Like, I get that if you have a 102° fever, a fever reduced may knock you down to 100°, but what about if you’ve got a 99° temp? Will it still reduce your temperature?
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Recently had a bad fever and was curious why fevers even occur. AFAIR when a fever happens, our hypothalamus detects a certain toxin in our blood introduced by the infection and raises our internal temp so that white blood cells can be released to fight it. My guess is a fever reducer suppresses the hypothalamus from doing this which means it only prevents an increase in temp and couldn’t really decrease it.
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