"fever phobia"

[The Straight Story]

For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics has released guidelines for parents and health care professionals on how to deal with fevers in children.

It says that if you give your child Advil or Tylenol for a one hundred degree Temperature, then you have "fever phobia."

That's because mild fevers are not harmful and don't need to be treated aggressively.

Fever is common symptom in children. But a fever helps the body fight infection and should be treated to improve a child's level of body temperature.

This advice does not apply to children with certain chronic conditions or to children under three months of age -- who should be taken to the doctor if they have a fever.

http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2120084&spid=

[Cirque du So-What]

1. For the first time ever?

Incredible, considering that I was advised against administering any medication to a child running a low-grade fever nearly 35 years ago. Ya don't think Big Pharma had a hand in the indiscriminate dosing of children with such medications, do ya?

:sarcasm:

[enlightenment]

2. No kidding - I distinctly recall my pediatrician telling me that

31 years ago - not that I needed to hear it from her, because my mother and grandmother told me the same thing.

We were a bunch of rebels, obviously.