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IF A BABY HAS A FEVER,TREATMENT ALL DEPENDS
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/49b610ea-28d6-44d3-9838-85f7f7c6f270/8E99CA15-D92D-46E0-81C7-186097F59E62/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/18feve.html?em" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/18feve.html?em" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/18feve.html?em"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> If a Baby Has a Fever, Treatment All Depends </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/18feve.html?em"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/B034F198-C220-449B-9C70-FB21AA671D19" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/18feve.html?em"><P> The baby didn’t look sick, as he lay in his mother’s arms and looked around the room at the clinic. He wasn’t screaming inconsolably, wasn’t limp and listless. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/18feve.html?em"><P>But his mother had told the nurse that he seemed fussy and wasn’t nursing quite as vigorously as usual. And he felt warm to the touch. So the nurse took his temperature: 100.4, less than two degrees above normal. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/18feve.html?em"><P>Pediatricians often need to reassure parents when their toddler or preschooler has a high <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Fever." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/fever/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">fever</A>. Yes, we say, your daughter has a temperature of 103, but she looks good; it’s probably just a virus. No need for <A title="Recent and archival health news about antibiotics." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/antibiotics/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">antibiotics</A>, no need for anything except liquids and an over-the-counter medicine like acetaminophen or ibuprofen. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/18feve.html?em"><P>Yet in this robust baby boy, not quite 2 months old, 100.4 was reason for worry. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/18feve.html?em"><P>Did his temperature really constitute a fever? As it happened, it fell on the cutoff for “real” fever — 38 degrees Celsius, or 100.4 Fahrenheit.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8E99CA15-D92D-46E0-81C7-186097F59E62/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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