Paracetamol can cause childhood asthma

In the first months of life, babies often do not give medicines that contain acetaminophen. Scientists have found that because of this the children grow significantly the risk of asthma at the time of admission to kindergarten.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen found that the more often in the first year of life the child receives paracetamol   or preparations on its basis, the higher the risk of subsequent development of his respiratory problems, including asthma. These studies published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. This is another proof of the existence of a potential association between   paracetamol   and childhood asthma .

However, the researchers themselves claim that they failed to establish a direct causal link. Professor Hans Bisgaard in this regard encourages parents to use acetaminophen to help children only in the most urgent cases. For example, when a child consistently held a very high temperature. In this case, the use of paracetamol is justified and is beneficial to the health of the baby.

In the sphere of attention of researchers from Denmark were 336 children, the health of which they are observed from birth to seven years. All kids mother suffered from asthma, and what to put themselves at risk. By three years 19% of the observed first symptoms appeared childhood asthma But they are more common in children who received more of paracetamol.

So for every doubling of the number of days during which the child received this medication, risk of asthma in three years grew by 28%. However, it becomes a victim of this disease children might well be painful birth, which forced their parents to give them paracetamol.

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