The Role Of Fever Part II ( A Philosophical Discussion)

Hello, I'm Dr. Pat Selimo of Selimo Chiropractic located in the Parsippany area. As was mentioned in a previous blog, there are two types of fevers. Harmful and beneficial. And, as we learned in part I, the harmful fever is of the type that the body doesn't want or need.
The harmful fever was due to a dysfunction of the fever-regulating mechanism. When the interference was removed the body began to work better and normalized the temperature almost immediately.
The second example is a beneficial fever. The child may not have even needed an adjustment, or, if he or she did need to be adjusted, it did not affect the fever. In this case, the fever runs its course, the little one is perhaps uncomfortable for a while but eventually when the innate intelligence of the body has used the fever to serve its purpose, it will reduce it. I have seen this type of fever at my office, Selimo Chiropractic located in the Parsippany area, a few times.
There is a third situation which isn't seen too often. This is the small child who is brought in with no particular symptoms and shortly after an adjustment the child begins to manifest symptoms of being a little sick tyke. The fever regulating mechanism was not working properly, only in this case, that malfunction manifested itself as a lack of fever when one is needed rather than a high fever when one is not called for.
The difficulty is in the parent attempting to determine a beneficial fever from a harmful one. Fever is a symptom. All symptoms are either a manifestation that the body is adapting (the innate intelligence of the body expressing itself with the beneficial fever) or that the body is failing to adapt do to limitations of time and matter (the harmful fever). We know that the innate intelligence will not elevate the temperature to a point that would be harmful. That would not be intelligent. But what temperature is "too high"?
You will have to wait for the conclusion of this three part article to find out the "SECRET".
Caio until next time.