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NSAIDs Increase Bleeding After Tonsillectomy: Best Of: 1120
Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CqloQolNZsw/
If your child has a tonsillectomy, don’t use ibuprofen, Motrin or Advil, to control post-operative pain. A study from Harvard’s Boston Children’s Hospital shows that these drugs increase the risk of bleeding following tonsillectomy by 36%.
The study analyzed more than one-half million children under 18 years who underwent tonsil removal between 2004 and 2015. Another NSAID, ketoralac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug often used in the recovery room, increased the bleeding risk by nearly 40%.
How do you then help your kid get through recovery. Use acetaminophen, Tylenol, every 4 hours and give them plenty of sugar. I put my tonsillectomy patients on the Twinkie diet since sugar does damp pain.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0194599820970943
#bleeding #tonsillectomy #ibuprofen #nsaids
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By Howard G. Smith MD, AMVidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CqloQolNZsw/
If your child has a tonsillectomy, don’t use ibuprofen, Motrin or Advil, to control post-operative pain. A study from Harvard’s Boston Children’s Hospital shows that these drugs increase the risk of bleeding following tonsillectomy by 36%.
The study analyzed more than one-half million children under 18 years who underwent tonsil removal between 2004 and 2015. Another NSAID, ketoralac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug often used in the recovery room, increased the bleeding risk by nearly 40%.
How do you then help your kid get through recovery. Use acetaminophen, Tylenol, every 4 hours and give them plenty of sugar. I put my tonsillectomy patients on the Twinkie diet since sugar does damp pain.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0194599820970943
#bleeding #tonsillectomy #ibuprofen #nsaids