On the afternoon of April 14, in the book’s launch Your wise doctor – I love you – Safe and effective handling of common diseases in children, Author Minh Nguyen had an exchange session with readers to share necessary skills to protect children against some common diseases in the book street on December 19, Hanoi.

Your wise doctor is a book written by a female doctor specializing in traditional medicine, both professionally in child health care, and sharing the experience of a mother with other parents.

During the exchange, author Minh Nguyen shared that she did not encounter too many difficulties in the process of implementing the book. While other book projects force her to spend a lot of time and thoughts Your wise doctor, Minh Nguyen has many advantages, from outlining the outline of the book to the implementation of small ideas of each chapter.

In retrospect, the work on this book project was fast, in about two months from its inception. During that time, she always put this work as her top priority, dedicating 1-2 hours every day to maximum focus on spirit and energy for the book.

Minh Nguyen, author of the book The Intelligent Doctor of Children and Mrs. Khuc Thi Hoa Phuong, Director and Editor-in-Chief of Vietnam Women’s Publishing House. Photo: Hua Moc.

In addition, the author also tries to express the book’s language in a way that is easiest to understand, making medical knowledge close and accessible to readers of many different ages.

Also during the exchange, author Minh Nguyen said that it is important in treating young children that doctors need to learn to listen to patients’ emotions, give them more options when treating patients. necessarily too dependent on antibiotics.

If we know how to combine oriental medicine with western medicine in a harmonious way for children to reduce the dose of antibiotics and not depend on antibiotics anymore, the children will have better resistance to them.

Grandmother Khuc Thi Hoa Phuong – The Director and Editor-in-Chief of Vietnam Women’s Publishing House thinks this is a good and useful book, helping parents easily access to care for their children’s health.

She said that through the book, the author encourages parents to use drugs properly and reasonably; promoting the use of a huge resource base of traditional medicine. At the same time, the work is also a warning to the abuse of antibiotics.

The wise doctor for children is a guidebook to handle a complete diet of common diseases in young children. Photo: Vietnamese Women Publishing House.

The book is divided into 11 chapters, each of which asks a question for the doctor and parents to find answers together, such as: “Should I have an antibiotic if I have a fever?”, “My child must use antibiotics?” Only eat when you turn on the TV !! “,” Obese children need a hard diet? “…

In the book, in addition to giving the traditional medicine doctor’s opinion on the use of antibiotics and other western medicine, the author also shares his parenting experience to limit the admission. hospital and medicine, leaving an open path for parents to choose

The author Minh Nguyen graduated as a doctor and received a doctorate in Traditional Medicine from Hanoi Medical University. She has received many prestigious training certificates in the country and in the world such as: Certificate of scientific research at Cho Ray Hospital; Certificate of EKG reading from the Hanoi Heart Institute and Harvard Medical School’s (USA) continuous training certificate in the field of “Arthritis due to crystal deposition: Gout and calcium crystalline deposition disease” pyrophosphate ”.

She is also a regular speaker at the Asia Pacific Military Medical Conference, the Military Medical Leadership Conference of Southeast Asian countries with topics on software wound treatment, dengue fever epidemic …

Hospitalized for emergency hospitalization for online use of drugs, quitting doctors

Ms. NVN (65 years old, Thai Binh), has had diabetes for many years and is on stable medication. Recently, listening to an advertisement online for a drug with effervescent promises to cure this disease completely without side effects. Mrs. N. decided to cancel the prescription and buy this drug to use. Taking the drug for about 2 weeks, blood sugar and blood pressure are high, mucosal swelling, tired body, slow working. When the edema worsened, her skin was pale, had difficulty breathing … her family members took her to the emergency hospital.

Do not because the advertisement contains an effervescent medicine for emergency diabetes treatment that is life-threatening.

Here, when conducting the emergency, the patient recorded the following indicators: Blood sugar 17.6mmol / L and blood pressure 190 / 110mmhg. Ultrasound results showed bilateral pleural effusion. When he was taken to the emergency room, the patient was in a very serious, life-threatening condition. Doctors had to conduct emergencies and active treatment to help patients get out of a critical crisis.

Instruct diabetic patients on how to care for and monitor their disease at the Central Endocrine Hospital.

Patient N. was not the first person to be admitted to the emergency room due to voluntary discontinuation of medication prescribed by the doctor. Dr. Pham Thuy Huong – Deputy Director of Central Endocrinology Hospital, said that the hospital had to emergency many cases of abandoning the doctor’s prescription and switched to taking decoctions, pills, effervescent pills or functional foods. … in the hope of a complete cure. In particular, there was a 64-year-old male disease, diagnosed with 3-year diabetes, 2-year hypertension with complications of stage 2 chronic kidney disease. Due to worries about side effects of western medicine and trust in advertising It is possible to completely cure the disease without using drugs, so this patient has voluntarily quit completely the drug prescribed by the doctor’s prescription and taking supplements. After about 20 days, the patient began to experience swelling of the body, difficulty breathing, dizziness, chest pain. This patient, when admitted to the hospital, was in a state of respiratory failure with multilayer effusion, pericardium, pleura, peritoneum …

Most of these patients, upon arrival at the hospital, were in a state of complications due to non-compliance, not keeping a stable blood sugar level for a while … Many patients who were admitted to the emergency room were in very serious condition. masonry, dangerous to life. The process of resuscitation and treatment for these cases is very difficult. Dr. Huong said.

Although this situation takes place for a long time and has a lot of warnings, many patients still have it. Because many people still believe that “taking traditional medicine, natural herbs is healthy, not as toxic as western medicine”. Moreover, there is still the belief of the patient when being told by others that “this drug I drink very well, I am cured”, so I bought it for trial …

Dr. Huong said: The “unlucky” each other to use such drugs is very dangerous. Because even with the same disease, the use of drugs for each patient, each age, each sex … is not the same. Not to mention, although the symptoms are the same, but the disease may be different, or the disease is at a different stage, accompanied by another pathology … the use of drugs must be completely different.

To stabilize the disease, to comply with the drug

For diabetic patients who have been diagnosed and treated but who voluntarily quit smoking, it is often very severe when they go to the emergency room, such as kidney failure, liver failure, cardiovascular complications, leading to a high risk of death. During the treatment process, the permanent team must have quick access to support liver, kidney function, electrolyte replacement, especially the patient must undergo dialysis to recover because of the increased risk of complications that are life-threatening. .

Dr. Pham Thuy Huong said: Currently, diabetes has no cure, whether it is western medicine or traditional medicine. The use of antidiabetic drugs is to use drugs to control blood glucose throughout the life, in order to stabilize blood glucose levels within safe limits, limit or slow the progression of dangerous complications caused by diabetes.

However, due to having to take medications and monitor blood sugar every day, many patients are anxious and want to believe in other measures that can help them heal. Accompanying that is the development of advertising on social networking sites, with “commitments”, promising that the use of “heirloom” medicines will help patients to cure completely, making many people believe. and follow.

Dr. Often advised: Whether it is western medicine, traditional medicine or traditional medicine, there are certain side effects. To protect their own health, patients need to be awake and talk to the treating doctor for appropriate advice and advice, do not use products of unknown origin, have not been tested. , has no scientific basis, is not licensed by the Ministry of Health.

In addition to adhering to the treatment regimen of a specialist, diabetic patients need to be examined periodically according to an appointment to get necessary tests to monitor the progress of the disease. When you see unusual signs, you should quickly go to the medical facility for inspection. Before taking any additional drugs to treat another medical condition, it is important to inform your doctor about the medications you are taking in diabetes to avoid adverse drug interactions.