Infusions work fast? No, it's actually the most dangerous way to give medicine!

The term "infusion" is used by the general public to refer to a large dose of injectable fluid that is given into the body by intravenous drip. It is used to replace fluids, electrolytes, or provide nutrients by adjusting the rate of the drip through an infusion set and into a vein in a continuous and steady manner.

As a method of drug delivery, infusion naturally has its irreplaceable role. But I don't know when, whether it is adults or children, but there is a headache, brain fever, body weakness, people tend to think of the first to go to the infusion.

Infusion is only for emergency patients, patients with serious illnesses and patients who can not eat the use of "the last way to give medicine", in China, but infusion has become a kind of culture of medical treatment, as if not infusion can not be cured. In the clinic, we often encounter parents who ask for their children's fluids, and even when the doctor explains that they don't need fluids, the parents still ask, "Can I get some fluids to get better faster?

People are endlessly infusing fluids on the one hand, but on the other hand, they know very little about the risks of doing so. In contrast to adults,children are more likely to be at risk with infusions, and intravenous infusions are widely recognized as the most dangerous way of administering medications.

Disadvantages of Intravenous Infusion

(1) The operation of infusion is complicated, requiring certain skills and equipment, and strict sterilization, and can cause pain to the child, especially the child will be psychologically rejected medical treatment;

(2) The needle has to puncture the skin, muscles, and blood vessels, and a little inattention may cause problems, such as infection, puncture of nerves, or injury to blood vessels. Infusion needles penetrate the skin barrier and directly enter the medicinal solution into the bloodstream, requiring strict asepsis. If the medication is contaminated during production or storage, or if disposable needles are not used, or if the skin at the site of the needle is not sterilized, it is possible for viruses and germs to enter the body, which can cause local inflammation, or in severe cases, the pathogens can spread throughout the body with the blood and cause sepsis, which is life-threatening.

(3) During infusion, a large number of patients stay in a space for a long time, especially patients with poor resistance, it is easy to cross-infection, and even the risk of intravenous infusion may occur, such as infusion reaction: the patient's sudden chills, chills, fever, and accompanied by nausea, vomiting, headache, rapid pulse, and peripheral discomfort and other symptoms. Infusion reactions cannot be absolutely avoided in the course of clinical treatment.

(4) Any good quality injection can not reach the ideal "zero particles" standard. Intravenous fluid in the presence of insoluble particles, these particles are invisible to the human eye, into the body's circulatory system, can not be metabolized in the body, may cause blockage of small blood vessels, granulomas, and other varying degrees of impact. Prolonged infusion often leads to venous inflammation, redness, swelling and pain, localized temperature increase, and even sclerosis.

Whether a child needs an infusion should be judged by a doctor

In reality, some parents know that it's not good for a child to have an infusion, but because of the lack of medical knowledge about whether a child needs an infusion, it's often better to have an infusion.

In fact, whether to choose the infusion, mainly depends on two aspects : one is to look at the nature of the selected drugs , such as some antibiotics or some other need to liquid dilution dissolution of intravenous drugs; two is to look at suffering from what kind of disease , for example, severe infections require large doses of drugs, and the other is to look at the disease. A serious infection that requires high doses of antibiotics, or a high fever, diarrhea, etc. leads to loss of body fluids and symptoms of severe dehydration, the need to replenish fluids and loss of electrolytes, and so on.