![]() ![]() ![]() Best done by taking long steamy showers on a regular basis. Gatorade is much cheaper, pain free, and comes in an assortment of flavorsģ. If you don’t do this and end up in the hospital, they will start an IV and give you D5W (sugar water) and Normal Saline to replenish electrolytes. The electrolytes and fluid you are losing will also be replenished by the Gatorade. Why the sugar? Sugar will give your body back the energy it is using up to create the fever. Gatorade with real sugar, or Pedialyte with real sugar for kids, works well. The body is going to dehydrate with the elevated temperature so you must rehydrate yourself regularly, whether you like it or not. ![]() It usually takes about 3 days of this to break the fever.Ģ. It helps to keep house warm and cover up with blankets, so body does not have to work so hard to generate the heat. If it gets higher than that take your Tylenol, not ibuprofen or Advil to keep it regulated. Use common sense and don’t let fever go over 103 or 104 if you got the guts. They are saying that ibuprofen, Advil etc. will bring your fever down allowing the virus to live longer. Only high temperatures kill a virus, so let your fever run high. ![]()
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