Indications: mild to moderate pain, pyrexia in children, menorrhagia.

Cautions: exclude pathological conditions before treating menorrhagia; breast-feeding; porphyria.

Contra-indications: inflammatory bowel disease.

Side Effects: drowsiness; diarrhoea or rashes (withdraw treatment); thrombocytopenia, haemolytic anaemia (positive Coombs' test), and aplastic anaemia reported; convulsions in overdosage.

Dose: 500 mg 3 times daily after food.

Child over 6 months, 25 mg/kg daily in divided doses for not more than 7 days, except in juvenile chronic arthritis (Still's disease).