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Suggest Treatment For Throat Infection And Fever In A Child
Question: My 8 year old son recovered from a bad throat infection and high fever last month and was given Bevon syrup along with iron syrup to make up for weightloss and deficiency. Is it safe to continue bevon syrup for longer duration like a year or so in growing children?
Brief Answer:
Giving Bevon is pointless
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on HealthcareMagic.
I have gone carefully through your query and understand your concerns. Bevon is a multivitamin preparation. Let me tell you that vitamins are required by our body in minuscule amounts and are not stored. Whatever we need is usually available from an average daily diet. So, unless you have a specific deficiency it is simply useless to take multivitamin supplements and all of it would simply be flushed out with urine. The question of safety does not arise because the body will simply not absorb this excess amount of vitamins. Such supplementation is therefore meaningless even in growing children.
I would insist you to stop taking it. However, you are free to continue with it if you want. All multivitamins are equally useless provided that you are not exhibiting symptoms of a particular deficiency. In case you ever get a particular deficiency, most multivitamins would not have sufficient quantity of that particular vitamin and it would be better to take supplements of that specific component rather than any multivitamin. If ever given in light of a specific deficiency, giving for 3-5 days suffices.
If your child has anemia you can continue to give iron. However, iron syrups usually have the adverse effect of constipation associated.
Let me know if I could help further.
Regards
Giving Bevon is pointless
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on HealthcareMagic.
I have gone carefully through your query and understand your concerns. Bevon is a multivitamin preparation. Let me tell you that vitamins are required by our body in minuscule amounts and are not stored. Whatever we need is usually available from an average daily diet. So, unless you have a specific deficiency it is simply useless to take multivitamin supplements and all of it would simply be flushed out with urine. The question of safety does not arise because the body will simply not absorb this excess amount of vitamins. Such supplementation is therefore meaningless even in growing children.
I would insist you to stop taking it. However, you are free to continue with it if you want. All multivitamins are equally useless provided that you are not exhibiting symptoms of a particular deficiency. In case you ever get a particular deficiency, most multivitamins would not have sufficient quantity of that particular vitamin and it would be better to take supplements of that specific component rather than any multivitamin. If ever given in light of a specific deficiency, giving for 3-5 days suffices.
If your child has anemia you can continue to give iron. However, iron syrups usually have the adverse effect of constipation associated.
Let me know if I could help further.
Regards
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