Side effects of sedatives on children

The pharmacology of sedatives is mainly to calm people by paralyzing the brain nerves. For young children, the drug resistance is not that strong. If used for a long time, it will cause intellectual disabilities, depression, and seriously affect brain development. It should be used as little as possible!

Guidance: Although tranquilizers have a bad effect on children, they still need to be injected to cooperate with the examination in special circumstances. If it is only once, it will not have any impact. Don't worry, the transient effects will soon disappear as the drug is excreted, and the side effects will naturally disappear.

Sedatives are drugs that can reduce the activity of certain organs or tissues and inhibit the central nervous system to produce a sedative effect. Large doses can cause sleep and general anesthesia. It helps relieve depression and anxiety in people. They are used to treat stress and do not affect normal brain activity. However, while playing a therapeutic role, sedatives also exhibit various adverse reactions, especially continuous use, which can also cause addiction.

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Acute poisoning is mostly caused by accidental ingestion or suicide, but may also be caused by excessive intravenous doses or rapid injections. The main symptoms of the poisoned person are excitement and delirium, followed by drowsiness, shallow and rapid breathing, cyanosis of the skin, loss of pain sensation, dilated pupils, and coma. Death in the early stage is mostly caused by paralysis of the respiratory center, and in the late stage is mostly caused by respiratory failure, cerebral edema or combined lung infection.

Chronic poisoning is manifested by drowsiness, difficulty in thinking and associating thoughts, memory loss, poor judgment, emotional instability, and agitation and irritability. When the symptoms are severe, there will be slurred speech, nystagmus, slow gait, and they are often accompanied by mental symptoms such as visual hallucinations, delusions, panic, and mania.

The representative drug of benzodiazepines - Valium, has highly selective antianxiety effects, good therapeutic effects, a wide safety range, long-lasting effects, relatively less dependence, mild withdrawal symptoms, and a strong anticonvulsant effect. Medical applications are widespread. However, after long-term use and discontinuation of the medication, mental symptoms may occur: anxiety, fear, uneasiness, insomnia, headache, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, limb tremors, muscle cramps, etc. Intravenous administration of these drugs may cause hypotension and respiratory depression.