Ibuprofen in children
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Adverse events in children taking either ibuprofen or acetaminophen are "rare and generally <1% for both treatments" in subjects under two and two to 18, according to an abstract of a study sponsored by Children's Advil maker Whitehall-Robins. The study is to be published in the Journal of Inflammopharmacology. The AEs include abdominal pain, insomnia and hyperkinesia. The Children's Analgesic Medicine Project (CAMP) was an open-label study comparing the safety of ibuprofen suspension with acetaminophen in 41,810 children ages one to 18 with fever and/or pain. "There was a slightly higher overall incidence of side effects in the ibuprofen group (17.6% v. 15%) for the younger children; and 11.9% v. 10.7% for the older children," the abstract says. The data were presented at the Whitehall-sponsored International Conference on Inflammopharmacology in Braselton, Ga. May 23-26