A number of clinical studies reveal that taking antipyretics rather reduces body's ability to recover from illness. This article discusses this groundbreaking concept based on the available clinical data. Generally, people are fever-phobic and fever is considered as an illness. Hence, by taking antipyretics people try to normalize the temperatures which they are normally comfortable with. Fever increases the basic metabolic rate, hear and respiration rate.
By taking antipyretics people try to reduce their raised temperature to prevent brain damage, to prevent febrile seizures etc. On the contrary, even antipyretics do not prevent the febrile seizures or brain damage. Literature says that fevers are not that bad after all! Human beings being endotherm in nature, in order to increase the body temperature, the immune system releases cytokines that activate hypothalamus and reset the body…
