Acetaminophen use in adolescents is linked to development and/or maintenance of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema, according to the results of a global study reported online August 13 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.Better not to use diet drugs - especially since they don't work, anyway.
"This study has identified that the reported use of acetaminophen in 13- and 14-year-old adolescent children was associated with an exposure-dependent increased risk of asthma symptoms," said first author Richard W. Beasley, MD, professor of medicine at the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand in Wellington, in a news release, on behalf of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC).
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Acetaminophen Use in Adolescents May Double Risk for Asthma
And this is for a "safe" drug used for years - they will find more risk associations for the IMHO malpractice known as diet drugs.
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