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I've had a low grade fever for 4 days i'm on antibiotics but it still isn't going away. what do i do?

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Dr. Tony Ho answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Depends: This greatly depends on how high a "low grade" fever is, if the fever has been getting better at all, and what infection are the antibiotics treating?

Answered 11/11/2016

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