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According to a report in the journal Pediatrics last year, up to a third of kids go to the doctor because of symptoms that include fever. Just based on my own observations, more than half of the calls from parents in my own practice are related to fevers in their children.
So why do we worry about fever? The simple answer is because we've been sold a bill of goods for many years.
For otherwise healthy kids (and adults, too), fever is a normal and healthy response to infection. It is an indication of your body's ability to fight off infection by making the body inhospitable to viruses or bacteria. ...