'Ibuprofen' for children helps with pain and fever

In adults, this drug has become one of the main analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs. This medicine reduces pain, relieves inflammation. Being opened more than four decades ago, Ibuprofen for children also showed a number of advantages of its application in pediatrics.

Today, "Ibuprofen" baby is considered a drug that is well tolerated, has an early and lasting effect. In pediatrics, the drug is used as a remedy for fever and pain syndrome. Ibuprofen for children can be considered as a very safe, effective antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic.

When asked about the effectiveness of this drug for children compared to "Paracetamol", the famous children's doctor Dr. Komarovsky EO. Replied that the testimony to their application is the same. Both "Paracetamol" and "Ibuprofen" for children are recommended for use with similar indications. The only difference is that some children are better suited to a particular medicine. In this case, both drugs are good and effective in their own way.

This article examines "Ibuprofen" for children, how effective it is, for which it is applied. It is noted that it is well tolerated by children when fever, pain syndrome is stopped. The medicine is widely used for the treatment of such childhood pathologies:

• Acute otitis media.
• Angina, pharyngitis.
• Post-vaccinal hyperthermia.
• Postoperative pain.
• Migraine.
• Fever.

"Ibuprofen" for children is applied inside. High efficiency of the drug is noted in the decrease in temperature in children. Its action can be observed already during the first fifteen minutes, which lasts up to eight hours. The medicine in an unchanged form is excreted from the body by the kidneys.

Other indications for the use of the drug "Ibuprofen" for children, the instruction calls the following:

• Rheumatoid arthritis.
• Osteoarthritis.
• Radiculitis.
• Bursitis.
• Toothache, headache.
• ENT - pathology.

The drug is used as follows: For children who have reached the age of twelve and older, the daily dose is 150 to 300 mg divided into three doses. The maximum dose of a medicine is 1 g.

In the form of a suspension, "Ibuprofen" for children is used as follows:

• Age from six months to one year provides for obligatory consultation of the pediatrician. On average, 50 mg of the drug are administered, divided into three divided doses per day.
• Children between the ages of one year and up to three years old take the medicine also, but the total dose is 100 mg
• From four to six years - to 150 mg: 3r.
• Seven - nine years - 200mg: 3r.
• Ten - twelve years - 300mg: 3r.

If a febrile syndrome occurs due to immunization, 50 mg is once prescribed and, if necessary, repeated intake at the same dose after six hours. With regard to the safety of the drug "Ibuprofen" for children and its tolerability, then in comparison with "Paracetamol", they are equal.

What side effects were recorded with the use of the drug "Ibuprofen" for children?

There were allergic reactions, such as: visual disturbances, runny nose, rash.

From the digestive tract: constipation or diarrhea, flatulence. There were cases of excitement, insomnia.

Contraindications in the use of "Ibuprofen" for children is the presence of peptic ulcer, gastritis, colitis. Also not assigned for violations of hematopoiesis. With pathologies of the heart, blood vessels, as well as the liver and kidneys, the drug is administered with caution. Up to six years of age, children are prescribed only by a doctor. Self-medication in this case is not allowed.

Overdose is accompanied by pain in the abdomen, there is nausea, vomiting, noise in the ears, inhibition. In this case, help is to wash the stomach, and then take take activated charcoal.

But in general, the drug is well tolerated, and the above side effects were identified in rare cases. Accordingly, "Ibuprofen" for children is indispensable in the treatment of fever, pain syndrome, inflammatory processes.