The evidence behind treating fever in children

  • Antipyretics don’t appear to lengthen duration of fever in ill children
  • Antipyretics an be combined for effect, but to what end?
  • Antipyretics don’t appear to decrease risk of febrile seizure recurrence
  • Fever:  Not your enemy!

 

EMKF

Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation (EMKF) is a not-for-profit (NGO) public benefit organisation registered in Kenya