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This isn't a scientific take necessarily, but did those studies look at the overall time of resolution of the illness and severity of the fever and related symp
by ilaksh 2y ago
This isn't a scientific take necessarily, but did those studies look at the overall time of resolution of the illness and severity of the fever and related symptoms as well as the activity level of the patients?
Because for me, significant fever is always accompanied by some degree of malaise. Without drugs, the only way to relieve it is to conserve energy and immobilize.
My thought is that if you take the pain reliever so that you feel better and are able to do another task then this will likely increase the time needed to recover, since the body is not able to focus as much of it's resources on the immune system while you are doing something else.
If you take a pain reliever and it allows you to rest more effectively than you would be able to without it, maybe that would actually benefit the immune system though.
- bamboozled 2y agoI usually only use them when I can’t rest due to pain or discomfort. I’m going to bet the resting is more important than the not resting with a fever. But I’d love to know the scientific answer too.
- vundercind 2y agoI’m pretty much certain that 8-9hrs of sleep per night with a fever reducer and/or decongestant and a little bit of weed is gonna get me better faster than no drugs and getting three or fewer hours of sleep multiple nights in a row. When illnesses get really bad for me it’s usually because they’ve only let me sleep like five total hours in three nights or something like that, due to fever chills or lots of snot and a very-sore throat. The lack of sleep is what wrecks me.
- bamboozled 2y agoIf you have kids, welcome to 5 hours a night for 2 years!
- vundercind 2y agoShift sleeping with a few hours of overlap, and one sleep-in day each on the weekends, meant this was never a major problem for us (three kids). We were getting 7ish most nights even in the worst months (which was really only the first three or so)
- bamboozled 2y agoDid you guys do shift sleeping from day one ? We do it but it took us about a year to get right.
- polotics 2y agoAlso, if you take the pain reliever and it allows you to drink more water while resting...