While administering medicines to children, one has to be extra careful about the side effects since their tender bodies are not able to take some drugs.
Lately a research has postulated that ibuprofen, a painkiller is okay for kids with broken bones, bruises and sprains.
Available generically and under the brand names Advil and Motrin, ibuprofen beat generic acetaminophen and codeine in an emergency room study of 300 children treated at a Canadian hospital.
Some kids aged 6 to 17 were offered average doses of one of the three medications and were divided into three groups, then their pain was recorded. The ratings were similar for trio.
The children who were subjected to ibuprofen accounted for greater pain relief. Also, the scholars postulated that the children suffered with no side effects.
Dr. Steven Krug, head of emergency medicine at Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital said, Ibuprofen may work better for pain from trauma because it targets inflammation while acetaminophen and codeine do not.
