>>14385538above 40° is possible if you have febrile tendencies. I've had >40° in particularly bad flu seasons a few times.
Still, you should get a better, aurical thermometer if yours has an error of 2°.
>>143855921. You are not an ICU patient, and you do not have sepsis.
2. the patients in the study did by and large not have high fever (they count 37.2° as fever for some reason).
As I stated in my post, fever that is not too high usually doesn't require treatment.
3. regarding high fever, the linked paper writes:
>The FACE (Fever and Antipyretic in Critically Ill Patients Evaluation) investigators found that septic patients with a temperature above 39.5°C exhibited a downward trend in 28-day mortality [22]. >However, newest reserch suggests that untreated feved results in fewer deaths.The study does not associate antipyretic treatment with worse outcomes in a statisticially significant way, it merely finds no improvement:
>We did not find any significant difference in the proportion of patients receiving antipyretic medication between survivors and nonsurvivors (7.9% versus 7.4%, p = 0.49). >>14385606Feel free to live like its 1700 and die of dysentery at 36, but stop pretending science backs you up.