By the way, because the children's immune system is not yet perfect, headaches, fever, colds and coughs are common. Every time I get sick, I can't avoid taking some cold powders, cough syrup and other medicines.

: As the children's immune system is not yet perfect, headaches, fever, colds and coughs are common.

Every time I get sick, I can't avoid taking some cold powders, cough syrup and other medicines.

However, recently some children's cough syrups and cold syrups produced in India have been produced, and

has changed from a good medicine for curing diseases to a "poison" that harms people...

WHO warns that the laboratory confirmed by analyzing samples that a 32-year-old New Delhi, India. Among the four syrup and oral liquid drugs produced by Ltd. Pharmaceuticals, contains "unacceptable doses" of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol .

diethylene glycol is an organic compound, colorless, almost odorless, toxic and hygroscopic. It is often used to make paint, ink, and industrial solvents for brake fluid .

mistakenly eats it and will cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, kidney pain and other symptoms;

ethylene glycol is the simplest diol , colorless, odorless, and sweet. It is usually used as a solvent, antifreeze and raw material for synthesizing polyester .

ethylene glycol is poisoned to animals. Humans inhaled, consumed or absorbed through the skin will be poisoned. Inadvertent ingestion will cause symptoms of central nervous system . In mild cases, similar to ethanol poisoning, and in severe cases, rapid coma and convulsions, which will eventually lead to death.

After taking these contaminated drugs, the patient's brain, lungs, liver and kidneys will be damaged.

These contaminated drugs include Kofexmalin infant cough syrup, Makoff infant cough syrup, Magrip N cold syrup and promethazine hydrochloride oral liquid,

WHO suspects they are related to dozens of deaths in children.

As early as 2019, similar child deaths occurred in India.

That winter, some children suffered from colds and coughs, and local doctors prescribed cough syrup for them.

Not only did they not improve after taking the medicine, but they instead developed more serious conditions, such as vomiting, high fever and renal failure. When people found that cough syrup might be problematic, had 11 children between 2 months and 6 years old died unfortunately.

After testing, three types of cough syrup samples produced by an Indian pharmaceutical company called Digital Vision contain diethylene glycol. After ingestion by

, renal failure is a very common symptom.

It is reported that since 1972, there have been five large-scale drug poisoning incidents in India, killing more than 70 people (mainly children).

And this year, contaminated drugs seem to have appeared again.

WHO believes that those drugs may be related to child deaths in several countries.

For example, African countries Gambia , The government is investigating many children's kidney damage and deaths in 66 children.

These children under 5 years old have taken cold cough syrup produced by the Maiden Pharmaceuticals factory in India, and fell ill after three to five days.

0-month-old boy Musa died in September this year after taking a cough syrup.

His mother said that after they fed Musa the syrup, he stopped urinating.

The parent immediately took him to the hospital and first ruled out malaria , but after treatment, insertion of a urethra catheter, and even undergoing surgery, the boy still did not urinate, and the doctor ultimately failed to save his life.

Musa's mother hopes to investigate the matter clearly and give her son an explanation.

At present, the Gambian government has begun to recall problematic syrup imported by India.

and Indonesian . Last week, the Indonesian Pediatricians Association (IDAI) confirmed that this year in Jakarta has died of acute renal failure.

Moreover, in 2022, there were 131 cases of mysterious acute renal failure in children in Indonesia.

Most of the children are under 5 years old and the symptoms appear uniform, including fever, cough, runny nose, diarrhea, vomiting, etc.

Within a day, their urination began to decrease, and they even did not urinate.

They usually do not have the problem of urination difficulty urinating , but the kidneys suddenly no longer produce urine. Even if they insert the catheter, there is no urine. I have found that there is no urine at all for B-ultrasound.

Further examination found that many organs of the children have inflammation, such as the liver,

They also have blood system problems, such as abnormal coagulation function.

Indonesian health department is working with WHO staff to investigate, hoping to find out whether these acute renal failure events in children are related to syrup imported from India.

Indonesian drug regulatory department said that none of these syrups were registered in Indonesia.

Indonesian Pediatrician Association also reminds parents to pay attention to observing their children's condition, especially urination.

If parents find that their children's urine volume is reduced or they do not urinate at all, they need to take their children to the hospital immediately.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Adhanom Adhanom said two weeks ago that contaminated drugs have been found in Gambia, and these drugs may have been sold to more countries.

They recommend that all countries strengthen testing and stop the circulation of these drugs in case anyone continues to suffer.

Indian health department found 12 violations in the factory of the Maiden Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceuticals factory where the accident occurred, and has ordered its production to be suspended.

Indian Prime Minister Modi calls India the "world pharmacy" and

India is very good at generic drugs, so it has become a global low-cost drug base.

But India also often has problems in terms of drug quality.

fake medicines are rampant in India, mostly sold in small towns and villages.

Moreover, many state-owned drug testing laboratories are insufficient funds, insufficient staff, simple equipment, and poor supervision and law enforcement, resulting in some inferior drugs flowing to the market.

Whether doctors or patients, they often cannot distinguish which are fake drugs and which are inferior drugs.

In 2014, the Indian Drug Administration told a newspaper that

"If we follow the American standards, we must shut down all pharmaceutical factories."

Official records show that between 2007 and 2020, more than 7,500 drug samples taken in 28 states and three federal territories in India failed the quality inspection and were labeled as "low quality drugs". The reasons why

fail the quality inspection include insufficient chemical components in the drug, insufficient dissolution capacity in the patient's blood, or contamination.

Every unqualified sample represents a batch of drugs, that is, hundreds of thousands of doses of tablets, capsules and injections.

Mr Thakur, who studies the issue of drug regulation in India, said that

"In the past decade, patients affected by such inferior drugs may have reached hundreds of thousands or even millions."

Just like the syrup that had problems this time, good medicine has become a "toxic". If they are allowed to circulate in the market, it is destined to harm people...

If they are allowed to circulate in the market, it is destined to harm people...