Вопросы современной педиатрии (Jan 2009)

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS OF NONSTEROID ANTI-INFLAMMATORY MEDICATIONS IN TREATMENT OF ENT-DISEASES IN CHILDREN

  • M.M. Sergeev,
  • S.L. Kovalenko

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 81 – 84

Abstract

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This trial included 97 children with acute tonsillopharyngitis (angina), acute pharyngitis, laryngitis, otitis media. Ibubrofen suspension (Nurofen for Children) was administrated in standard dose. Good and excellent analgetic and antipyretic result was registered in 75% of patients after 1 day, and satisfactory – in 25% of children. 44 children with different diseases of throat were treated with flurbiprofen as symptomatic anesthetic medication combined with other ones. Pain in throat and deglutitive problems were lessened after 2-3 hours after 1 administration of medication, and further reduction of symptoms was registered every 3 hours. Pain in throat was stopped in 38 children after 3 days of treatment. Thus, ibuprofen suspension and resorption tablets with flurbiprofen provide significant anesthetic effect in children, and they can be used in practice of children’s ENT specialist.Key words: children, ENT diseases, nonsteroid anti-inflammatory medications.(Voprosy sovremennoi pediatrii — Current Pediatrics. 2009;8(1):81-84)