A member asked:

How healthy is it to give your 4 & 5 yr old 5 different med. to help with the fever that they just have a virus?

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Reply: Overuse of any medicine is not beneficial and can be rather harmful. Fever is a physiologic response of the immune system to the offending agents it could be viral, bacterial or anything. Knowing the fever by checking with a thermometer and doing supportive measures like more fluid intake, tap water sponging for high fever can help instead to giving med back to back.

Answered 12/10/2013

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