• Better to live with a higher temperature

    Until it isn’t.

    Although I'm reminded of some of the recent(ish) advice about treating a fever in babies and children. The suggestion is parents over treat and for a moderate fever where the child isn't upset you don't need to treat. It was all over the news but at the moment the only thing I can find is https://www.medicinesforchildren.org.uk/news/do-i-need-treat-my-child%E2%80%99s-fever

    I know that as an adult I'll sometimes take paracetamol to lower my temperature because I've got commitments that I can't or don't want to drop when really I should just go to bed and sleep it off.

  • You shouldn't knock the placebo effect of paracetamol / calpol either.

    We have a bottle of homemade paracetomol-free placebo calpol that works wonders in reducing the symtpoms of self-limiting conditons.

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