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DWB's avatar

What is it with the obsession against fevers? I don't mean the ones so high it can kill a person, but everything else. I was at a dinner recently with a newly retired nurse and the topic of Tylenol came up - she promotes it and takes it herself for everything, and gave it to patients for decades. Stop fevers, stop pain, stop inflammation - all with Tylenol.

I think there is a big confusion between suppressing symptoms and addressing root causes, and it leads to all sorts of subsequent problems, like preventing anything that may actually cause a fever.

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HardeeHo's avatar

And the best way to stop embedded C Diff that refuses treatment by meds - insertion of healthy poop into the patient. Disgusting mentally but the healthy person's bacterial mix puts the the C Diff swarm in it's place. We hardly understand the biology of our gut.

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