Fever is a very unpleasant experience. Due to increased body temperature, the body feels uncomfortable, head ache, chills, no appetite to eat, sleep soundly, restless because it feels all wrong body position, brought even worse watching tv, chatting brought no change. If you want to write in all the time suffering a fever, the list will be long.
All of us will agree, very uncomfortable symptoms should immediately disappear from the body. The trick? Should be lowered body temperature.
To lower body temperature, we can eat a hot-lowering drugs are sold freely. Many kinds, there are paracetamol, ibuprofen, and was available as a combination with cough medicine, cold medicine, or the caffeine that makes the body feel fresh.
Normally, after eating antipyretic medication, the fever will go down. But the unfinished war comrade, the cause of fever must be found, otherwise, antipyretic effects disappear after the body will re-fever.
Fever culprit of many kinds. Most often it is the location of the infection and the infection can be anywhere in the body. If the cause is bacterial or parasitic infections, antibiotic medicine. If the cause is viral, cure strengthen the immune system. Antiviral drugs actually exist, but only for certain viruses such as chicken pox virus (acyclovir) and influenza virus (oseltamivir, which was later used also for bird flu).
Dehydration can also cause fever. To overcome this, adequate fluid administration to cope with the symptoms of fever. There's also another cause, such as collagen diseases (lupus Eritomatosus), cancer, and metabolic (hyperthyroidism), but the number of events rarely.
Well sometimes stubborn fever. Febrifuge was given, fever just down briefly and then go up again. Should not take the risk to take antipyretic drugs more frequently than recommended. Typically, medications taken heat hose 8 hours. Paracetamol for example, affect the liver damage if consumed in excess.
So what to do? Compress. Compress even less practical than medicine, but almost no side effects. The question is, what use compress?
Logically, body heat must be cooled. To cool it would have been with something cold, such as cold water or ice water. Thus, our fathers first, if the water is always cold compress or ice water. This habit also briefly embraced by the medical world.
Later it was discovered, that the body is not just resigned to accept the increase in body temperature. It turns out in one part of our brain (the hypothalamus) are temperature control center (termoregulator). Well, if the body temperature increases, the temperature control center tried to lower it. And vice versa.
That is why, fever is compressed with cold water or ice compresses when the fever will be terminated. Because when a cold compress or ice water, temperature control center receives a signal that the ambient temperature being cold, and the body must be in the warm. So counter to that expected.
Another case when the warm water compress. Center will receive the information that the temperature around the temperature being warm, immediately lower. This is the expected effect. Fortunately again, when fever feel cold even though we did our body heat. Warm compresses help relieve cold and make the body more comfortable.
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