Sunday, September 8, 2013

Paracetamol increases the risk of asthma in children

If the child under one year often given acetaminophen, it could give them asthma after about five years, scientists say. Experts a study that analyzed the records of 200 thousand children. It was found that the use of paracetamol for fever in the first year of life increases the risk of asthma by 46% under the age of six or seven years. The study was published in the journal Lancet. Researchers can not for sure that it is the drug causes asthma, and not other factors, say. During the study, experts found that the use of paracetamol with cases of asthma in children in the last 50 years fell. This is a disturbing and experts advise not to give their children up to one year for each paracetamol cold diseases, but only in case of emergency., When the temperature reached 39 degrees Experts plan further studies of the exact link between the use Paracetamol and asthma to identify.

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