Children's traditional Chinese medicine should be customized

The 2018-09-05 health

There are the following characteristics in the use of traditional Chinese medicine for internal treatment of pediatrics. Second, use medicine in a timely and prudent manner; Third, the disease in the period of treatment should not be long; Fourth, the dosage of adults can not be simply converted to children, must be age, individual differences, the severity of the disease, and use a reasonable dose.

The dose of Chinese medicine is not necessarily small

Due to the short time of medication for children and the waste of medication, the dosage of pediatric traditional Chinese medicine is relatively larger than that of adults by age, especially the traditional Chinese medicine that benefits qi and invigorates spleen, nourishes Yin and nourishes blood, nourishes Yin and nourishes blood, and is even more so. However, for the more violent drugs such as symphthermia, bitter cold, attack and medicine, they must be used strictly in proportion. Can press adult traditional Chinese medicine general dosage is accurate, undertake commutation is calculated: if the newborn USES adult amount 1/6, the infant is adult amount 1/3 ~ 1/2, the infant and young child are adult amount 2/3, school-age children USES adult amount. Adult general dosage can be according to the standard set by "prescription dosage" or "Chinese pharmacopoeia", but it is by no means the maximum dosage, let alone the doctor's personal experience dosage. In the specific calculation of consumption, a few points should be noted:

Disease weight is different, dosage should change somewhat: if serious and urgent disease child, can according to the condition needs increase dosage, if treat heat and temperature syndrome (epidemic b encephalitis), high heat, coma, convulsion, clear heat detoxification Chinese traditional medicine such as raw gypsum, banlan root, lithospermum, forsythia, all need big dosage to be effective. It may exceed the adult dose, but it can be important to save lives.

The dosage of traditional Chinese medicine varies with the amount of herbal medicine: for those prescriptions with less medicinal taste, the dosage can be slightly increased as long as they are not aggressive or toxic. For example, in the prescription for nourishing deficiency, only four flavors, namely, radix pseudostellariae, rhizoma atractylodis, poria cocos and liquorice, each dosage can be increased by 1/4 ~ l/3. In the case of premature neonates, the body is weak in various functions, and it is often taken in the decoction of 3 ~ 4.5 grams of monoflavoured direct ginseng, with the dosage exceeding 2~4 times of the proportion. If the more flavorful prescription, the main drug does not decrease, the auxiliary drug can be appropriately reduced.

Strictly control the dosage of medicine: there are two kinds of Chinese medicine to strictly control the dosage. One kind is the medicine that medicinal property turns off heat, slant cold, or have cause vomiting the action, besides want careful use, once enter prescription, in principle press above scale dosage, but want to strengthen observation, in ill namely stop. The other kind of medicine is acute medicine and poisonous traditional Chinese medicine. This kind of medicine has special management and use requirements, which must be strictly implemented and should be avoided in children. When special cases need to be applied, they should start from the minimum and consider the appropriate increase according to the change of the disease condition. Once the disease has decreased, it should be stopped.

The dosage of decoction is generally not large

Because the child takes medicine quantity to compare adult is less, need to fry only commonly once, do not need to like adult decoction so decoction decoction is Fried on the head, two decoction. The amount of medicine decocted can be determined according to the age of children: the decoction consumed by newborn babies only needs to be decocted for about 50ml per day, the infant is 60ml ~ 100ml, the infant and young children (1~6 years old) are 150ml ~ 200ml, and the school-age children (7~12 years old) should be decocted to 250ml, and the above amount is the conventional decoction.

According to the condition, it is necessary to flexibly control the amount of decoction, such as the high fever of viral cold, which does not recede. It is very effective to use the traditional Chinese medicine for dispersing pathogenic factors and clearing heat and detoxification. However, if the dosage is not limited to the above, more decoction can be made appropriately, and it can be taken 3-4 times. And the child with weak spleen and stomach of prime body, if sicken hind needs to take Chinese traditional medicine decoction, decoction dosage of decoction can condense a few, more than above amount reduces 1/3 left and right sides, lest cause nausea, vomiting.