• Fever is a body’s response to infection and is not necessarily a sign of a worse illness.
• Treating fever does not affect recovery in a positive or negative way.
• Treat fever if it makes your child feel better, and not if they seem fine.
• If a child is totally unconsolable or is very hard to wake up or hasn’t been peeing at all, this is when you worry.
• Ibuprofen seems to work better on fever in randomized trials.
Published January 23, 2023
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