Antipyretic children give everything. Well, the truth is, there is no such thing that children do not get sick and they do not have to churn the temperature. So Becky Atkinson from Canada gave - when her baby Alba started to cut her teeth, the nurse advised to give the girl an advil. This is a syrup, the main active ingredient in which is ibuprofen. Advil and in our country is quite popular along with another ibuprofen derivative - nurofen. The medicine has done its job: Alba stopped crying, cheered up, life got better. Becky has already forgotten about the episode with Advil. Suddenly, changing my daughter's diaper, I discovered something strange. The contents of the diaper were black. The baby looked as usual - it didn’t seem to bother her. But the frightened mother still called the ambulance. At first they didn’t really believe her: the nurse decided that Becky was exaggerating, and even asked to compare the color of the child’s chair with the color of the TV remote. Is it true black? And then she advised me to contact the emergency department: “Most likely, it's okay, but just in case ...”
Photo: facebook.com/becky.doerksenBecca put her daughter in a pram, slammed the door, patted the dog on the head and went to the hospital. She did not think that she could return home only after three days. “I didn’t let the dog into the house, even the beast didn’t lock it,” the woman said. The doctor, having examined Alba, suggested that she had anemia. At this time, Becky took out of the bag "hotel" - Alba's diaper. Looking at him, the doctor instantly changed his mind: he sent the diaper for tests, and the mother said that the baby most likely had internal bleeding. After a few minutes, Becky and Alba were already in the ambulance and went to the hospital in a nearby city - the doctor’s suspicions were confirmed. But where does a ten-month-old baby have internal bleeding from? More tests, more tests, an x-ray in case Alba swallowed something, the doctors couldn't understand anything. The doctors interrogated Becky tirelessly: didn't the little one swallow something? Didn't eat anything inappropriate? No, no, no again. “Maybe she was given an Advil?” A sacramental question sounded. And Becky remembered cutting teeth, four in a row. “Yes, in one dose, 2–3 nights, as advised by the nurse,” the mother answered bewilderedly. The girl was sent for endoscopy, and the mother was put out the door. The next time Becky saw her daughter only after a two-hour operation. “It was the longest hours of my life,” recalls Becky.
1/6Photo: facebook.com/becky.doerksenPhoto: facebook.com/becky.doerksenPhoto: facebook.com/becky.doerksenPhoto: facebook.com/becky.doerksenPhoto: facebook.com/becky.doerksenPhoto: facebook.com/becky.doerksenTwo bleeding ulcers were found in Alba’s stomach. The little girl spent 30 hours after the operation on IVs: they infused her with blood and glucose. She was not allowed to eat or move at all. And all after two doses of children’s Advil. To warn parents about the possible danger, Becky described her experience on . Her post has been shared more than 70,000 times. “I don’t want to scare anyone. I want people to have all the information they need. No one warned me about the risk. I feel incredibly guilty – because it was because of me, because I gave Alba the medicine, that my girl had to go through all this,” Becky wrote. Tatyana Butskaya, pediatrician:
- Ibuprofen is a non-steroidalanti-inflammatory drug. When using this group of drugs, erosive and ulcerative lesions of the gastrointestinal tract and bleeding may develop, although rarely. Personally, I am for the use of only paracetamol in children under one year old. Moreover, rectally, not orally, because the child can spit out some of the drug, and you will never know what dose of the drug actually got inside. My advice: before administering paracetamol suppositories rectally to a child, insert a gas-discharge tube so that the baby empties his intestines along with the gases, otherwise the suppository may provoke defecation. After the stool has passed, you can insert the suppository.
