If you have a fever i understand it is your body fighting a virus or for other reasons, but if it is a virus is it best to let your body raise your temperature to make a hostile environment for virus or take paracetamol to lower temperature.confused.

The basics: Fever elevation during an infection is the bodies way of increasing metabolism, with increased heart rate/blood flow to bring immune elements around to the site of the infection. Low grade fever can be ignored as a helpful event. If it rises to the point you cannot keep up with your fluid & nutrition needs fever meds are a reasonable adjunct to comfort care.