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It makes me think of running a fever. Its easy to think of fevers as bad but I imagine it would be a lot worse to simply stop the fever (if that were even possi
by nonethewiser 3y ago
It makes me think of running a fever. Its easy to think of fevers as bad but I imagine it would be a lot worse to simply stop the fever (if that were even possible).
- smolder 3y ago> (if that were even possible) Indeed it is. Tylenol, for instance, is marketed as a fever reducer.
- nonethewiser 3y agoWell perhaps this proves my intuition wrong. Is it OK to reduce a fever then? But how so if its purpose is to kill off something worse?
- smolder 3y agoIANAD, so someone please correct me, but I think there's some truth that treating a mild fever will just interfere with what the immune system is doing, to its detriment. On the other hand, very high fevers in themselves are quite dangerous and so being able to lower someone's temperature is a benefit.