Children eat Liushen Pill poisoning symptoms?

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Liushen Pill, a Chinese patent medicine, has been used for more than 250 years in China. Because it has some valuable medicinal ingredients, it is regarded as a "good medicine" in many people's minds and has become a common medicine in people's homes. However, in recent years, due to improper use of Liushen Pill in some families, it has caused side effects and even life-threatening. In this regard, the reporter recently interviewed some experts of traditional Chinese medicine, they explained the following medication knowledge about the drug. Children eat Liushen Pill poisoning symptoms? Let's talk about it.

Children eat Liushen Pill poisoning symptoms?

The main ingredients of Liushen Pill are bezoar, musk, toad venom, realgar, borneol and pearl. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxin, detumescence and pain relief. It is commonly used in sore throat, tonsillitis, oral erosion, gingivitis, carbuncle, sore furuncle, nameless swelling and pain, etc. In recent years, through pharmacological research, it has been found that Liushen Pill has cardiotonic, anticonvulsant, sedative and other effects, so its use has been extended to the treatment of diseases in internal medicine, external medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, facial features, skin and other specialties. However, if the abuse of Liushen pills, it is very easy to cause adverse reactions, serious cases will be life-threatening. But people haven't paid enough attention to it.

Why does taking Liushen Pill lead to drug poisoning? The main reason is that Liushen Pill contains toad venom, and its active ingredient is toad toxin. Once Liushen Pill is abused, some people will be poisoned if they overdose it once, while others will be poisoned if they overdose it many times; The time from poisoning to taking medicine was 20 minutes fast, 0.5-2 hours slow, and more than 12 hours in some cases. Therefore, the indications and dosage of Liushen pills should be strictly controlled, especially for children and newborns.

Liushen pills can also cause allergic reactions. This has nothing to do with the dosage of the drug, and it will happen whether it is taken orally or externally. Most of the allergic reactions of Liushen pills occurred within 24 hours of medication, manifested as drug eruption, irregular shape and itching; There are also some allergic patients with laryngeal edema, individual severe cases will appear anaphylactic shock, need immediate rescue.

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Liushen Pill contains musk and other ingredients, which can cause uterine contraction, so it is forbidden for pregnant women. In addition, Liushen Pill also contains realgar, which is an arsenic compound. It is not suitable to take Liushen Pill together with multienzyme tablets, pepsin and anti anemia horseradish iron, because it will reduce or lose the effect of these drugs; It should not be combined with antispasmodic and analgesic atropine drugs, because it will promote the oxidation of Realgar and increase the toxic reaction.