--- title: Fever — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Fever», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A fever is your body turning up its own heating to help fight an infection; normal is about 36.5 to 37.5 degrees. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / Fever # Fever Lesson 8 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/8-fever/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/0/) — A fever is your body turning up its own heating to help fight an infection; normal is about 36.5 to 37.5 degrees. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/2/) — The fever is not the illness, it is the body fighting; medicine like paracetamol lowers it for a few hours but doesn't kill the germ, so it comes back until you've won. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/3/) — Don't bundle up under blankets to sweat it out: light clothes, a cool room and plenty to drink are best. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/4/) — A rash of tiny spots that doesn't fade when you press a glass on it, or a child who is floppy and very sleepy, is an emergency. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/5/) — A fever is when the body raises its temperature to fight infection; normal body temperature is about 36.5 to 37.5 degrees Celsius. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/7/) — Bundling a feverish child in blankets can make them overheat; light clothes and a cool room are better, and cold baths are not advised either. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/8/) — With a fever the body loses water by sweating and fast breathing; not drinking is more worrying than not eating, so doctors ask about drinking and weeing to check the body has enough water. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/9/) — At home children's temperature is measured with a digital thermometer in the armpit or ear; a hand on the forehead is not reliable. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/10/) — A high temperature can make vivid dreams and odd feelings that go when the fever drops. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/11/) — Febrile seizures, or fever fits, are fits caused by a rising fever in children aged about 6 months to 5 years; they are scary but almost always harmless and don't mean epilepsy, an illness of repeated fits. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/12/) — Fever medicines lower the temperature for a few hours but don't kill the infection, so the fever can come back. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/13/) — A rash that doesn't fade under a pressed glass, with fever, can mean meningitis or sepsis, very dangerous infections, and needs 999 or A&E straight away. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/14/) — Children usually stay off school until the fever has gone without medicine hiding it. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/8-fever/15/) — Paracetamol and ibuprofen are both safe for most children at the right dose; aspirin is not given to children under 16. - ← previous: [Colds and flu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/) - next →: [Sore throats, ears and eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)