Patient's question:
It has been detected that the child has G6PD deficiency. Could you please list the medications and foods that should be avoided for children with G6PD deficiency? Can you express this in writing?Doctor's answer:
Common drugs include: antipyretic and analgesics, sedatives, and anticonvulsants; anti-inflammatory and analgesics, etc.; antibiotics; antibacterial, etc. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency is a disease caused by a lack of Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. It is generally characterized by sudden acute intravascular hemolysis after eating fresh fava beans. In fact, this condition is relatively rare in daily life, and the affected population is mostly children under the age of 3. Only a small number of middle-aged and elderly patients suffer from this condition. Moreover, when this condition is severe, it may lead to coma, shock, or systemic failure.