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85-year-old woman with Hx of stage 3 chronic kidney disease New onset dyspnea and intermittent mild fever Slight difficulty opening her mouth; no dental caries or cervical lymphadenopathy Elevated CRP Elevated BUN Follow the case as it develops.

This case study describes an adult man with a history of diabetes and hypertension presenting with painful lesions on his arms and legs. The description covers the course of his workup for presumptive infectious dermatitis through differential diagnosis when the infectious disease workup revealed sterile lesions, to the final diagnosis of Sweet syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis).

Although both acetaminophen and ibuprofen are commonly used for pain relief and fever reduction in children, recommendations for their use in this population are inconsistent, according to the researchers, whose study results were published in JAMA. Of the 241,138 participants over 19 studies, which treatment showed more promise in fever and pain reduction?