Acetaminophen can interact with other drugs. An interaction is when a substance changes the way a drug works. This can be harmful or prevent the drug from working well. Examples of drugs that can cause dangerous interactions when used with acetaminophen include:. NSAIDs help decrease inflammation, pain, and fever. This substance promotes inflammation and fever by causing the release of various chemical signals in your body.
You take ibuprofen by mouth. Common brand-name products that contain ibuprofen include Advil and Motrin. Shop for ibuprofen on Amazon. You take any of these forms by mouth. Aspirin also comes as a rectal suppository. Common brand-name products that contain aspirin include Bayer Aspirin and Ecotrin. Purchase aspirin here. Find naproxen online. To help prevent stomach upset, take ibuprofen or naproxen with food or milk. You can take aspirin with food or a full glass of water. NSAIDs can also have more serious side effects.
The more serious side effects of ibuprofen or naproxen can include:. If you have a history of heart disease, you have increased risk of heart attack or stroke when taking ibuprofen or naproxen.
The risk is still higher if you take more of these medications than directed or if you take them for a long time. If this applies to you, you have an increased risk of ulcers or bleeding when taking ibuprofen or naproxen. The risk is still higher if you:.
Stop taking the drug and call your doctor if you have any of these symptoms. Some children consistently seem to respond better to one medication than the other. Each individual illness may also respond better to a particular medication.
If you get a feeling that one medication is working better than the other, use that medication. Many medical providers recommend alternating acetaminophen and ibuprofen for better fever control.
Studies suggest there may be a slight improvement in fever control when using both medications; however, there is also an increased chance the child will accidentally be given an overdose of one or both medicines, especially if more than one person is giving the child medication. If you choose to alternate acetaminophen and ibuprofen, alternate them every 4 hours.
For example, give acetaminophen at noon, ibuprofen at 4pm, acetaminophen at 8pm, and so on. If more than one person will be giving medications, keeping a written schedule may help reduce dosing errors. There is absolutely no evidence that giving acetaminophen and ibuprofen at the same time helps to control the fever.
This practice can also lead to significant medication overdoses thus is not safe. Oral dosing recommendations on the packages of medications are most often given in weight or age ranges. This can lead to under-dosing or slight over-dosing.
We recommend ibuprofen to be given at 10mg per kilogram of weight about 10mg for every 2 pounds every hours or acetaminophen at 15mg per kilogram of weight every hours. Acetaminophen can also be given as a rectal suppository, but they are available in a limited selection of doses. Suppositories should not be split to modify the dose because the medication may not be suspended equally throughout the suppository, so one portion may have more medication than another.
If they have a temperature of That is when we really start getting worried about infections in babies that are dangerous. What about fevers over ? Can they cause brain damage? Fevers with infections don't cause brain damage.
Only body temperatures over can cause brain damage. The body's thermometer goes high, but extreme environmental temperatures, such as if a child is in a closed car in hot weather, that's when you start worrying about the fever going high and causing brain damage.
The next concern is that, "What if my child has a fever? They can have a febrile seizure, which is a seizure that's triggered a fever. Do all fevers need to be treated with fever medicine? Well, only if they cause discomfort. Look to see how your child is acting. If a fever is or , you're going to notice that your child's not feeling so great. They're tired.
They're cranky. But I've seen kids with a fever of running around in my office. So go by what your child looks like and how they're acting rather by the number on the thermometer. Won't the fever keep going higher? The brain has an internal thermostat, and fevers from infection top out at about and They usually don't go higher than that. Even if you treat it with it with Tylenol, fevers usually only come down two or three degrees, and it can take about two or three hours for the fever to come down.
Not necessarily. Fevers that don't respond to fever medicine can be caused by viruses or bacteria, and, again, it doesn't matter if the medicine works or not because you want to make sure you look at your child's other symptoms. You can have a child with a severe virus. Bad colds. Fever treatment: Quick guide to treating a fever. Products and services. Thank you for Subscribing Our Housecall e-newsletter will keep you up-to-date on the latest health information.
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