What happens when parents are overdosing on antibiotics in children who became ill due to a bacterial infection ?
For example , a given dose of 0.25 mg should , instead giving parents as much as 0.75 mg per day . Dangerous are ?
dr . Fransisca Handy , SpA , IBCLC , representatives of community Health Mailing List , in a talk show that was held at the Social Media Festival 2013 explains , that every drug has a half-life , and will be eliminated through the liver or kidneys . For dangerous overdosing or not , in the long term does not exist . With notes , new parents do this once , and not repeated in the next time .
"If once or twice , no long-term effects . 's To certain doses , it has been clinically tested , that should be right in the administration , " said the doctor on duty at the Pondok Indah Puri Indah Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, University of Pelita Harapan , Jakarta , written on Tuesday ( 10/15/2013 ) .
But ideally , it's good for parents to adhere to the guidelines given by the doctor . Therefore , it would maintain drug levels in the blood . " So far it is not dangerous , just do not let it happen again , " he added .
Antibiotics , described Fransisca , a drug that can prevent the proliferation of a variety of bacteria that causes a disease . And keep in mind , that antibiotics can not prevent illness caused by a virus .
" When a parent gives a child antibiotics in disease caused by a virus , then the virus will not get killed , but the good bacteria in the body of the child . And it was not to happen , " he concluded .
