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Episode 37: Ibuprofen and Chickenpox

I've always liked Bob Rogers' description of Facebook as "an educational cul-de-sac." So when horrific descriptions of what happens when you give a child with chickenpox a dose of ibuprofen emerged on the site they surely couldn't be true, could they? Let Dr Alasdair Munro guide you through fact and fiction and hopefully provide a little bit of evidence along the way.

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Two Paeds In A Pod
Conversations across paediatrics, with a frontline emergency lens.

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Ian Lewins

I am a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine and clinical lead at Derby in the UK. I am also Medical Director of Postgraduate Medical Education at UHDB