When you give a fever reducer to your child, you're not allowing their body to do its job. They start feeling a little better so they begin running around and playing. Which, as a mother, we do like to see. However, it is better to keep their body at rest so that it can reserve its energy for fighting the infection.
I think it's better to push water (sweet drinks are an enemy to the immune system) and have them REST.
Now obviously, I'm no doctor. I'm just a mother of four who has taken her kids to the doctor countless times only to be told "It's just a virus. It will pass." But, I have noticed in my girls (ages 10 and 8) that they almost NEVER get sick anymore. Not since they were about 5 or 6. And when they do get whatever is being passed around, they recover MUCH faster than everyone else. Why? It could be because I breastfed them each for a year and a half. It could be because I never give them antibiotics. It could be because I allow their immune systems to fight off infections as they come so that they can build up immunities to infections. But I think it's a combination of all of those.
So even though Logan and Mason were burning up last night, and I started to second guess myself, I'm glad I stuck it out. Mason's fever broke this morning and Logan's this afternoon! And as hard as it was to watch them suffer, I know in the long run, they will be healthier for it. But that's just my two cents! XoXo
