Fever Lesson 8 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 A fever is your body turning up its own heating to help fight an infection; normal is about 36.5 to 37.5 degrees. 2 The fever is not the illness, it is the body fighting; medicine like paracetamol lowers it for a few hours but doesn't kill the germ, so it comes back until you've won. 3 Don't bundle up under blankets to sweat it out: light clothes, a cool room and plenty to drink are best. 4 A rash of tiny spots that doesn't fade when you press a glass on it, or a child who is floppy and very sleepy, is an emergency. 5 A fever is when the body raises its temperature to fight infection; normal body temperature is about 36.5 to 37.5 degrees Celsius. 7 Bundling a feverish child in blankets can make them overheat; light clothes and a cool room are better, and cold baths are not advised either. 8 With a fever the body loses water by sweating and fast breathing; not drinking is more worrying than not eating, so doctors ask about drinking and weeing to check the body has enough water. 9 At home children's temperature is measured with a digital thermometer in the armpit or ear; a hand on the forehead is not reliable. 10 A high temperature can make vivid dreams and odd feelings that go when the fever drops. 11 Febrile seizures, or fever fits, are fits caused by a rising fever in children aged about 6 months to 5 years; they are scary but almost always harmless and don't mean epilepsy, an illness of repeated fits. 12 Fever medicines lower the temperature for a few hours but don't kill the infection, so the fever can come back. 13 A rash that doesn't fade under a pressed glass, with fever, can mean meningitis or sepsis, very dangerous infections, and needs 999 or A&E straight away. 14 Children usually stay off school until the fever has gone without medicine hiding it. 15 Paracetamol and ibuprofen are both safe for most children at the right dose; aspirin is not given to children under 16. ← previous Colds and flunext → Sore throats, ears and eyes↑ back to Medicine This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/