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Review
. 2000 Oct:31 Suppl 5:S185-9.
doi: 10.1086/317511.

Physiological rationale for suppression of fever

P A Mackowiak  1
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Review

Physiological rationale for suppression of fever

P A Mackowiak. Clin Infect Dis. 2000 Oct.

Abstract

Two critical assumptions are made when prescribing antipyretic therapy. One is that fever is, at least in part, noxious, and the other is that suppression of fever will reduce, if not eliminate, the noxious effects of fever. At present, neither assumption has been validated experimentally.

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