Celecoxib
Approved, for something elseMeasured in people, not heightBy mouthSmall moleculeAlso Celebrex
An arthritis drug that blocks only the inducible COX enzyme, licensed for arthritis in children from the age of two.
A diaryl-substituted pyrazole, selective for the inducible enzyme. Its label attributes the effect to inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis, primarily through COX-2, and approves it for osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, acute pain, primary dysmenorrhoea and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in patients 2 years and older.
Risks. It carries the strongest warning a drug label can carry: heart attack, stroke, and bleeding, ulceration or perforation of the stomach and gut, any of which can be fatal, and the gut events can start without any warning symptom. In children it has not been studied beyond six months, and nobody has evaluated what years of it would do to a child's heart.
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