{"id":60,"date":"2024-01-04T03:59:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T03:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartbeate.com\/now\/?p=60"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:31:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T09:31:41","slug":"fever-is-our-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartbeate.com\/now\/fever-is-our-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever is a friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For otherwise healthy adults, your immune system works better at higher temperatures. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Reducing a fever by taking paracetamol or ibuprophen or other medications to reduce symptoms can slow down recovery and lower the desired immune response the fever is designed to produce. The body&#8217;s changing temperature limits the ability of viruses and bacteria to thrive because they require a stable temperature to survive.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartbeate.com\/annual\/2022\/The_heartbeat_network-resources-2022-03-04-Fever-liz-gould.png\" alt=\"Fever is your friend\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celsius version<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartbeate.com\/annual\/2022\/The_heartbeat_network-resources-2022-03-04-Fever-US-liz-gould.png\" alt=\"Fever is your friend\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fahrenheit version<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Graphics credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selkievisuals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liz Gould<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For otherwise healthy adults, your immune system works better at higher temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heartbeate.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heartbeate.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heartbeate.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heartbeate.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heartbeate.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/heartbeate.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"http:\/\/heartbeate.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heartbeate.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heartbeate.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heartbeate.com\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}