there's been a lot of "noise" in the ultrarunning arena lately about the use of ibuprofen. the young man who won where's waldo 100k this year was hospitalized after taking ibuprofen after his race and having acute renal failure.
one of the members of my trail running club just posted this link to our mailing list. it has an excerpt from an article a doctor wrote about the use of ibuprofen during western states 100. basically, they found increased indicators of inflammation in the people who had taken ibuprofen (most people take ibuprofen to REDUCE inflamation). the ibuprofen didn't help with muscle damage or muscle soreness. the result: people who didn't take it were just as well off as the people who did.
my concern with all this is that problems can arise even if you're not taking large doses of ibuprofen and especially if you're already dehydrated. its kind of crazy how little we (as a society) know about a drug that we (the sports community) jokingly refer to as "vitamin i."
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