Articles / Paracetamol vs ibuprofen for young children
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These are activities that expand general practice knowledge, skills and attitudes, related to your scope of practice.
These are activities that require reflection on feedback about your work.
These are activities that use your work data to ensure quality results.
So you are presented with a one year old who has a fever. What do you recommend? Paracetamol? Ibuprofen?
It’s very much a GP question and to date there has been somewhat conflicting evidence, for the under two years age group at least, as to which is medication is better in terms of fever control, pain relief and safety.
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