Why You Shouldn't Fight A Fever

[Quixote1818]

[ffr]

1. Hearing more and more about how lower fevers are your body's defenses ramping up

Let the fever run its course, is the advise, just as outlined in this video.

[Crowman2009]

2. With a regular cold, I break out the spicy food, garlic cloves, and bury myself in several layers...

...of blankets. Not for the faint of heart.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Yep, fever is your body's immune response trying to make itself inhospitable to the invader.

Sometimes you HAVE to mute it, but don't if you don't absolutely have to.

[hedda_foil]

4. Yes, but covid-19 requires 170 degrees to kill it. Fevers over 103 are dangerous in themselves.

A fever that goes much beyond that kills. Why do you think ER's immerse fever victims in ice baths? Your posts on this issue are highly misleading and could kill a DUer or two if they take it too seriously. I strongly urge you to delete these posts.

[Warpy]

5. Not horribly dangerous, unless people aren't able to hydrate

Low grade fevers are generally helpful, that 100-102F you might have with a particularly bad cold. The new guideline is not to treat any fever under 102F. The guideline says that if an adult with a temperature of 102F or more is uncomfortable, the fever should be treated.

Any fever under 102F os seen as a good thing and not treated. Patients treated with antipyretics generally dropped into the low grade fever range, not normal range, but it varied.

I've gone to 105 with peritonitis. I don't recommend it.

[hedda_foil]

6. Exactly, Warpy. 103+ is no longer beneficial but dangerous.

[Warpy]

7. Not dangerous, just uncomfortable as hell.

You have to get to the 105-6 range before a hospital will put you onto a cooling blanket and keep saline solution on ice at the bedside should your temperature not drop.