Remind children to reduce fever medicine nimesulide can cause child death.
reporter learned from the 2010 International Forum on child safety drugs held in Beijing that the safety of children's drug use has become a global concern. Experts point out that the irrational use of children's drugs is one of the main causes of the hidden dangers of drug safety for children, which is manifested in antibiotics, antipyretic and analgesic drugs, health care products and the irrational use of Chinese medicine.
for children, fever is one of the most common symptoms in children, so the use of antipyretic analgesics is frequent. The most commonly used antipyretic drugs for children, such as nimesulide, aspirin and antipyretic use in children, have a greater risk of adverse reactions due to their components. Experts point out that children should use these drugs carefully.
the speech of the participating experts showed that when Ni Mei Shug Leigh used for children's fever, there were frequent cases of injuries to the central nervous system and liver. According to the Chinese drug adverse reaction monitoring center (ADR), thousands of adverse events have occurred in the 6 years of Ni Mei Shug Leigh's listing in China, and even several cases of death have been reported. According to experts, in 2007, the EU drug review Bureau issued a comprehensive ban on nimesulide children under 12 years of age, and stressed the special warning of the risk of serious liver damage in the instructions. In the United States, Ni Mei Shug Leigh's use of children has never been approved.
at the same time, experts also pointed out that acetaminophen and ibuprofen recommended by the WHO were the preferred safety drugs for children's safe fever.