One of the first things a parent will do when a child runs a fever is to reach for the fever-reducing medication. But, is fever a bad thing? Should you fight it? Or, should you let it do what your body wants it to do?
Fever! Should you treat it, is a subject sure to irritate many a parent and health-care provider. I wish I had included a chapter about it in Lies My Doctor Told Me. Here's what you need to know, with the research listed below.

Research:
2021 journal: https://academic.oup.com/emph/article...
Fever Questioned: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8...
Value of Fever: https://evolutionmedicine.files.wordp...
Evidence Against fighting Fever: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
CD8 T cells enhanced by fever: https://jlb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d...
Treating fever gave worse outcome: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
No improvement in outcome treating fever: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
Fever is 600,000,000 years old: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Lowering fever to prevent febrile seizures: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
Lowering fever to prevent febrile seizures: https://www.acepnow.com/article/emerg...
Rethinking Fever: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Evolution of Fever: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Fever in Adults: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
A20 gene & Fever: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/arti...
NF, A20 & Fever: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115...
Even Reptiles use Fever to fight Infection: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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