motrin/advil

personally, if he was fine with it before, i would think he would be fine taking motrin. i plan on replacing tylenol with motrin as soon as Trace is 6 months. very soon…

Jill,

I worry about Motrin, too. I heard that in Europe there’s a “black box” warning on it and it’s strongly discouraged in use for infants. I do give it to Myles when his teething is really bad, but I am not comfortable with it at all.

Where did you hear about these reactions for Motrin?

I love the new picture of Aidan.

Sorry but whats Motrin- is it ibuprofen or asprin based?

Oh, I think they tell us not to use it until about 1 year over here unless advised by a Dr- I remember there being some research that found it was associated with stomach problems in adults, I can’t use it at all, makes me ill.

I think this sometimes happens because new research comes out- like the whole anti-depressant thing in kids. They prescribed them willy nilly and then research showed it increased suicide rates and violence! So now they come with big warning labels! I work in the health field and its interesting because they hardly ever use ibuprofen in hospitals- they start with paracetamol and if people need more usually go to a prescription drug.

While I totally agree with all of you that I’d avoid motrin unless it’s really necessary, I would also make sure that I still keep some in the house. Kaelyn had an awful virus last spring with really high fevers. I was giving her tylenol and it was doing nothing to bring the fever down. Her ped said that once a fever gets over a certain temp (I think it was 102), tylenol is basically useless and they need motrin. We ended up needing to alternate between the two meds every 3 hours just to keep the fever at a reasonable level.