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HSE Newsletter - Issue 44 - Fever in children
Fever is defined as a rise in body tem-perature above the normal range. Because of the normal variation in body temperature, there is no single value that is defined as fever. How-ever, as a general rule, in children a temperature above 37.5 °C (99.5 F) is re-garded as fe-ver. Open HSE Newsletter to read more...
Most of the fevers are caused by viral infec-tion, which is self-limiting and needs sympto-matic treatment only. In contrast, antibiotics play a major role in treating bacterial fever.

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