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magicarpet

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7. A story in National Geographic recommends the same thing Tylenol rather than ibuprofen.
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 05:41 PM
Mar 2020

For taking care of the fever associated with many illnesses, including COVID-19, physicians suggest taking acetaminophen—known internationally as paracetamol—before ibuprofen. If the fever persists, patients should then consider switching to ibuprofen, says Julie Autmizguine, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at CHU Sainte-Justine in Montreal, Canada.

She and other doctors express this preference because ibuprofen and related drugs—called NSAIDs for short—can have harmful side effects, including kidney injury, stomach ulcers, and gastrointestinal bleeding.

https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/2020/03/as-coronavirus-surges-how-hospitals-are-treating-covid-disease

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