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Well 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?
by nonethewiser 3y ago
Well 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.