| The safety of children's medication has always been a major event affecting the hearts of millions of parents. In addition to the current small number of children's drugs on the market, lack of specifications, seemingly unimportant drug packaging is also an important cause of hidden dangers in children.
As early as 1970, the United States promulgated the "Poison Prevention Packaging Method (PPPA)", in addition to some drugs, pesticides, daily chemicals and other potentially harmful household products must also have special child safety packaging. Different from China, most hospitals in the United States do not have pharmacies. Patients need to take prescriptions to pharmacies or supermarkets to take medicines. Pharmacists will ask the medics to choose medicines with children's safety packaging. If you choose ordinary packaging, you must sign legal documents. Ensure that there are no children under the age of 5 in the family, so as not to cause children to take drugs.
In China's pharmaceutical market, almost 95% of pharmaceutical packaging does not have the function of child protection. The safety tips are generally simply reflected in the drug label, and even imported drugs are often omitted from the Chinese market, in order to save costs and omit the safety packaging. According to the results of the 2014 Global Child Safety Organization's “Children's Safety Drug Survey”, 99% of young children can open regular vials in two seconds.
Strengthening the safe packaging of children's medicines is inevitable. The safe packaging of children's medicines generally refers to oral medications for children and adults (such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular drugs, psychotropic drugs, etc.), and the use of packaging that children can not easily open and tear, to prevent children from mistaking, But adults can open without difficulty. Children's safety packaging mainly consists of different bottle caps. The inner and outer double-layer structure of the cap is connected by a card slot. If the lid is opened, the outer cap needs to be pressed down and the inner cap is rotated. Open the bottle, because this opening method involves two directions of force, because the child's poor coordination ability can not directly open the bottle, can effectively prevent children from eating drugs. |
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