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?
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As someone who gets sick a lot and asked a few of my doctors
The body just overcompensates. A lot. The body does not necessarily know that it’s in the world of great medicine and has one objective: survive. It just does this kinda stupidly.
It does the equivalent of finding a spider in your house and lighting the entire house on fire. Does it work? yeah.. But was it overkill? yeah.
Depending on the symptoms it’s better to just let it kinda do it’s thing unless it’s getting really bad, like comparing having a light fever of 101 for a day or two compared to burning up at a solid 105 degrees for a week.
Good to find a good balance, the body is still trying to do its thing, but if it’s straight trying to kill you then yeah it’s good to take something for it. Every symptom has a reason, but sometimes the symptoms start making life a lot harder.
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