Medicine is medicine. My rov paskens that if the doc says to take it, you take it. And if it is a sick child – unquestionably! I am heartsick when I see people who let little children suffer with fever or headaches on Shabbos because they don’t want to give them tylenol or ibuprofen because “you can’t give medicine on Shabbos.” That is being a chosid shoteh. And that is my rov’s opinion, not merely mine.
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