The SARS hoarding Isatis root , the nuclear wastewater salt hoarding incident, and the early COVID-19 mask hoarding incident were all hot events in society at that time. Many people even joked that they had not finished the edible salt they had hoarded back then.
Faced with the continued spread of the new coronavirus epidemic, people are scrambling for and hoarding drugs again. In fact, such a situation is inevitable. After all, this is the instinct of humans or animals, to fear death and survive independently.
But this time the drug hoarding incident has had a great impact on us. Some families have hoarded a large amount of drugs, which has also resulted in many people who are already -positive unable to buy drugs at all. People who really have headaches and brain fever don't need medicine, but those who have nothing to do are filling the drawers at home with medicine.
Many people are positive, but don’t panic. Infection is almost inevitable. Feng Zijian, former deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that during this epidemic, 80%-90% of our people may be infected. This is actually not an exaggeration. In fact, the problem can be explained by the fact that more and more ordinary people or celebrity Vs have exposed themselves as positive for COVID-19 online.
The lethality of the current Omicron virus has been significantly reduced. Many people basically recover within a week after being infected, but it is much more contagious than the delta strain . And when the epidemic situation is relaxed, the infected people will gradually spread. Often, if one person is positive for the infection, soon the whole family will become positive. Contact with the outside world during this period will inevitably cause infection.
This kind of infection is that increases in multiples. One spreads to ten, and ten spreads to hundreds. Therefore, widespread infection is inevitable, but people wearing masks and establishing their own immune barrier will gradually reduce the risk of infection. But according to disease control experts, more than 80% of people will still be infected.
In the face of the epidemic, hoarding drugs in large quantities is of no use, and we should not compete for high-priced drugs.
For example, we can still use the edible salt masks we used to fight for, but the shelf life of the drugs is not very long. In fact, many families cannot use up the large amounts of drugs they rob, and they end up just sitting at home gathering dust and eventually thrown into the trash can. This is undoubtedly a waste of drugs and medical resources, and it is very unfair to patients who really need drugs.
But in the current situation, antipyretic and analgesic drugs are indeed difficult to buy. Here are some rational suggestions that may be of help to you.
. If you want to reduce fever, look at the ingredients of the drug: Acetaminophen!
Many people buy drugs thinking that the more expensive the better, but in fact this is not the case. The first is antipyretic drugs. The main active ingredient is acetaminophen. Many cold medicines and antipyretics contain this ingredient. Acetaminophen is mainly used to treat fever and relieve mild to moderate pain, headaches, joint pain, etc. This is also the ingredient that mainly plays a role in reducing fever.
In the past, when we took antipyretics, there was a kind of big white tablets. One tablet would bring down the fever quickly. In fact, it was acetaminophen tablets , which contained a higher content of acetaminophen and had a better natural effect. Therefore, we want a better fever-reducing effect. When buying drugs, look at the proportion of acetaminophen in them..
Many people buy a lot of cold medicines just to reduce fever, so why not buy acetaminophen tablets that contain a lot of real active ingredients, but buy a lot of medicines with other ingredients added? For example, cold medicines that cost tens of dollars, in fact, the fever-reducing ingredient is acetaminophen, so we try to buy medicines with a high acetaminophen content.
. If you want to stop running nose and sneeze, you can choose chlorphenamine maleate
chlorphenamine maleate also known as primrine , which is a common ingredient in many cold medicines. Its main function is to treat rhinitis , relieve nasal mucosa discomfort, improve runny nose, sneezing and other problems . This is the drug ingredient for treating our runny nose in cold medicine. This is the same as the acetaminophen mentioned above. You can buy separate chlorphenamine maleate tablets.
If the runny nose is severe, you can choose to buy chlorphenamine maleate tablets. costs a few dollars and a small bottle of 100 tablets , which can greatly improve our runny nose and other problems. If you can't buy it, you can also choose the corresponding drug ingredients for , which has more cold medicines , so that you can really prescribe the right medicine and avoid spending money in vain.
3. Supplement vitamin C, don’t blindly pursue effervescent tablets and chewable tablets!
Vitamin C has also been quite in short supply recently, mainly because vitamin C is related to our body immunity . If we want to better fight against virus , it is definitely very important to improve our immunity. Vitamin C can promote the formation of antibodies and to a certain extent enhance personal resistance , so there is no problem to supplement vitamin C, but many people really bought the wrong one!
vitamin C effervescent tablets, vitamin C chewable tablets, many people buy vitamin C in pharmacies these? But it is really a big loss. What you want is vitamin C, not some useless ingredients. For example, effervescent tablets, what is in the chewable tablets? Juice, starch, pigment, is it that I spent dozens or hundreds of dollars to buy these?
A real vitamin C tablet costs a few dollars a bottle, which is the purest vitamin C. However, starch, white sugar, juice, and pigmented turned into chewable tablets, called health products, but in fact it made us waste money. Therefore, if you really want to supplement vitamin C, , please identify pure vitamin C tablets , don’t buy any chewable tablets, effervescent tablets!
In fact, many people are a bit too blind to buy drugs, and they don’t know how to treat the right medicine and spend a lot of money in vain. In fact, no matter what medicine or food we buy, we should learn to look at the ingredients list and be clear about what we want to position it more accurately. Otherwise, not only will we not get the desired effect after we spend money, but that is the real gain is not worth the loss.
Reference materials:
"Don't let children take these medicines together!" Beijing Daily Client 2022-12-17
