Yacob Mathai
Marma Health Centre, kaloor, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Title: The definition, diagnosis and treatment of fever are against modern science in the world today! Why?
Biography
Biography: Yacob Mathai
Abstract
There is no uniform definition, test, or treatment for fever alone. Today, the diagnosis and treatment of fever are similar to the diagnosis and treatment of its opposite, destructive hyperthermia.The essence of today's fever treatment is fever can be cured by using fever-creating substances.
Medical text books state that “Our understanding of the neural basis of thermoregulation and fever is still rudimentry. The role of fever in the defence reaction is not clear 1, ‘fever’, and ‘hyperthermia’, they are not yet universally defined. and there is no agreed definition of fever2. Researchers found, even a single dose of paracetamol can reduce the body`s levels of glutathione3. It will increases inflammation . So `paracetamol may cause Fever, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia1, Paracetamol , a familiar drug with an unexplained mechanism of action4. Use of antipyretics might prolong infection, and that in severe infection the use of antipyretics might increase mortality5.
The current diagnosis, and treatment of fever are based on the belief that a fever temperature between 100.4oF to 107oF is harmful to the brain and body.