Search string: “what to do for high fever”
Google suggests:
- Take paracetamol or ibuprofen in appropriate doses to help bring your temperature down.
- Drink plenty of fluids, particularly water.
- Avoid alcohol, tea and coffee as these drinks can cause slight dehydration.
- Sponge exposed skin with tepid water. To boost the cooling effect of evaporation, you could try standing in front of a fan.
- Avoid taking cold baths or showers. Skin reacts to the cold by constricting its blood vessels, which will trap body heat. The cold may also cause shivering, which can generate more heat.
- Make sure you have plenty of rest, including bed rest.
This is surmountable. This will not be the cause of your death, no matter what you think, or no matter how much you want it to be. This is not nearly enough to break you.
You are not the first person in the world to suffer through a sickness alone, nor will you be the last. This is not the first fever you have ever had, nor will it be the last.
You are melodramatic because you are not used to weakness. You are morose because you are physically challenged, and you have never liked that feeling. Also, you have always liked that word, and use it every chance you get.
Morose.
You’re scared because it hurts, and pain is a slippery slope, an invitation to stumble.
But this is surmountable.
You know what to do.