A new poll from Michigan Medicine has found that about one-third of parents administer fever-reducing medicines to their children when they may not be necessary.
The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health surveyed 1,376 parents of children aged 12 and under between August and September 2022 about their actions and decisions when their child may have a fever.
It has a margin of error for results of plus or minus 1 to 3 percentage points and higher among subgroups.
It found that 35 percent of those surveyed said they would give fever-reducing medication for temperatures below 100.4. degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), and 50 percent would administer it to children who have a fever between 100.4 F and 101.9 F (38 C and 38.83 C)….