Social media post warning that 4 young people were taken to ICU after treating coronavirus with ibuprofen is FAKE
BRITS are being warned about a fake social media post which claims four young people ended up in intensive care after treating coronavirus with ibuprofen.
He told the Today programme: "There have been a number of salacious stories circulating on social media. "They had no underlying medical conditions at all and took ibuprofen or another non-steroidal inflammatory drug to help with the symptoms when they contracted coronavirus and have all ended up in intensive care.
Take paracetamol to treat the symptoms of corornavirus, unless your doctor has told you paracetamol is not suitable for youIt follows advice from the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance who has suggested people should not take the drug to treat Covid-19. PHE said that most people with Covid-19 will have a mild illness and some people may need to take medicines, such as paracetamol or ibuprofen, to help with raised temperature, headache and other pains.But other experts in Britain have said that people should use paracetamol to relieve symptoms caused by infection such as fever.
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