Symptoms can be tricky things right? After all, when you go to the doctor, you usually begin by telling him or her what it is that’s bothering you… you give them a run-down of the symptoms you’re feeling. You may say that your throat is sore, or that you have a headache, or you have night sweats.
But what if the symptom is the solution??
Often times we hear parents talking about how their child has a fever. They rush to the medicine cabinet and get the tylenol or ibuprophen so that can “get that fever under control”.
But think about it for a minute… why do they have that fever?
Fever is the body’s way of changing the internal environment. That’s right, when the body encounters an infection inside of you, it will raise your temperature because it knows that germs and infections can’t stand the heat. So your body increases its metabolism and raises your temperature so that it can literally cook the infection out of your system. What happens if you give your child (or yourself for that matter) a drug to lower your temperature?
Instead of the body being able to kill the infection, the fever is artifically reduced and the infection is allowed to live and go on creating problems in the body for extended periods of time.
This time, instead of trying to reduce the fever, take a moment and think about the inate intelligence of the body – the human species has been perfecting the art of dealing with infection and disease naturally for thousands of years… all without drugs!!
Listen to your body. If you or your child run a fever, take some time off and rest, stay hydrated, and let your body do exactly what it NEEDS to do. You’ll find that you will get healthy and stay healthier faster when you just listen to your inate.
In Health,
Dr. Ross
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