~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This message is from PedTalk! To reply to the group, use "" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 04:51 PM 10/19/97 -0400, wrote: >I did not say nor did I mean to imply that children should be made or allowed >to suffer. If the child is not feeling miserable there is no reason to treat >the fever of even measure the temperature. I have had emergency room nurses >tell my parents to wake the child every two hours to measure the temperature. >That is the sort of mindset against which we must struggle. > >Dan Nussbaum > > Dan, I did not mean to imply in my post that you or anyone else would allow a child to suffer in the name of fever phobia (but when I re-read my post after sending it I realized that it could have come across that way - sorry). It seemed at the time that a lot of the posts on treating fever were not differentiating between treating fever and treating misery, and I chose your post as a starting point to make sure we were all distinguishing the two. Subsequent posts by others have certainly continued in this vein. Now, in the name of limiting posts to the list, I won't add further to this string :) Michael Sachs, M.D. General Pediatrician