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Parenting: Fever is Your Friend

[Guest Author] This guest post on fever is your friend is the twenty-second in a series by a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with because of uncannily similar ideas, opinions and experiences… including having a penchant for medical blogging. His URL is up for sale, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants them back.

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Treating Fever in Infants, Children and Teens

If other pediatricians are like I am, one of the most common topics they discuss on the phone is fever.

Callers sometimes simply state, “My baby has a fever” or “John has a fever of 103” or “Sally has a fever again; she needs some antibiotics,” – as if fever were the disease.
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