PEDIATRICS Vol. 66 No. 6 December 1980, pp. 859-864
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Reye's Syndrome and Salicylate Use

Karen M. Starko MD1, C. George Ray MD1, Lee B. Dominguez BS1, Warren L. Stromberg MA1, and Dora F. Woodall BS1

1 Field Services Division, Bureau of Epidemiology, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta; Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Tucson; and Bureau of Epidemiology and Laboratory Services, Division of Disease Control Services, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix

During an outbreak of influenza A, seven patients with Reye's syndrome and 16 ill classmate control subjects were evaluated for characteristics of the patients' prodromal illness and the control subjects illness and for medication usage. Patients during the prodrome and control subjects had similar rates of sore throat, coryza, cough, headache, and gastrointestinal complaints except for documented fever which occurred significantly more often in patients than in control subjects (P = .05). While medications which did not contain salicylate were taken as frequently by patients as control subjects, patients took more salicylate-containing medications than did control children (P < .01). All seven patients took salicylate whereas only eight of 16 control subjects did so (P < .05). Patients took larger doses of salicylate than did the entire control group (P < .01). When the eight control subjects who took salicylate were compared with the patients, the patients still tended to take larger doses (P = .08). Patients with fever took salicylate more frequently than control subjects with fever (P < .01). In addition, salicylate consumption was correlated with severity of Reye's syndrome (P < .05). It is postulated that salicylate, operating in a dose-dependent manner, possibly potentiated by fever, represents a primary causative agent of Reye's syndrome.

Submitted on March 21, 1980
Accepted on May 9, 1980


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