What happens if you take too much antipyretic medicine

If the number displayed when measuring body temperature is higher than 37 degrees or 38 degrees, it means that the body has a fever. The best treatment is to take antipyretics in time. However, taking too much antipyretics will bring side effects to the body, causing vomiting and nausea, and in severe cases, it will cause fainting. Therefore, before taking antipyretics, you must follow the medical instructions and make sure to choose the antipyretics that suit you, otherwise it will cause adverse reactions.

1. It is not recommended to take antipyretics if the body temperature is slightly high. When the body temperature reaches above 38.5℃, the patient will feel uncomfortable, and if the patient is a child, convulsions may occur easily. However, antipyretics are best used after the cause is identified. There is no benefit in hastily using antipyretics when the cause is unknown.

2. Patients with fever often have poor appetite, cannot eat, and drink little water. If they take antipyretic drugs too aggressively, it can easily lead to collapse, injury to the gastric mucosa, or even gastric bleeding.

3. Antipyretic drugs have certain side effects, which can cause harm to the body and in severe cases can even lead to nephritis.

The main reason why patients with fever should not use antipyretics easily is that diseases have their own development laws and their own so-called "fever types". When the disease has not been clearly diagnosed, antipyretics are used hastily, causing the body temperature to drop, masking the typical symptoms of the disease and easily delaying the diagnosis. For example, the fever type of typhoid fever is retained fever, that is, persistent fever, but after using antipyretics, the body temperature drops, and it is no longer clear from the fever type that it is a retained fever type, which can easily delay the diagnosis. In addition, keep in mind that patients with fever who use antipyretics can easily sweat profusely or even collapse.

Children's colds often cause fever, which is particularly worrying for parents, so they give their children a lot of antipyretics. In fact, medical experts do not advocate lowering a child's temperature immediately after they have a fever. Because fever is also a manifestation of the child's own resistance to disease, reducing the temperature as soon as the fever occurs is not good for the child's immune function. Any temperature below 38℃ is considered a low fever, so parents don’t need to worry too much. Experts suggest that if a child's temperature is above 38.5℃, he or she can take some antipyretics. However, antipyretics should be taken under the guidance of a doctor. It is more desirable to use physical cooling methods, such as warm water baths, cold compresses, etc.

It is very important to pay attention to protecting children's neck. In the eyes of many people, a cold is just a minor illness, but if it develops, a minor illness may become a big problem, especially for children who are still in the developmental stage. A cold may cause a complication called atlantoaxial inflammation, which may cause the child's neck to lose flexibility.