OBJECTIVE: To analyze the characteristics and rules of pediatric adverse drug reaction (ADR) in our hospital, and provide reference for clinical safe drug use. METHODS: Retrospective study was adopted to statistically analyze the ADR reports in our hospital from Mar. 2012 to Jun. 2016. RESULTS: In the 176 ADR reports, 102 were male (57.95%) and 74 were female (42.05%); children younger than 6 years old had the highest incidence of ADR (81.26%); intravenous administration induced 153 cases (86.93%), the top one was antibiotics, which involving 20 antibiotics, totally 106 cases (60.23%); skin and its appendages damage were the main manifestations, totally 127 cases (50.60%). CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric ADR monitoring should be strengthened, dinical rational drug use should be promoted by cooperation in many ways to reduce and prevent the inciderle of pediatric ADR.