If getting fever is the body’s natural response to an infection, why do so many treatments attempt to reduce body temperature?
In: Biology
Your body is evolved for caveman times. If we were still living in caveman times, every day you spend sick is a day that you can’t go out and get food. A fever is intended to help get rid of the virus as quickly as possible. Even if it does some damage to the rest of your body, that’s better than going an extra day without food.
Today, being bedridden for a few days is no problem at all. There’s no reason to damage your body just for an extra day of work.
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