Service of a newborn. How to choose child fever
There is absolutely safe antipyretic for babies - all of them are a threat and can cause severe complications. But the risk of such manifestations however a effect of the adoption of varied fever varies.
Safest of all infants is paracetamol. A single dose of acetaminophen may reduce the temperature of the newborn by 1-1.5 degrees for 2-4 hours. But at high temperatures (over 40), this reduction is very short.
Note that Paracetamol is contraindicated in infants with hypersensitivity to it, in cultivating genetically determined deficiency of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. A child with such a defect of the enzyme production may cause hemolysis.
Paracetamol is produced in the shape of syrup, rectal suppositories, effervescent pills and powders under variant names - Efferalgan, Kalpol, Panadol, Tylenol and others.
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