excellent article! as a nurse, i am dismayed at the lack of parental education where fever is concerned. i remember when i was in college and we learned the pathophysiological events involved in a fever (wish i could remember all that now
) i was amazed and at that point stopped medicating my own fevers (adults get them so rarely, but i was the type that would get achey at a temp of 99 and take 2 tylenol
)
i have given both of my boys some tylenol and/or motrin when they are just downright feeling crappy. i think tucker has had it maybe 3 times in his life and griffin has gotten some ibuprofen this last week for some killer teething pains (or so i assume, as his upper gums are swollen and blanched and 2 bottom teeth have erupted).
but that's off topic, as they were not medicated for fevers, only for discomfort.