Common painkillers for infant colic relief

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https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-4840.2019v21i3a9

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infant, crying, shaken baby syndrome, fever, vomiting

Abstract

Nine cases of healthy babies diagnosed with colic for whom dipyrone or paracetamol were prescribed are analyzed here. Parents registered the symptoms for 7 to 10 days and it showed that the medications were not administered every day; that most infants received one or two doses per day, in the evening-night period and the crying stopped within 30 minutes after the medication. The cases corroborate the prescription of painkillers to alleviate infant colic and such data should be included in future clinical essays.

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2019-12-09

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Palhares D. Common painkillers for infant colic relief. Rev. Fac. Ciênc. Méd. Sorocaba [Internet]. 2019Dec.9 [cited 2024Nov.21];21(3):141-4. Available from: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/RFCMS/article/view/39431

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