You know, just this morning, I was talking with two of my co-workers who had sick children. Viral. So the doctors did not give them antibiotics. But they had still had high fevers the next day and both parents called the doctors to try and get antibiotics. One said okay, and one didn't. Now, I don't know much about medicine, but antibiotics don't work against viruses - so how can they help for the fever?
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.
There are anti viral medications, but I'm not too sure how they work as my studies in microbiology dealt with bacterial infections, but I do know that fevers left untreated in children (well anyone really) is extremely dangerous.
