# specification

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**Published on:** 2023-02-28
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## Content

Like others, I did a lot of reading comprehension when I was learning English, and one article impressed me the most. The article tells the story of the author's father. Although he was skillful in mind and hands, he was not promoted because he could not read. He also had many inconveniences in life, such as mistook canned potatoes for canned pears. Most importantly, my father insisted on living alone. He had a heart attack because he could not read the instructions. He did not know that he should hold down the cap of the medicine bottle and then twist it off. From then on, I paid special attention to the instructions and read them again and again for fear of missing anything. In order to avoid legal risk, the package contains all the relevant information, including the molecular formula and toxicology, but there are still some missing items. Some time ago, I went to the hospital to have my teeth cleaned. The doctor rinsed and said, "Do you have high blood pressure?" As I rinsed my mouth, I said yes, but I didn't expect to see high blood pressure just by looking at my teeth. The doctor said, "Your gums are very swollen, which is what happens when you take dipine blood pressure medication." I thought I read the instructions carefully. I don't remember anything like that. Went home and looked at the box again "rare side effects and rare side effects", indeed no. Ask the students who are doctors, they say that dipine drugs all contain calcium antagonists, which can relax the smooth muscle of blood vessels, and long-term use may cause gum hyperplasia. There are a lot of papers on this, but they don't know why it is not mentioned in the instructions. Another time, I was in a hospital bed. In the middle of the night, an old lady came into the ward. The old lady hum all night, every ten minutes said to drink water to go to the toilet. Family really arranged, she said no need, make a house of people miserable. The next day, she is still in fine spirits, continue to toss, but more than a request, want to drink cold infusion, family members always interrupt perfunctory. We secretly asked the doctor what was wrong, the doctor said the old lady a chronic disease, heard that drinking cold infusion can relieve the pain, not difficult to drink and not expensive, a drink drink more than ten years, addicted. In fact, it's the caffeine in the drug that's relieving the pain, and her symptoms are classic withdrawal symptoms. I took several packages of cold medicine with me when I stayed in bed. The instructions only said, "If the symptoms do not relieve for 3 to 7 days, please consult a doctor or pharmacist", but there was no saying, "long-term use should not be taken" and "long-term use will cause harm to the body". Most people read drug instructions carefully because of their health, but not so much for other things. I encountered problems several times when heating the convenience food. Some noodles required cold water, but I put them into the pot when the water was boiling. Some steamed buns called for drawer cloths, and I put plates that turned out to be all sticky. There was once a news about a young man in Chongqing who ate a self-heated hot pot without reading the instructions. He ate it together with the food ingredients and fever bag, which eventually led to the three people in the dormitory being sent to the hospital.

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