throwawayy477

also (Plos One)

I don't know what happened to Wenliang Li. What I know is that there have been reports of severe cases among young people without antecedents or pre-existing pathologies where I live and the common thread was that they took ibuprofen. In parallel, there are papers/preprints popping left and right suggesting that ibuprofen's side effects may worsen the symptoms of covid-19. Just google things, it's not hard to find.

Given that standard advice for young people (who are expected not to have severe cases) is to take fever-reducing medication like ibuprofen, I feel like we need a lot more information here before we can turn this correlation into causation.

There's other fever-reducing medication that doesn't involve anti-inflammation action. Paracetamol is fine.

Why are you putting severe in quotation marks?

Because I don't know the official terminology.

What makes you feel qualified to give medical advice on an Internet forum?

Because of where I work I have been given "primary sources", but of course you are free to not believe me. This is my own sentiment, feel free to look things up yourself.

no official guidelines exist. Only internet stories.

Not in the US, maybe, but such guidelines definitely exist where I live. Again, you do you

Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammation drug, which means it weakens somewhat your immune system (which is responsible for the inflammation in the first place). It makes sort of sense that taking such medication while infected with a virus for which there is no treatment can be dangerous.

In related news, there have been cases of "severe" forms of Covid-19 among young people with no antecedents, all of them having taken ibuprofen.

Please don't take ibuprofen.