Using a razor blade to treat children is a completely unscientific method, endangering the child's life and wasting precious time to save the child's life.

On June 27, the National Children's Hospital informed that doctors from the Internal Medicine Intensive Care Department (National Children's Hospital) had just treated a 10-year-old male patient with sepsis, multiple organ failure, and drug poisoning due to his family arbitrarily giving him herbal medicine of unknown origin and taking him to traditional medicine by cutting his body with a razor blade to remove toxic blood from his body. Despite the doctors' efforts to save him, the child died.

Treating pediatric patients at the National Children's Hospital. PHOTO: TRUONG GIANG

Doctors recommend that before using any medicine or treatment for children, parents need to consult a doctor. Parents should not be too impatient to listen to advice and advertisements about medicines of unknown origin, unscientific treatment methods that cause children to suffer from many unpredictable complications, even death. When detecting abnormal signs in children, the most important thing parents should do is quickly take their children to a specialized medical facility for timely examination and treatment.

VY HIEU