These are the mainstays of fever-reducing medicines, and can be used in babies. WHAT DOES HELP LOWER A FEVER:Įverybody knows about acetaminophen (Tylenol and others, abbreviated “APAP”) and ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin and others, abbreviated “IBU”). 3 categories, along with a few nuanced details that I think are important to know. So let’s review what helps a fever what might or might not help, and what definitely DOESN’T help bring down a fever. We can split hairs about what constitutes a fever another time. Why don’t we say for the sake of this document that we are calling fever a body temperature greater than 38C, which is 100.4F. Lots of people debate what IS and ISN’T a fever, and that’s its own discussion, but not for this post. I had a great time reading all the different suggestions, and after it all I thought that it might be worth thinking about reducing fever itself in more detail. Many have no actual research or evidence to support that they actually work, but they probably don’t hurt either.
There’s a lot of literature out there suggesting different herbs and other therapies to help bring down a fever, and most of these are harmless. Yet now, after all these years of medical training and practice, I think my mom and dad did a-ok with their fever management. I was jealous of kids with doting parents who had all sorts of different remedies to get rid of the high temperature. They just gave me a fever-reducer medicine and had me take a lukewarm bath without much fuss. And they wouldn’t let me bundle up in a really warm blanket when I had the chills. Whenever I was sick with a fever growing up I always felt like I was undertreated by my parents because they never put a cool, damp washcloth on my forehead when I got a fever. Who applies a damp cloth to the forehead during a fever? You? Your mom?
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