Most parents in the world today think very little of giving their child paracetamol in various formulations.
But a growing body of evidence since about 2009 shows significant dose-dependent correlations between paracetamol exposure and a range of negative health outcomes, including asthma, autism, attention disorders, and eczema.
The number of studies is really getting staggering, and when you think about how often the media goes completely mad over some individual study about a drug or whatever, it's shocking to me that this research isn't widely known about and reported on, and that parents are still reaching for paracetamol rather than ibuprofen to reduce fevers, even now that it's well-established (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17523700) that the reasons for ibuprofen and aspirin not being given were not really valid in the first place (Reye's syndrome seems to be caused by specific metabolic problems, rather than aspirin exposure).
Here are a few bits of research for your reading pleasure. AIBU to think that in 20 years, our children's generation will be shocked that we spent years giving this drug to children quite freely even after evidence began to show it was causing a wide range of problems?
www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/rccm.201005-0757oc
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.1591/full
academic.oup.com/ije/article/45/6/1987/2617189
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044872/
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924933817329899
www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(14)01277-9/abstract
pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/128/6/1181.short