I am keen for parents (and doctors!) to know how to support a physiological fever and to stamp out fever phobia - teach parents to check for a dangerous underlying infection rather than checking temperatures.
http://www.everydaymedicine.com/fever.htm
Havinga W. Giving paracetamol is unnecessary. BMJ 1997;314:discussion 1692-3
Havinga W. Time to counter...
i am 54 i have been suffering with depression for years at the age of eight i was paralyzed with a childhood sickness rheumatic fever. i don't remember how long in the hospital but from the age of eight until i was fifteen i received penicillin shots each month in the upper arms and also i suffer with weight problems. My arms hurt feel tired and weak...
The African mango, or irvingia gabonensis, is an edible fruit growing in the tropical rainforests of western Cameroon, and has been eaten locally as a food for hundreds of years. But it is the seeds or nuts of the fruit that are most highly prized for their medicinal properties, and are used to treat everything from yellow fever to diarrhea, and by hunters to give them increased energy and...
"Dr. Neil Kao's Allergy and Asthma Website" This website contains information I have found to improve the care of patients with allergic diseases, such as allergic rhinitis (hay fever), chronic sinusitis (sinus infections), asthma, atopic dermatitis (allergic eczema), urticaria (hives) and angioedema, food allergies, allergic reactions to insect stings, and anaphylaxis (life...
From Oslo, Norway, born in 1972. Profound hearing loss at the age of 1, probably due to ototoxic medicine or scarlac fever.
Now waits for CI-operation running on the third year. Write about the Norwegian health-system, myself and my mental and physical status during the long wait.
Expected to be operated in 2009.
I survived Dengue Fever twice.
All you can do is making sure you don't get bitten by the aedes mosquito.
You can read how on my website but basically:
* these mosquitoes attack from 17.00h to 09.00 and
* mosquitoes can't get through mosquito nets.
Forgetful Girl is in her early 20s, living with post-viral CFS in the UK. She first became ill with Glandular Fever in 2007, but was diagnosed in early 2009. It's a misunderstood condition, but one that changes your outlook on life. Forgetful Girl finds having a positive frame of mind really helps. Although fatigue is one of the major symptoms for her, she also has to contend with a really,...
I am 58 and grew up in the 50's before eating lead paint was a bad thing. We also used to break glass thermomoters to play with that cool mercury inside. Who knew? I had about every disease available except polio. like measles, mumps (real bad) Reumatic fever, etc. At sevral points I was put in cold water or ice to control a 106 temperature. I had an appendectomy at age 5 in 1956, and they tell...
I have had epilepsy almost my whole life. First from a high fever-febrile seizure. About a year later, came back hard...now back in the 70's fewer options, especially small town in MI. So Phenobarbital was the answer. My whole childhood had atypical absence seizures-felt them coming on. They took a brief turn in my teens (hormones) And with stress after I got married 1st time-they started to...
