Billy Gard wrote:
>
> But when I get fever, which causes chills because the body wants to be hot,
> I cooperate and help the body get comfortably warm. I've actually read
> advice to do the opposite, to try to kill the fever with cold. CRAZY idea!
> Since the fever is there to "burn" away something that shouldn't be there.
> Now if it gets dangerously high and/or disruptive, I am for regulating it
> even if it requires, god forbid, a Tylenol. Once someone said in an article
> that when you feel a cold first coming on, bundle up and go for a light jog
> so that you are hot and sweaty. This may head it off by helping the body
> "fever" it away.

Some people think that the higher than normal temperature when we have a
fever kills some germs. On the other hand, I have read (no idea if it is
sustained by studies) that very high temperature (>= 42) can damage the
brain. Another worry is dehydratation, especially in young kids.

About the tylenol, I believe that sleep helps us healing, and if I or my
kids are so sick that we cannot sleep, we use small doses (1/4 to 1/2 of the
prescribed dose for our weight) to help falling asleep.

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Yves.
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