Every year at this time flu begins to appear in health news in Spain. This year, for example, virus It started particularly early and virulently reached many provinces in epidemic situations. THE fever generally high … be the main indicator of this very popular disease.
Whether due to the flu or other factors, this increase in temperature It is nothing more than the body’s response to infections, inflammation or other factors such as stress or autoimmune diseases. In addition, it usually disappears on its own, even if there are drugs which help to better overcome the symptoms and relieve them. Regardless, as with medical topics, many hoaxes often appear.
THE pharmaceutical Uxoa Olaizola I wanted to talk about the story of TikTok of the Basque pharmacy where he works (@olaiz_f) a video to talk about it specifically. “It is very common to reduce a fever as soon as it appears… but it is a natural response of our body,” she comments in the publication which already has more than 35,000 views.
“The problem: we use antipyretics”
“Reducing fever can make healing take longer,” explains Uxoa, who adds that “fever is not your enemyit’s defense, it’s a signal, it’s evolutionary engineering. So, she points out, it’s normal to want to bring it down “but the fever is not there by mistake” and it works as a strategy of the immune system “to give you an advantage against a pathogen.”
Thus, she explains that fever “is a regulated increase in temperature, not a lack of control” and that the hypothalamus is responsible for “adjusting the ‘set point’ to a higher temperature to boost your immunity.” “At 38 or 39 degrees, defensive cells work better“, she says, specifying that neutrophils and lymphocytes “work faster, phagocytose more, are more activated, produce more interferons”.
@olaiz_f It is very common to reduce a fever as soon as it appears… but it is a natural response of our body 🔥. This is not a mistake: it is an evolutionary strategy aimed at giving us an advantage against a pathogen. Fever is a regulated increase in temperature. The hypothalamus raises the set point for the immune system to function better: neutrophils and lymphocytes work faster, phagocytose more and produce more interferons. At the same time, many viruses and bacteria replicate less well. Heat shock proteins fine-tune antigen presentation and coordinate inflammation, making the response even more effective. In healthy people, a fever between 38 and 39.5ºC is useful and safe. From 40 ºC, physiological stress appears, and above 41-42 ºC, we speak of a real risk, more typical of hyperthermia. Discomfort, fatigue or lack of appetite are part of sickness behaviors: a biological program designed to force you to rest and speed up recovery 😴. The problem is that we live in a society that demands constant performance. And as soon as we have a few tenths, we resort to antipyretics to “work”, even if this can lengthen the process. If you must use it, accompany it with rest, hydration and immune system support with micronutrients and herbs 🌿. #fever #immune system #immunity #naturalhealth #pharmacy ♬ original sound – OLAIZ Online Pharmacy
In this scenario, “many viruses and bacteria “They breed even worse, you make it harder for them to survive.” The pharmacist adds that fever helps “lymphocytes identify which ones to attack and also coordinate the inflammatory response.” “So why all the effort to lower it?” asks the expert.
She clearly explains that the reason is that the fever varies: “between 38 and 39.5 fever is useful and safe in healthy people; After 40 years we talk about physiological stress and it must be treated and monitored; and above 41 or 42 there is a real risk of cellular damage and multiorgan failure“. Uxoa points out that it is true that fever “causes discomfort, fatigue, weakness, lack of appetite” and that the immune system knows to rest to save energy and recover.
“The problem is that we live in a society that forces us to always be at our best and as soon as we have a few tenths we use antipyretics “If you can stay in bed better, you will heal faster and if you have to resort to an antipyretic, try to compensate for this, supporting your immune system with other tools, plants, vitamins, minerals.”
The publication accumulates more than a hundred comments and among them stand out those of two Internet users who admit to not taking action in the face of the fever. “The other mothers They look at me like a “hippie” when I tell them that I stop giving antipyretics and that I just monitor so that it does not increase too much”, comments a follower, to whom Uxoa confirms that it does the same. The pharmaceutical company also promises more informative videos on this subject.
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