This is educative........ As a Casualty clinician in the Children Emergency Room, I have seen beautiful promising babies lose their lives because of PARACETAMOL . Yes! Paracetamol has killed so much more babies than you can ever imagined. A case scenario: This 2year old was rushed to the emergency room with gasping respiration... Obviously he was about to die on arrival. As usual, we launched into action to salvage this young chap. While working to save his life, we were asking questions from the mother to know when the illness started... "It started with fever last week" was the response. "Why then did you not bring the child since then?", we inquired. "The fever came down after I gave him paracetamol", the mother answered. That was how the mother continued to give this baby paracetamol until the child could no longer stand erect... Then the baby became breathless and was rushed to the hospital. When we examined, it was obvious the child need...
