[M.D. Holloway]

Provided the child isn't running a 104+ temp, why would you want to brake that fever? Isn't a fever the bodies natural defese against an infection? I seemed to have remebered studying something in micobiology that when the body heats up it is trying to snap the virus then establish an activated antigen from the genetic information obtained. That info is than used to establish immunity to the next virus that comes down the pike with the same DNA.

If a kid runs a fever and you keep then quite and well hydrated, aren't you allowing their body to understand how to fight infection and you also allow then to deal with discomfort?

I say this because we never gave our some any pain meds when he had a cold or even ran a fever. He rarely if ever got sick and his a high tolerence for discomfort. Our daughter is the opposit. We medicate her with childrens motrin and she is a big wuss when it comes to pain - she also seems to get sick 20X more than him.

So by wanting to provide more comfort to her, we infact have allowed her to get sick more often?