No cure so you gotta rest. Nose is stuffed so you gotta mouth breathe. Throat is dry from mouth breathing. Dry throat makes it painful to swallow. Pain keeps you from sleeping and recovering. Lack of sleep leads to worse symptoms like piercing headaches. Need to rest to get rid of the headaches. Headache and swallowing is too painful to rest properly. Lack of rest perpetuates headaches, nose congestion, dry throat, painful swallowing.
What is this BS
On a human level it should just make sense, don’t treat things that don’t need to be treated. If your fever is getting dangerously high, or if it’s preventing you from sleep and you got to work in the morning, use your medicine. But it shouldn’t be the first thing people go for. I have a mild headache I’m going to take some medicine, I have a slight fever I’m going to take some medicine, I have a sniffly nose I’m going to take some medicine. That’s not indicated.
They’re very few panaceas in this world, all medicines have trade-offs.
The quote suggests the study was suggestive of the conclusion but inadequate to reasonably confirm it.
Sure, one thing you will find in all paper is that further studies are warranted. I was just illustrating to our dear friend above that their quackery statement wasn’t being civil.
Person 1: “don’t treat fevers, doing so prolongs the illness itself”
Person 2: “there’s no evidence of that, it’s quackery”
Person 1: “here’s a study that says there’s no evidence that it’s false, either.”
Person 2 was probably being somewhat rude, but also wasn’t wrong in the substance of the actual comment.
I’m of the camp that treating a fever makes me feel better, and it isn’t shown to prolong or worsen illness.