Robert Lustig: In children, aspirin can cause Reye syndrome, leading to deadly fatty liver disease
3 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Robert Lustig recounts caring for children with Reye syndrome — previously healthy young children (around age 5 or younger) who developed acute fatty liver infiltration and died. He describes learning in 1984–85 that nearly every fatal Reye case had prior aspirin exposure, and states this discovery underlies the medical practice of not giving aspirin to children.
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