults who mix two or three cold drugs basically overdose paracetamol.
We should not ignore this problem, according to clinical studies, about 25% of explosive liver failure and nearly 50% of liver dysfunction is related to the use of drugs, of which acetaminophen is the leading cause of acute liver failure and the need for liver transplantation drug.
Chiang explained that any drug needs to be metabolized by the liver. If there is only one drug, the liver can deal with it. If you take another drug, if you overdose it, the liver will probably not be able to take it, which can lead to damage. Not only that, the hematopoiesis system will also have problems, serious may also induce leukemia.
Of course, experts also explain that this has to vary from person to person, depending on the individual's physical fitness, the symptoms are not the same. Healthy people may not have significant pathological reactions in a short period of time, but they can still cause serious physical damage. And the physique weaker old person, the child or the liver function itself existence problem crowd, should pay special attention!
Doctors recommend that older patients take 30% to 40% less doses for colds containing acetaminophen and avoid long-term use. Liver function insufficiency, kidney function insufficiency, heart function insufficiency, serious coronary heart disease and pregnant women, should avoid using this medicine as far as possible.
03, take these cold medicine must pay attention!
Lin Zhong, director of the Medical and Pharmacy Department, suggests that if a mild cold does not affect normal life, it should pay more attention to rest, drink more boiled water, and do not need to take cold medicine. If you take the medicine, be sure to follow the instructions, choose one, try to avoid taking two or more anti-cold drugs at the same time.
Look out! In general, take cold medicine principle is: can take one kind of medicine, do not take two kinds of medicine!
If you want to take two or more anticolds, be sure to use them under the guidance of your doctor.
Don't worry about eating it! If you take medicine for a cold for three or four days and don't get better, hurry up and go to the hospital.
The following is a must-know knowledge of medication
Compound glycyrrhizin tablets: no longer than 7 days
Compound glycyrrhizin tablets are currently prescription drugs, under the guidance of the pharmacist, according to the prescribed dose and course of treatment. Prescription dosage should not exceed 3 days, continuous use of drugs can not exceed 7 days oh.
If long-term use can lead to many adverse effects, it has some addiction, can cause gastrointestinal reactions, such as constipation, and nausea and vomiting.
Cough lotion: more than 60 milliliters at a time can excite. Cough medicine compound codeine phosphate solution, the ingredients contain codeine, ephedrine, oral more than 60 milliliters, some people will appear excited, restless and other symptoms. Taking large doses can be addictive, producing pleasure and hallucinations, causing harm to the body.
Run throat tablet: eat too much can cause oral disease. In the absence of inflammation in the oral cavity or the causes of inflammation is not clear, often take run throat tablets, easy to inhibit and kill the oral normal bacteria, but may lead to oral ulcers, tonsillitis and other diseases. But many run throat tablet contains borneol ingredient, its nature is cold, may aggravate spleen stomach deficiency cold, cause diarrhea, even cause pregnant woman abortion.