High doses of paracetamol may help patients with stroke
According to a new study conducted by researchers from the Netherlands, large doses of paracetamol improves prognosis in patients with stroke and elevated body temperature. Due to its accessibility, is a popular febrifuge may be one of the methods of treatment of stroke.
It is known that increasing the temperature above 37 degrees immediately after stroke worsens prognosis, and the probability of a bad outcome is doubled when the temperature is increased for each additional degree. Temperatures above 37.5 degrees is found in every third patient with stroke. Paracetamol at a dose of 6 g per day lowers the temperature by about 0.3 degrees.
Heleen den Hertog and colleagues at the Erasmus University (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) conducted a study, which involved 1 400 patients with stroke. Patients were treated with paracetamol or placebo.
It was found that 40% of patients with a temperature of 37-39 degrees, treated with paracetamol, recovering from a stroke better than one might expect.
The authors say that to confirm these results, larger studies are needed, but in all probability, paracetamol can be an inexpensive and safe method of treatment of stroke.
Source material Reuters.
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