The United States banned 40 years of antipyretics, Analgin, China is still giving children
"God! How can a doctor give this medicine to children?"
We took a look at it, it turned out that there was a mother Tucao doctor who gave Analgin injection to the baby who had a fever.
This mother still has a certain discriminating ability, knowing what medicine Analgin is, scared almost want to turn around and go away.
Everyone couldn't help but take a breath.
Has Analgin been eliminated? A little common sense doctor knows that this antipyretic drug has long been deprecated, how can it be given to children?
It’s all negative news when you search for the name of the drug.
At the beginning, we thought that the hospital that prescribes this drug to the mother was in a remote township. When asked, it was a city hospital in a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu.
Later, we found out that many mothers said that their children had been opened to Analgin because of a fever.
Some children were given an Analgin injection, and some children were given an Analgin nose drop.
I thought that Analgin had disappeared for many years. I didn't expect to open Analgin's hospitals and doctors to my children, much more than we thought.
Lilac mother invited the pediatrician Liang Shijia to tell everyone why it is absolutely impossible to use Analgin to have a fever.
01 US banned 40 years Blacklisted by more than 30 countries
Since the 1920s, Analgin has been used as an antipyretic. Because Analgin has a strong antipyretic and analgesic effect, it is widely used in clinical practice.
However, with the widespread use of Analgin, there are more and more cases of serious side effects.
In the 1930s, Sweden reported on the adverse reactions of Analgin. Since then, some developed countries have banned Analgin.
In 1977, the US FDA removed all of Analgin's dosage form from the market because of the serious side effects of Analgin.
In this way, Analgin has been banned in the United States for 40 years.
Subsequently, Analgin was banned in more than 30 countries including Japan, Australia, Iran and several EU member states.
What is embarrassing is that many drugs that have been banned for many years are still widely used in China, and adults and children are eating.
Some township hospitals, health clinics, and even top-level hospitals in prefecture-level cities still open Analgin to patients.
02 How big is the side effect of Analgin?
As written in the Analgin specification, the probability of causing agranulocytosis is about 1.1%.
Let me talk about what is agranulocytosis.
Granulocytes are a type of white blood cells. When bacteria invade your baby, granulocytes are a barrier to your baby's body and protect your baby from harm.
Lack of granulocytes will greatly reduce your baby's immunity and increase your chances of getting infected. For example, an ordinary small cold or bronchial pneumonia may bring irreparable harm to the child.
What is the concept of the 1.1% incidence?
This is equivalent to "everyone taking Analgin, one person may have agranulocytosis", which is a high proportion from a probabilistic point of view.
In addition, there is a bunch of side effects of taking Analgin, and each name is scary:
Thrombocytopenic purpura;
Autoimmune hemolysis;
Aplastic anemia;
Urinary system damage;
03 Taking Analgin's risk of death
In addition to the side effects mentioned above, in the case of skin diseases, taking Analgin may also cause allergic symptoms such as urticaria, exudative erythema, severe anaphylactic shock, and even death.
If you are not aware of the seriousness of the side effects of Analgin, check out the National Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Center for data on Anaginin's adverse reactions:
11 cases of anaphylactic shock, of which 7 died;
16 cases of blood system reaction, 1 case of death;
The skin and its appendages responded to 31 cases and 4 cases died;
Urinary system reaction in 17 cases, 5 cases died;
The above does not include adverse reaction cases included in various local monitoring centers.
The National Center for Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring also provides a typical case of such an adverse reaction, which makes people sad:
A 12-year-old girl was given oral Analgin because of an upper respiratory infection. After taking 8 tablets in a row, she was sent to the hospital because of general malaise. One week later, the little girl died and was diagnosed with acute aplastic anemia.
And such a tragedy could have been avoided.
04 Antipyretics for children are only safe and effective.
If the doctor insists on giving Analgin a fever, what should parents do?
The answer is simple - directly refused, and asked the doctor to give the child the following two drugs to fall back:
"Acetaminophen" and "ibuprofen".
Currently, there are only two types of antipyretics recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for children around the world.
Acetaminophen can be used in babies older than 2 to 3 months, and ibuprofen can be used in babies older than 6 months.
Moreover, as long as the two drugs are taken in doses, there is almost no side effect on the child.
05 Why are domestic doctors still opening Analgin?
In fact, as early as 1982, China's Ministry of Health listed the compound Analgin tablets as phase-out drugs.
Intriguingly, after 35 years, Analgin's tablets, drops and injections are still in use and even given to children.
Do the doctors who give Analgin to their children do not know that Analgin has such terrible side effects?
It is really possible.
The knowledge of doctors at the grassroots level is slow to update, and the adverse reactions of Analgin are not taken seriously, and the case reports of adverse reactions of Analgin are not noticed.
According to their own experience, they believe that Analgin injection has obvious antipyretic and analgesic effects, and Analgin injection is the first choice for fever reduction.
Because the doctor continued to prescribe drugs, and did not explain the side effects to the patients, most people only saw the fasting side of Analgin, but did not know anything about the side effects of Analgin.
Everyone only knows that they have a fever and eat an Analgin. They have a headache and eat an Analgin.
So many people who don't know Analgin's "black history" eat Analgin once and it's a magical effect.
Amway is eating a small number of young people with Analgin fever.
In the era of weak medical foundation, Analgin is indeed a good medicine for fever. But if we have better and safer drugs to replace it, why should we take great risks to achieve rapid fever?
When a doctor prescribes a proprietary Chinese medicine that is not effective, we will eat it as a placebo;
When doctors can't move antibiotics, we don't know how to recognize medicine.
But when the doctor gives our child an Analgin that should have been eliminated, we must refuse.
Some people may say that the medical level varies greatly from country to country. You can't ask all doctors to update their knowledge at any time to reach perfect scores. It is their helpless choice to open Analgin.
But in fact, not giving Analgin to a child is just a "pass" requirement for a doctor or a hospital.
