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A fever is your body heating to fight a disease, why do we lower it down with paracetamol? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wikipedia says it's the opposite, with paracetamol being less well studied for antipyretic effects, but what studies there are showing little effectiveness

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh. Thanks, then I had it the wrong way. I still remeber it from school and going to the doctor as a kid. Must've swapped them.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

The scientific consensus may also have just changed since then, I'm not sure how recent most of the studies are