Restricted medication in children

Stage in the growth and development in children, in the anatomical and physiological characteristics to have significant, and many organs, nervous system development is not yet complete, is extremely sensitive to many drugs, these characteristics determine the drug in vivo in children and adults process different. Specialization as a result of medication, complexity, and to require doctors to use products, doses, formulations, specifications, usage, etc. to make more detailed consideration.

Development in children can be divided into the neonatal period, infant and childhood period in three stages, in different stages of the characteristics of different drugs. Generally speaking, children should not use or disable the following drugs:
1. Tetracyclines Tetracyclines may cause enamel hypoplasia, yellow coloring of teeth and bone growth inhibition, it is prohibited for children under 8 years old. These drugs are as follows: tetracycline, oxytetracycline, doxycycline (doxycycline), minocycline (minocycline), guanidine cyclophilin A, cyclophilin to the United States, the United States and so he cyclophilin.
2. Quinolones such drugs can cause young dogs and other mammals, the bones and joints, especially weight-bearing bone and joint cartilage damage, so the age of 18 minors prohibited. Many of these drugs, commonly used are norfloxacin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, levofloxacin and so on.
3. Hormone drugs such drugs will be covered with inflammatory symptoms, can also be caused by endocrine dysfunction, under normal circumstances should avoid the use of corticosteroids, such as cortisone, prednisone (prednisone), such as dexamethasone. Androgens such as methyltestosterone, testosterone propionate, such as long-term cause premature closure of bone, affecting the growth and development of children, especially children are suffering from chicken pox to disable.
4. Antipyretic analgesics containing pyrazolone compound preparation of the non-caffeine tablets such as ammonia, analgin to pain tablets pain tablets, such as San-li, the effect of antipyretic analgesic sure, but not for pediatric use, it is easy to cause aplastic anemia and thrombocytopenic purpura. Another example is the newborn with the use of aspirin or aspirin causes Reye's agents (Reye's) syndrome (a common feature of acute brain diseases, the fatality rate as high as 50%). Aspirin on infants and young children have damage to the auditory nerve.
Ganmaotong one of the major components of diclofenac sodium, children taking easily cause hematuria, children should not be treated as a common cold medicine, disabled children under the age of 3. Diclofenac sodium sustained-release tablets due to the larger dose (each 75mg), children and young people are unfit for use.
Acetaminophen is the most widely used antipyretic analgesic, and its efficacy, and oral absorption of the rapid, complete, it should be noted that the use of inappropriate doses, and children under the age of 3 should be used with caution.
5. Aminoglycoside drugs such as streptomycin, gentamicin, small Daunomycin, amikacin, sisomicin, such as, for easy use in children caused by auditory nerve and kidney damage, disable children under the age of 6.