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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Coughing is good in certain amounts while sick, it eliminates pathogens from the lungs. But if you’re coughing up a lung, that can result in rib strains, broken ribs, etc. (ask me how I know, flu A gave me lasting rib strain in 2020 and it still hurts to breathe). So we give cough suppressants. Fever is good, it helps cook the pathogens. But if it gets too high your body’s proteins can’t function. If it gets dangerously high, we take fever reducers (edit: fever is fine but once it starts going above 103 you should probably take a fever reducer, but not before that, fever is good for fighting illness). An active immune system is good, but if your throat starts closing because it’s overactive then we take something to reduce its activity. A working body is about balance. And balance can be lost really easily when you’re sick.
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