Thoughts on Pediatric Chinese Patent Medicines Based on Clinical Application Characteristics / 中国实验方剂学杂志

ABSTRACT

The common diseases in pediatrics department include respiratory diseases, digestive diseases, immune system diseases, and skin system diseases. Bronchitis, bronchial asthma, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases are common pediatric diseases, mainly with the symptoms of fever, cough, and runny nose, and are mostly related to children's physical weakness. Pediatric digestive diseases mainly include anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea and constipation. Skin system diseases mainly include tinea diseases such as tinea capitis, tinea pedis, and tinea corporis, allergic diseases such as urticaria and eczema, scorpions, sunburn and other skin diseases. Children are special groups for drug use, as their body is in the stage of growth and development and their organs are not yet mature, with strong susceptibility to disease, low stress ability, and not sensitive to drug reactions. Therefore, special requirements shall be noticed on the drug use and dosage. Children are the future of the country, but we have so many problems in pediatric drug use. It is worth pondering about pediatric drug use. Chinese patent medicine is a traditional Chinese medicine preparation in the forms of pills, powder, cream, pellet, and oral liquid, which is processed according to the laws and prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine and the rule of syndrome differentiation and treatment experience, mostly of a compound preparation. This is the essence of medical practice after thousands of years of experience. At present, the commonly used dosage forms for Chinese patent medicine are tablets, pills, capsules, oral liquids and powders. Pediatric Chinese patent medicines have the advantages of mild nature, ease of use, stable content, controllable dose-effect, and exact curative effect, so they are widely used in clinical applications. In order to ensure the effectiveness and safety of pediatric Chinese patent medicine, we should strictly grasp some considerations on pediatric Chinese patent medicine due to the particularity of pediatric patients. This paper would analyze the problems in the application of pediatric Chinese patent medicines and the corresponding countermeasures to improve the accessibility of pediatric medication.