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 / 6 Photo: facebook.com/becky.doerksen Photo: facebook.com/becky.doerksen Photo: facebook.com/becky.doerksen Photo: facebook.com/becky.doerksen Photo: facebook.com/becky.doerksen Photo: facebook.com/becky.doerksen Two bleeding ulcers were found in Alba's stomach. The baby spent 30 hours after the operation under droppers: she was injected with blood and glucose. She could not eat, and indeed move. And all after two doses of baby advil. To warn parents of the possible danger, Becky described her experience on. Her post got more than 70 thousand shares. “I don't want to scare anyone. I want people to have all the information they need. Nobody warned me about the risk. I feel incredibly guilty - because because of me, because I gave Alba the medicine, my girl had to go through all this, ”Becky wrote. Tatiana Butskaya, pediatrician:
- ibuprofen is non-steroidanti-inflammatory drug. When using this group of drugs is rare, but it is possible the development of erosive-ulcerative lesions of the gastrointestinal tract and bleeding. Personally, I am only using paracetamol for use in children under one year old. And rectally, not orally, because the child can spit out a part of the drug, and you will never know what dose of medication still got inside. My advice: before rectal injection of paracetamol candles to a child, put a vapor pipe so that the baby can empty the intestines with the gases, otherwise the candle can cause defecation. After the discharge of the chair, you can put a candle.
