Why do we take medicine to suppress symptoms like coughing, fever, etc. when those are our bodies way of fighting infection?

Question

I’m sick rn and I’ve taken medication to reduce my fever. But isn’t a fever your body trying to cook out the infection? Ofc it could cook me as well, but if my fever goes away then won’t that just aid the germs?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I think this is more people don’t like being uncomfortable.

My doctor has always told me to simply ride out and fevers or sicknesses they don’t require me to go to hospital and whilst uncomfortable, I find I recover slightly faster