Nimesulide should NOT be given to treat fever in children. This drug brought into existence by
3M Pharmaceuticals, a US-based company is not permitted in the US itself, due to potential hazardous effects to the liver. In fact, Nimesulide is banned for children below 12 years of age in most countries. The ban came into effect when it was found that children who were prescribed this drug for fever in Portugal, died in large numbers.
Unfortunately, there are some countries that still insist on Nimesulide for fever and is combined with other fever drugs like paracetamol that can make the product even more toxic to the liver. Please bear in mind that fever is not really your enemy. High temperature of the body is actually a condition that tells you there is an ailment that needs to be diagnosed and treated.
Simply bringing down fever with strong hypothermic medicines like nimesulide can be dangerous as was evident in Bangladesh some years ago few years ago. About 12 children were given this medication and they all died because the real disease,, encephalitis, remained undiagnosed and not treated.
