The reporter interviewed Zhu Yalan, deputy director of the Pharmacy Department of Jinhua Central Hospital, and sorted out several practical guidelines for medication. Zhu Yalan said, first of all, blindly hoarding drugs will lead to waste. Medicine is a special targeted commodity. Unlike food, medicine is not something you need to eat every day. Blindly hoarding drugs, most drugs may have expired before opening the package, which not only causes waste, but also causes environmental pollution when expired drugs enter the environment. If you take the expired medicine by mistake, it is invalid. In case of adverse consequences, it will not be worth the loss.
Secondly, drugs have their own production cycle, and the output is also configured according to time and demand. If drugs are out of stock because of hoarding, people who really need them will not use them.
"Don't take drugs indiscriminately according to online information, so as not to delay treatment or even cause adverse drug reactions, such as increasing the burden on organs such as the liver and even causing liver damage." Lou Lianqing, director and chief physician of the Infectious Diseases Department of Yiwu Central Hospital, said that there are many common symptoms in COVID-19, and everyone's clinical classification and performance are different, so medication needs to be symptomatic, instead of taking the online version in sequence, so we should not blindly use drugs. In addition, even the common headache and brain fever need the right medicine, which should be analyzed according to everyone's specific situation and used scientifically and reasonably as needed.
It's a three-point poison, so be careful when using it. Some drugs need to be used according to individual circumstances, and different heights, weights or ages may have different usage and dosage. Failure to prescribe the right medicine will not only delay the illness, but also lead to some infectious diseases not being discovered in time, endangering people around. Once you feel unwell, it is the right way to seek medical advice in time. Especially for the elderly and children, self-diagnosis and delayed treatment are prohibited.
What drugs can be kept by the family?
With the purchase of "four types" drugs such as antipyretic drugs, cough drugs, antibiotics and antiviral drugs, it is no longer necessary to carry out nucleic acid detection and coding, and citizens do not need to snap up or hoard drugs, but can buy them according to actual needs. At the same time, with the increasing awareness of health, many families will prepare small medicine boxes at home for emergencies.
Lou Lianqing said that in addition to the impact of the epidemic, we should also be alert to the risk of overlapping epidemics of respiratory infectious diseases such as influenza virus in winter. You can properly store some daily medicines at home, but there is no need to hoard a lot of medicines.
Note that it is "preparation" rather than "hoarding". If citizens have old people or children at home, or are in poor health, they can be fully equipped with basic medicines for basic diseases, a small amount of first-aid medicines and medicines for children, such as cold medicines, antipyretics, diarrhea medicines, antiallergic medicines and iodophors. But antibiotics and antiviral drugs are not reserved drugs, so there is no need to deliberately hoard them.
Instead of hoarding medicine at home, it is better to keep fit, increase immunity and fight against possible diseases.
Lou Lianqing believes that self-protection is more important than the so-called "sense of security" brought by hoarding drugs. "Everyone is the first responsible person for their own health. It is necessary to strengthen personal protection, form the good habit of wearing a mask, washing hands frequently and having fewer parties, ensure adequate sleep, proper exercise and a balanced diet, and enhance your immunity.