Parental management of childhood fever and associated factors: progress and promise
Edward Purssell · 2026
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Description
Few parenting tasks stir more worry than a child's fever, and Purssell's commentary takes stock of how parents handle it. He discusses a Brazilian study that graded care against nine national recommendations, and he uses it to weigh old habits against newer evidence. Fever itself, he notes, is a regulated rise in temperature and not harmful as such, unlike overheating.
The hard part is telling a mild illness from a serious one hiding behind the same symptom. He reviews how normal temperature ranges are set, by fixed cutoffs or by spread around the average, and why single numbers mislead. Drug treatment is left for a separate review.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Edward Purssell |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |