Children's Advil Bad Reaction?

Half my family is "allergic" to tylenol.

It's technically not an allergy / not a histamine response, but a reactivity to it on a neurological level.

Starts off as a bad reaction (hallucinations, heart palpatations... moves onto heart attack and stroke). Their bodies react to acetaminophen/paracetamol the way most people react to stimulants. It's not normal. It's a quirk of neurology. ((Also why there isn't any ONE med for depression/adhd/bipolarity/etc. People's neurochem is all slightly different! So different meds react differently))

People can be allergic or have bad reactions to ANY substance. Because everything (from peanuts to bleach to insects) is made up of chemicals, and our bodies react to chemicals differently.

Personally, I'd do an empirical test:

Give the ibuprofen when your baby is 100% WELL. Because what you describe sounds like normal bleary sickness. If it happens when they're WELL and given the med... then it's time to contraindicate it.

I think you need to talk to the pediatrician about this.

I would def talk to your PED about this. Those meds are not supposed to make kids react like that. They could be allergic to them. Good luck!

My daughter is allergic to Advil (ibruprofen). She went so hyoer at 2 I couldn't calm her down.
She is also allergic to Aleve (Naproxyn). She had an anaphylactic shock reaction in the pool last month, She is 16.
Both the Pharmacist and Dr told me to stay away from NSAIDs, aspirin and sulphur drugs.

Talk to the pediatrician and tell him what happened. Lots of medications contain naproxyn and similar drugs.

This does NOT at all seem like a reaction to the Advil. Read the bottle. This is simply your child being between sleep stages. When exhausted children do this and they might have night terrors. As your child gets older the sleep stages and the times of and inbetween each change and it becomes more like an adult sleep pattern. No worries.

try acetaminophen if your child is allergic to ibuprofen. it may have been just because he wasn't feeling well and not sleeping well. the only way to know for sure is to try it again and watch him for those signs again. because I think it says on the bottle that it can cause nervousness and make your child have a hard time sleeping with ibuprofen.

I don't know if it's an allergy, but you should call his dr. and let him know today. My daughter is allergic to ibuprofen and her whole face swelled up with it. It was awful!