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Randomised controlled trial of combined paracetamol and ibuprofen for fever.

Erlewyn-Lajeunesse MD, Coppens K, Hunt LP, Chinnick PJ, Davies P, Higginson IM, Benger JR

Clinical Sciences at South Bristol, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. Mich.Lajeunesse@bristol.ac.uk

A randomised open label study of the combined use of paracetamol and ibuprofen to rapidly reduce fever is reported. The advantage of using both medications is less than half a degree centigrade in the first hour, and insufficient to warrant routine use.

Published 24 April 2006 in Arch Dis Child, 91(5): 414-6.
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