Quote:
"A fever is your body's way of starving off infection whether viral or bacterial. The the last time I had a fever I was given anitbiotics because the infection was a bacterial throat infection."
I read somewhere (and I can't remember where) a theory that since fevers help to fight off infection, it's not necessary to treat a fever unless it's high enough to cause brain damage (and I think that was somewhere above 104 F). The danger exists when a fever is caused by a bacterial infection, so that is why they give antibiotics. If it's viral, the fever may help to destroy the virus. But fever-reducing medicine is OK to use when the fever is making the patient extremely uncomfortable. So I never worry about a fever, except that it is a symptom that something else is wrong. (And when my daughter is sick, her temperature seems to fluctuate like crazy.)
