(Two Sessions Express) Li Qiu, deputy to the National People's Congress: It is recommended to curb the abuse of antibiotics in children and ensure drug safety
China News Service, Beijing, March 6 (Reporter Zhang Yan) "The preventive use of antibiotics is a typical abuse of antibiotics, especially in children. The risk of asthma increases and other hazards." Li Qiu, deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Chongqing Medical University, suggested curbing the abuse of antibiotics in children, preventing the emergence of superbugs, and ensuring the safety of children's medication.
Li Qiu said that the current research and development of new drugs for children's antibiotics in clinical trials is insufficient.
Among the existing drug varieties in my country, the proportion of special drugs for children is extremely small, especially children's antibiotic drugs, which have the problems of less varieties, less dosage forms, less specifications and relatively insufficient research and development.
"Parents have misunderstandings about antibiotics. Children's body organs are not yet mature, the acidity of the stomach is relatively low, the gastric emptying speed is slow, and the drug stays in the body for a relatively long time, so oral administration is more complete and more easily absorbed. Children accept it." Li Qiu said that parents are the first and most important barrier to protect children, but it is difficult for most parents to accurately judge antibiotics by themselves, and there are misunderstandings.
Some parents replace children's medicines by reducing the dosage of adult medicines, which not only aggravates the adverse reactions of medicines, affects children's health, but also brings difficulties to medical staff when taking medicines.
Although the country has promulgated many regulations to curb the abuse of antibiotics, including the proportion and intensity of antibiotic use, there are still serious abuses, mainly because the cost and cost of illegal use of antibiotics are still small.
Medical institutions have achieved results in the rational use of antibiotics, and retail pharmacies with large coverage are still in the hardest hit areas.
Although antibiotics are listed as prescription drugs, due to incomplete supervision and insufficient supervision, antibiotics can still be purchased in some pharmacies without a prescription.
In response to the above problems, Li Qiu suggested to increase support to create more favorable conditions for the development of new drugs for clinical trials of children's antibiotic drugs.
Encourage enterprises to invest in the research and development of children's antibiotic drug clinical trials, encourage medical institutions to actively carry out children's antibiotic drug clinical trials, and provide strong policy support.
For example, to provide certain support to the research medical staff participating in the research and development in legal protection, professional title evaluation, and scientific research awards; to establish a green fast-track for enterprises in the application and evaluation of clinical trials, and to speed up the progress of antibiotic research and development.
Increase publicity efforts, and enhance the popularization of antibiotic knowledge among parents in various ways.
It is recommended to publicize and educate the public on how to regulate and rationally use antibiotics through television, radio, newspapers, websites and other media channels.
For women of childbearing age, we will expand the publicity of antibiotics through various forms such as community education, hospital platforms, and the influence of public figures.
Strengthen supervision and crack down on illegal sales and use of antibiotics.
Promulgate laws and regulations to control the research and development, production, circulation, and use of antibiotics, ensure the safe and rational use of antibiotics in children, and impose penalties for violations of regulations.
Practitioners should strictly control the dose of antibiotics prescribed for children according to the condition of the child.
The use of antibiotics is closely monitored from the sales link, and the information system is used to strengthen the management of pharmacies. When pharmacies sell antibiotics, they must upload prescriptions through the information system. The health and health department, market supervision department, medical insurance department and other regulatory departments combine the sales of retail pharmacies. Regularly Or irregularly conduct random inspections in the background, and if problems are found, they will be severely punished, until the pharmacy qualification is cancelled.
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