Antipyretic use among @entity1 during the 1983 XXXX season.

@entity1 @entity117 @entity683 @entity5868 @entity1443
We conducted a telephone survey in Houston in March 1983 to assess the level of @entity117 use among @entity1 during the @entity683 season. We completed interviews of 200 households with 346 @entity1 aged 12 years or younger. Fifty-two percent of the 346 @entity1 experienced at least one acute illness in the preceding three months. Fever was measured with a thermometer in 114 ill @entity1 , 103 of whom had at least one measured temperature of 37.7 degrees C or greater. Fourteen percent of these 103 @entity1 received @entity117 only, 61% received @entity1443 only, and 20% received both. Among a subgroup of 44 @entity1 with temperatures of at least 39.4 degrees C, 11% received @entity117 only, 59% received @entity1443 only, and 27% received both. Only 60% of the 200 parents interviewed had heard of @entity5868 . Forty-two percent knew of the association between @entity5868 and @entity117 use. The survey suggests that @entity1443 has replaced @entity117 as the major antipyretic used by @entity1 in Houston. If the decline in @entity117 use in Houston is representative of the population in the United States, and if @entity117 is causally related to @entity5868 , the incidence of @entity5868 may decline.
