4 things to keep in mind when taking sugar pills

The first issue that expectant mothers have to face soon after giving birth is vaccination. Most vaccines are administered by injection, but sugar pills are a special case. There are many things to pay attention to when vaccinating your baby, and although the process of oral sugar pills is relatively simple, there are still many precautions that expectant mothers need to be careful about.

1. Strictly refrigerate

The sugar pill vaccine must be strictly refrigerated before taking it. The refrigerated environment is minus 20 degrees Celsius, and the validity period is 2 years; if stored at 2-10 degrees Celsius, the validity period is 5 months; if stored at 20-33 degrees, the validity period is 10 days; if stored at 30-32 degrees, it can only be stored for 2 days. Therefore, the vaccine must be taken promptly after being taken out of the refrigeration equipment. Each vaccination site should have at least one refrigeration bag to ensure the refrigeration requirements of the vaccine.

2. Pay attention to hygiene

When your baby is eating sugar pills, you must not take the sugar pills directly with your hands. You must use a sterilized spoon or sterilized tissue to feed him. Please pay attention to this.

3. Pay attention to safety

When a baby takes sugar pills, he should first crush the pills with a spoon or chopsticks, or dissolve the pills in warm water below 37 degrees with a spoon before taking them, to prevent the sugar pills from being accidentally inhaled into the trachea and causing suffocation. Older children can take sugar pills like ordinary sugar pills, put them in their mouths, chew them into pieces, and swallow them after they dissolve. After eating, they can drink some cold boiled water or sugar water to ensure that all the vaccines enter the gastrointestinal tract.

4. Do not take it hot

Be careful not to take it with hot water or mix it with other beverages to avoid killing the vaccine virus. You can eat hot food half an hour after taking the sugar pill. Breastfeeding should be suspended half an hour before and after the vaccine, because breast milk contains antibodies that will affect the immune effect. Parents should pay special attention to the precautions when babies eat sugar pills, especially that they should not be taken hot. Because sugar pills are live viruses, if they are taken with hot water, the viruses in the vaccine will be inactivated and lose their effect.