ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
Understanding Discomfort in Order to Appropriately Treat Fever.
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- Effectiveness and safety of interventions for fever-associated discomfort in children: A systematic review.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2025Pooled it
- Paediatric fever management practices and antipyretic use among doctors and nurses in New Zealand emergency departments.Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA · 2022Trial
- Defining fever-related discomfort in children: an international Delphi consensus.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Assessment and Management of Pain and Fever in Pediatric Patients in the Emergency Setting: A Proposed Flowchart for the Triage Nurse.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Discursive Analysis of Pediatrician's Therapeutic Approach towards Childhood Fever and Its Contextual Differences: An Ethnomethodological Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Determinants of caregiver's knowledge and practices regarding childhood fever management in a developing setting: a multi-centre cross-sectional assessment.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Discomfort relief after paracetamol administration in febrile children admitted to a third level paediatric emergency department.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Warming up for a better fever: a randomized pilot study in pediatric oncology.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Article
- Management of acute fever in children: Consensus recommendations for community and primary healthcare providers in sub-Saharan Africa.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2021Review
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Abstract
Although national and international guidelines on the management of childhood and adolescent fever are available, some inadequate practices persist, both from parents and healthcare professionals. The main goal of bringing children's temperature back to normal can lead to the choice of inappropriate drugs or non-necessary combination/alternation of antipyretic treatments. This behavior has been described in the last 35 years with the concept of fever-phobia, caused also by the dissemination of unscientific information and social media. It is therefore increasingly important that pediatricians continue to provide adequate information to parents in order to assess the onset of signs of a possible condition of the child's discomfort rather than focusing only on temperature. In fact, there is no clear and unambiguous definition of discomfort in literature. Clarifying the extent of the feverish child's discomfort and the tools that could be used to evaluate it would therefore help recommend that antipyretic treatment is appropriate only if fever is associated with discomfort.
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