Pilot study of feasibility of a randomised controlled trial of asthma risk with paracetamol versus ibuprofen use in infancy
Judith Riley, Anna Hunt, Alice McDouall, Steve Waqanivavalagi, Irene Braithwaite, Mark Weatherall, Thorsten Stanley, Richard Beasley, Edwin A Mitchell, Stuart R Dalziel
This pilot study assessed the likelihood of recruiting infants into a study that would randomly allocate infants to use only paracetamol or ibuprofen for fevers and pain from birth until the age of one year, and to then compare the rates of asthma between the two groups when the children turned six years old.