Grandma took a blood pressure medicine. The 3-year-old baby was curious. Grandma said it was a sugar baby, but the result was tragic!
Feeding medicine to a one-year-old baby is a big problem for parents, because some medicines are slightly bitter, and the baby will refuse to take them. Some parents want to force-feed their child, but worry about choking on the baby. So they use coaxing and put the medicine in an empty milk bottle or a drink bottle. If it is a pill, some parents will say it is sugar and coax the child to eat it, but in these ways, there may also be potential dangers.
When I was in my hometown a few years ago, because there were rice grains in the room, of course there were mice, so I put rat poison in the corner of the room. Who would have guessed that this rat poison almost killed the child. One morning I went to the second floor to dry clothes. My son was playing at the door with other children. When I finished drying my clothes and went downstairs, I saw several children in the room holding a bag of food to eat. I looked closer and it turned out to be a mouse. The medicine was found by them, and they were so scared that they hurriedly grabbed it. Fortunately, they saw it in time and did not eat it.
Three-year-old Yaya likes to eat candy very much, but her mother is worried that she will have tooth decay if she eats too much sugar, so she always hides it. In the past few days, Yaya is sick. The coaxing Yaya said it was sugar, so Yaya took the medicine obediently.
But after lunch, grandma was taking antihypertensive drugs, Yaya looked at grandma and asked, grandma, are you eating sugar too? Can you give me something to eat? Grandma smiled and said, this sugar is bitter, you can't eat it. After grandma finished taking the medicine, she put the medicine bottle in the cupboard. When Yaya saw it, she was very curious, so she moved a chair and rummaged in the cabinet. After finding it, she hid and ate. Unexpectedly, after a while, Yaya was still suffering from stomach pain. Grandma ran over to see that all the remaining pills in the bottle had been eaten up by Yaya, so she quickly called and called an ambulance. But because of the large amount of food, Yaya was not rescued in the end.
The Global Child Safety Organization, the Drug Safety Cooperation Alliance, and the Beijing Children's Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University jointly released a "Report on the Status of Children's Medication Safety", which tracks data from the two hospitals for five years. There are more than 1,500 children aged 0 to 4 every year. Among the deaths from poisoning, 86.4% of the poisoning occurred at home, and 44% of the poisoning caused moderate to severe injuries. Seeing these data is really shocking. Many times, it is a tragedy caused by parents coaxing and children taking it by mistake.