You’re right, it depends on how long the fever lasts.
Most of the time it is a virus and viruses usually are self limiting r/t the bodies immune response.
If a fever lasts more than two or three days, go to your doctor or urgent care center.
And please, don’t bundle up your babies when they have a fever. That only makes the temperature higher.
That goes for children and adults too.
I came down with what could only have been Wuhan Flu, in February of ‘20 and suffered most of the usual symptoms, I hadn’t caught the flu in almost 20 years iirc. It started out, one day I realized, I must be running a fever. After digging around a while I found a few old school thermometers. I shook it down, stuck ‘er under my tongue and waited a couple minutes. 104.5 Well that can’t be right ! Figured it must be defective.
I was hesitant to go to the hospital. One, that’s where people went to die at that point in time. I didn’t want nothin’ to do with no hospital. What can they do to bring fever down that I can’t do?
I did wonder if I was going to die, I knew it was a high temperature - and worse, it didn’t act the way a regular course of flu seemed to in the past. I figured 2 to 3 days, it would break over night and I would feel better. It was persistent.
At that time there was considerable question about whether Aspirin or Tylenol or fever reducers were best. The information coming out of China was to avoid Tylenol or Ibuprofen if I recall, so I used a regimine of Aspirin. There were also numerous reports that former tobacco users were showing a very high mortality rate if they caught it. So I decided to keep smoking! LOL
SCOTTY BEAM ME UP IT AIN’T FUNNY ANY MORE