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Letter: Breathtaking

Published 29 April 2000

From Stephen Ellis

Reading of the discovery that frequent use of paracetamol can aggravate
asthma
(25 March, p 5), I wondered whether anybody is looking for a correlation
between increasing sales of paracetamol linctus for children and the perplexing
rise in the incidence of asthma in recent years?

s.ellis@pindar.com

Issue no. 2236 published 29 April 2000

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