calpol and nurofen, can you use both together?

[bensmum3]

Hi,
Ds is 19 months and has a temp of 40 oC, nearly all day despite 4 hourly calpol, a friend has given me nurofen, can I use it sooner than 4 hours ?, I know it's ok with adults, but ds has only had calpol a couple of times before.

hi my mum is really sick and the doctor came and gave her an injection for vomiting but the doctor said she cant take nurofen or anything like that on an empty stomach and my mums not able 2 eat do you think she could take 1 for her pain in her head?? please someone have an answer for me asap

glenncoco you can get paracetamol suppositories , however they are really expensive.
Both my 2 have febrile convulsions and the hospital worked out the dosage by weight and were told 4 hourly for calpol and 8 hours for nuerofen.

ok tanks for your help christywhisty . i gave my mam 1 nurofen and it worked and then she was able 2 take 1 more later wen she drank sum flat 7up and finally a dry cracker .

I was just about to post about Nurofen for toddlers. Bottle says '2.5ml dose 3 to 4 times a day': but does this mean during the actual day (ie, 12 hrs roughly) or over 24hrs?

I think the former, becasue for immunisation effects in young babies they talk about a 24hr period - why use a different expression unless the measure is meant to be different??

Also: 3 to 4 doses in a 12 hr period would square with what other posters have been told about staggering calpol and nurofen so that one is administered every two hrs.

Do I make sense ?

Ibuprofen (=nurofen) is three doses in 24 hours - don't go above this unless someone has prescribed it.

Paracetamol (=calpol) is 4 doses in 24 hours.

So you can have, for example,

Calpol 8am, 1pm, 6pm, 10pm

Nurofen 10am, 3pm, 8pm

Or alter appropriately. If you think they'll need something at night, hold back a dose or two.

The every two hours advice is to get you/them through a rough patch, and does NOT override the daily maximums.

I alternate capol and nurofen every three hours (ie one dose of paracetamol every 6 hours and one nurofen every 6 hours) and find thats works pretty well for all but the most extreme fevers.

jessica mummy i agree, this is what doctor told me to do recently. but not for more than one day i was advised.