“My daughter came home from school, and there was a light blue object wrapped in gauze on her bare forehead. When I asked her what it was, she said it was a very popular ‘wake-up sticker’ recently, which was not only cool but also awake and doze.” A parent reported that many primary school students now play a “three no products” called “cool and refreshing stickers” without a factory name and address.
The author saw in a stationery shop at the gate of a primary school that this kind of “cool sticker” with a price of 1 yuan per piece has various packaging, all of which are children’s favorite pictures such as pleasant goat, happy kuyu and Saier. The owner of this Chenguang stationery store said that many primary school students do buy “cool stickers”. Recently, almost all the 400 odd pieces he bought have been sold out, and more than 100 pieces can be sold every day.
The author saw that the efficacy of the “cool sticker” was indicated on the outer package: refreshing, relieving fatigue, improving attention, and lasting for 8 hours. The ingredients are hydrophilic polymer gel, borneol, peppermint, etc., which are suitable for refreshing, brain overuse, learning burnout, etc. The manufacturer and address of the product are not indicated on the whole package.
According to the staff of the food and drug supervision and administration department, this “cool sticker” has no “food”, “medicine” and other document numbers, nor does it have manufacturer’s information, which belongs to the “three noes” product.
In order to prove its authenticity, the author also bought a “sobering paste” and put it on his forehead. After one minute, there was a clear cool feeling around the plaster. After half an hour, the cool feeling gradually weakened, and it did not have the effect of “refreshing”.
Liu shaogui, director of the pharmacy department of the First Affiliated Hospital of traditional Chinese medicine in Hunan Province, explained that the principle of the “cool paste” pasted by students is the same as that of the “antipyretic paste” pasted by children. It mainly uses mint and borneol to achieve physical cooling.
For children’s antipyretic stickers produced by regular manufacturers, director Liu suggested that parents should not rely too much. Physical cooling can only play a temporary and local role. Children still need medical treatment for fever. For this “three noes” cool and refreshing paste, students should not paste it indiscriminately. If the weather is hot or the body is not in good time, it is best to choose cool oil to refresh themselves, or drink cool drinks to relieve heat.
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