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Pediatricians pay special attention to taking medicine when children have high fever – Life Health

Friday, April 15, 2022 16:00 PM (GMT+7)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung, Former Head of Pediatrics Department, Bach Mai Hospital, noted that when children have fever, only paracetamol should be used to reduce fever, not interspersed with other drugs.

Currently, many mothers of children with COVID-19 have a high fever of over 39 degrees, but taking antipyretics does not bring them down but still remains at 38 degrees and are anxious to ask the doctor if they should take a combination of antipyretics to keep time apart. take paracetamol or not.

Regarding these cases, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung, Former Head of Pediatrics Department, Bach Mai Hospital, said that when children have fever, only paracetamol can be used to reduce fever, not mixed with other drugs.

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“Why do we say take only paracetamol and do not alternate. We talked a lot. When the child has respiratory symptoms, we test positive SARS-CoV-2 then we immediately think of COVID-19. But respiratory diseases have many causes, currently the world has found 28 causes and COVID-19 is just one of them. Recently in Ho Chi Minh City, there was a case of a child who was positive for SARS-CoV-2 but also tested positive for dengue fever, this is a very dangerous case when positive for 2 diseases at the same time. Meanwhile, between COVID-19 and dengue fever, the treatment is completely different. If COVID-19 we have to focus on treating the lungs and do not receive fluids, while with dengue fever, we have to focus on giving a lot of fluids.

Currently, the whole country has also started the dengue epidemic season, but dengue fever is contraindicated to use Ibuprofen because this drug has anticoagulant effect, making bleeding caused by dengue fever unstoppable, especially is gastrointestinal bleeding. Therefore, if we alternately use two types of antipyretic drugs paracetamol and Ibuprofen, dengue fever can be much worse, “said Associate Professor Dung.

Assoc. Dung especially noted, if children only take paracetamol and not alternately, and never think about using Ibuprofen in this period again.

In addition, it is necessary to measure the temperature in the armpit to ensure accuracy. In addition, it takes 4-6 hours to take paracetamol once.

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