If the purpose of a fever is to help the body fight an infection why is paracetamol prescribed to bring it down?
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i was trying to find a news story that answered this exact question that aired locally recently but im failing.
My understanding based on that story is that fever is something the body does to help fight. But it is more a side effect of the body fighting off the illness than the primary mechanism of the fighting. It also makes the person feel badly. So by reducing the fever you arnt greatly impacting the body’s ability to fight off the illness but it is more a trade off to make the person more comfortable while the body fights. It might add a bit of time to the fight, but you feel better for the duration of that fight.
Someone that actually knows what they are talking about can correct me.
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