A recent report has warned that parents who dose their kids with a mixture of ibuprofen and paracetamol in order to fight a mild fever could risk the health of their kids or prolong the sickness. According to report parents always remain in the clutch of fever phobia, which make them to use both medicines in order to bring down even mild fevers.
More than half of the concerned parents give their kids wrong medication that can even escort to overdoses. Paracetamol and ibuprofen are collectively known as antipyretics, can be bought readily over the counter in liquid solution or in pill form like Calpol and Nurofen for kids.
Distant from being awful sign, a fever simply meant that body of the child is combating sickness. In spite of many physicians frequently prescribe alternate doses of ibuprofen and pracetamol, called a combination remedy could do more harm than good, reported the study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics.
According to report, by helping parents realize that temperature in and of is not known to imperil a generally healthy child. It should be accentuated that fever is not a sickness but in fact a psychological mechanism that has beneficial effects in combating infection. But regrettably more than half of all parents administer incorrect doses.
According to the British National Formulary, which consults GPs before prescribing medicine, paracetamol should be administered no more than four times in twenty-four hours and ibuprofen a day. Paracetamol has been associated with asthma while ibuprofen in rare cases escort to stomach ulcer and even kidney problems, explained the report headed by Dr Janice Sullivan and Dr Henry Farrar.