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Can You Have a Fever That's Too High?
Caue: Can you have a fever that's too high? No. So we give them parasetamal or ibopophin for the distress, not the fever. There's absolutely no evidence that you can prevent what we call a febrile seizure by repeatedly giving parasetum oll or ibopophen. Lots of studies have tried to do it, and it doesn't work. Tswhat's causing those convulsions? If it's not the fever, actually, we don't really know it. It's when the fever suddenly changes or comes on. And i think it's that change that causes this little scrambling in the brain. Nine times out of ten
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