title: A is for aphorisms - feed a fever, starve a cold? Or could it be starve a fever, feed a cold?
abstract: The recommendations for management of fever have changed throughout the course of history, as has the very concept of fever. It has changed from something viewed as a diagnosis in its own right to a sign of something to be measured and as a trigger for a diagnostic trail to be made.
authors: MBBS, FRACGP, GradDipFM, MHS, FAICD, is Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Science and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland.
authors: Jane
authors: J
authors: Smith
mesh_terms: D005334:Fever / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D063868:Patient Outcome Assessment; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000276:immunology