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It has been difficult to design studies looking at the impact of fever control on outcome, in part because traditional methods of fever control are ineffective.
We aim to provide a documented background about parents' practices in the management of fever in their children, with the intention that this provides the basis for a large, comprehensive future study aimed at educating parents about the best methods of fever management and accurate dosing and using antipyretics.
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Thus, contrary to previous studies, touch as a method of fever detection will lead to mothers missing out several cases of fever in their children.
Choose which method of fever reduction is right for your child.
To our opinion this increased duration of local adverse events will not be a reason to renounce the new cost-effective method of yellow fever vaccination investigated, as they were not experienced as more severely than the adverse events in the s.c. group.
In view of its suboptimal specificity, the usefulness of this method of assessing fever has remained limited to that of a screening tool.
However, it could be decreased by implementation of a method of yellow fever detection (Bioplex Technology; BioRad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA), which is now in progress at IPB.
Jalil et al. [ 1] stated that measuring the temperature is obviously the most accurate method of detecting fever but these authors found that only one third of mothers actually measured the child's temperature at home to detect fever.
5 6 An appropriate method of detection of fever has an impact on parental decisions to take their child for evaluation.
Although temperature monitoring remains the primary method of detecting onset of fever and enabling follow-up of contacts during the incubation period (6), appropriateness of once a day vs. twice a day monitoring is a disputed issue.
In both surveys most of paediatricians recommended the use of physical methods if fever persisted over time (65.0%; 315/480 vs. 51.0%; 153/300; P < 0.001).
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