Fever is a friend

For otherwise healthy adults, your immune system works better at higher temperatures.

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’s changing temperature limits the ability of viruses and bacteria to thrive because they require a stable temperature to survive.

Fever is your friend
Celsius version
Fever is your friend
Fahrenheit version

Graphics credit: Liz Gould