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Fever is good

To sell Tylenol/Crocin/Paracetamol  we were brain washed with TV ads telling all how doctors used it in hospitals for fever most commonly. These ads ran for  decades in the 70's, 80's and some in the 90's. They were very effective, both for the lay public and nurses and doctors. I tried over many years to break the automatic Tylenol for fever habit but it was too ingrained in all health care providers. Nobody gave it any thought. If they had it would have been natural to question how a mechanism present throughout the human and animal kingdoms was anything but not protective. If they had given it thought it would be easy to believe that fever was good. That is how holistic practitioners think. Scientists want proof. Nurses and doctors are supposed to be scientific . Well proof is evident in the whole animal kingdom as shown in multiple elegant experiments. In humans and animals everything that fights infection works better when our temperature goes up. Fever is