It should be obvious but it is better to say it again: the doses of medicines for adults are not the same when those drugs are administered to children. If children have a few lines of fever is not cause for alarm, because the body reacts with the increase in temperature to fight infection. Unfortunately, parents are afraid to use traditional remedies and fever, often causing more damage than benefits.
Adult doses of ibuprofen and paracetamol are not only lower the fever, but may worsen the situation, given that paracetamol causes asthma and allergies in children under 15 months. The main problem of children with fever, then, parents would be more concerned to normalize the thermometer, which does not effectively take care of their children.
I am awareness, particularly among specialists of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a study, were determined to remind parents that fever is not a disease, rather, is a way that the body has to defend itself from infection. According to the research, about half of parents in giving the wrong dose of ibuprofen and acetaminophen to their children, putting them at risk of serious side effects.
"There is a kind of fever phobia - say the researchers - which leads parents to abuse both drugs. A body temperature a little higher is the mode used by the body to defend itself against infection, reduce fever and even when it is not particularly high can actually prolong the illness rather than shorten it.
" Not considering the dose in children, the parents administered the same doses for children and adults this may make them victims of more serious side effects, such as asthma and ulcers. Paracetamol is therefore to be avoided if the fever is low, and especially in the doses that we used to take us when we are wrong.
For children, it takes more caution and, as a cold treatment of children with zinc, it is said that other mineral supplements also can not make up for medication. If you send a few degrees of fever in a panic, it's probably a reaction apprehensive that the child does not receive even a disease.
When the children were all taken in their games, even with their friends or siblings, difficult to realize a few degrees more in temperature. If you feel bad, it means that the fever has risen further and then the case is to implement the measures identified by drug pediatrician. But let's not panic, in these cases, we would make a mistake whose consequences are borne by all those who, instead, we want to protect. 
Adult doses of ibuprofen and paracetamol are not only lower the fever, but may worsen the situation, given that paracetamol causes asthma and allergies in children under 15 months. The main problem of children with fever, then, parents would be more concerned to normalize the thermometer, which does not effectively take care of their children.
I am awareness, particularly among specialists of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a study, were determined to remind parents that fever is not a disease, rather, is a way that the body has to defend itself from infection. According to the research, about half of parents in giving the wrong dose of ibuprofen and acetaminophen to their children, putting them at risk of serious side effects.
"There is a kind of fever phobia - say the researchers - which leads parents to abuse both drugs. A body temperature a little higher is the mode used by the body to defend itself against infection, reduce fever and even when it is not particularly high can actually prolong the illness rather than shorten it.
" Not considering the dose in children, the parents administered the same doses for children and adults this may make them victims of more serious side effects, such as asthma and ulcers. Paracetamol is therefore to be avoided if the fever is low, and especially in the doses that we used to take us when we are wrong.
For children, it takes more caution and, as a cold treatment of children with zinc, it is said that other mineral supplements also can not make up for medication. If you send a few degrees of fever in a panic, it's probably a reaction apprehensive that the child does not receive even a disease.
When the children were all taken in their games, even with their friends or siblings, difficult to realize a few degrees more in temperature. If you feel bad, it means that the fever has risen further and then the case is to implement the measures identified by drug pediatrician. But let's not panic, in these cases, we would make a mistake whose consequences are borne by all those who, instead, we want to protect.
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