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- Subject: Re: Chicken Pox
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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:31:53 GMT
- Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
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- In article <4610029@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> zornow@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Claudia Zornow) writes:
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- >> ... Other than that, don't take aspirin! (chicken pox + aspirin
- >> supposedly increases the risk of Reye's syndrome).
- >
- >Is this true of adults? I thought it was only true for children.
- >In fact, I thought that aspirin was not recommended for children
- >no matter what virus they have because of the risk of Reye's.
- >
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- Reyes' has been reported as old as college age, although it is
- very rare. He didn't say how old his girlfriend was. I think
- with mature adults, there is no documentated danger of Reyes'.
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- The reason for the prohibition with "any virus" isn't that
- any virus can lead to Reyes' but that how do you know it isn't
- one of the bad ones, such as Zoster (chicken pox) or Influenza B?
- Individual viral illnesses are hard to distinguish based on symptoms.
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