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Health Tip: When Baby Has a Fever
Posted 7 May 2012 by Drugs.com
-- When a baby has a fever, parents may be unsure if this warrants a call to the pediatrician. The American Academy of Pediatricians offers these guidelines: You must call your pediatrician immediately if your infant is age 2 months or younger, with a rectal temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. Call the doctor if your child is between 3 months and 6 months old with a fever of 101 degrees or higher, or if baby is older than 6 months with a fever of 103 degrees or higher. Except for these cases, judge your child's symptoms and call the doctor if your child has a severe sore throat or earache, cough or a rash. Call the doctor if your child has a fever with diarrhea or vomiting, is very fussy or is sleeping excessively. If a fever persists in a child older than 1 year for longer than 24 hours, even if there are no other symptoms, call the pediatrician. Read more
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Parents Often Right to Bring Kids With Fever to the ER: Study
Posted 28 Feb 2012 by Drugs.com
TUESDAY, Feb. 28 – Many parents who bring their children to the emergency room with fevers are making the right decision, Dutch investigators report. "Self-referred febrile [feverish] children should not be generalized, and therefore not approached, as a uniform group of non-severely ill patients," said lead researcher Dr. Yvette van Ierland, from the department of pediatrics at Sophia Children's Hospital/Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam. "Measures to discourage parents from self-referral are undesirable," she added. "This may potentially result in delayed or missed diagnoses." In general, illnesses that are associated with a fever for which early diagnosis is important are serious bacterial infections, such as meningitis, bacteremia, urinary tract infections or pneumonia, Ierland said. The researchers found that one in four parents properly judged and acted on their ... Read more
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Baby's Fever May Not Signal Teething
Posted 10 Aug 2011 by Drugs.com
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 10 – If a baby is cranky, drooling and running a fever, teething often gets the blame. But a new study finds that while a baby's temperature rises slightly on the day he or she actually cuts a tooth, fever is not a symptom of teething – though the drooling and crankiness can be. "There was no association between fever and the eruption of primary teeth," said study author Joana Ramos-Jorge, a doctoral student at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. "This result surprised me because, like much of the population, I also believed that a fever could be a sign of tooth eruption." And though babies are more prone to symptoms such as irritability, sleep disturbances and increased salivation on the day the day tooth erupts and the day after, researchers could not tell which babies were about to cut a tooth based on those symptoms the day before, according to the ... Read more
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Kids' Fevers May Not Always Need Treatment
Posted 28 Feb 2011 by Drugs.com
MONDAY, Feb. 28 – Few things send a parent's fears soaring as quickly as a child's rapidly rising temperature. But, a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) attempts to allay those fears by reminding parents that a fever is usually just the body's natural response against illness, and that lowering a fever may actually prolong an illness. The AAP recommends that, in general, parents only treat a fever if it's making their child feel uncomfortable. "Fever is one of the most common reasons that parents contact pediatricians and health-care providers. Parents have concerns, and there are a lot of myths about bad things that can happen with a fever," said the report's lead author, Dr. Janice Sullivan, a professor of pediatric clinical care and clinical pharmacology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and Kosair Children's Hospital, in Kentucky. "Sometimes, ... Read more
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Cadence Pharmaceuticals Announces FDA Approval of Ofirmev (acetaminophen) injection for the Management of Pain and Fever
Posted 3 Nov 2010 by Drugs.com
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for Ofirmev (acetaminophen) injection, the first and only intravenous (IV) formulation of acetaminophen to be approved in the United States. Ofirmev is indicated for the management of mild to moderate pain, the management of moderate to severe pain with adjunctive opioid analgesics, and the reduction of fever. "The approval of Ofirmev is a significant milestone for Cadence as we advance our mission to improve the lives of hospitalized adults and children," said Ted Schroeder, President and CEO of Cadence. "IV acetaminophen is the unit market share leader among all injectable pain medications in Europe. With our planned launch early in the first quarter of 2011, we believe that Ofirmev will fill a significant gap ... Read more
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Kids' Fever Time Cut Using Ibuprofen First
Posted 3 Sep 2008 by Drugs.com
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) – Fever in young children can be reduced for a longer period of time by giving them ibuprofen, according to British researchers. In a study to determine whether ibuprofen and paracetamol (acetaminophen) worked alone or in combination for kids' fever, the researchers also found that the combination of the two could be considered if needed. The study included 156 children, ages 6 months to 6 years, who had a temperature between 100.04 and 105.8 F due to an illness that could be managed at home. The children were randomly selected to receive either paracetamol plus ibuprofen, just paracetamol, or just ibuprofen. The parents were instructed to give the medicines for up to 48 hours – paracetamol every four to six hours (maximum of four doses in 24 hours), and ibuprofen every six to eight hours (maximum of three doses in 24 hours). The researchers ... Read more
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