“Temperature is not pain, but a number on a thermometer. Only pain is pain! If, in addition to coughing and a runny nose, you have a sore throat, head, aching muscles / joints, then what difference does it make to you what the thermometer shows there? That’s right: no difference! “
The doctor assures: you do not need to suffer with a temperature of up to 38 degrees.
“Such non-martyrs are not taken to paradise,” the doctor jokes.
At the same time, according to the doctor, the duration of the disease does not depend in any way on whether the patient took an antipyretic or endured it steadily, relying on his body.
“The disease will not progress neither worse, nor longer, nor faster. But, most likely, it is better and more pleasant, – says Nikita Zhukov. – Therefore, if you open sane reference books, then there will be no instructions to wait for a certain number on the thermometer. or stoically endure, or even wait for instructions from above. Poor drink paracetamol / ibuprofen.
A thermometer should be used on children (I don’t understand what he says, let me measure the temperature!) And just to control fever, but not as a criterion for “it’s time to ease the condition or not yet.”