Thanks for the info, here's a couple of responses (sorry if I lost the
accreditation).
I also found a bit of a review on the polio Abs and fever:
Trends in microbiol. vol2(7) p255 July 1994
But nothing on the effect of fever and recovery of chickenpox....
I KNOW I saw it somewhere! :-)
Cheers,
Chris
In Article <Bernstein.30.0017ED77 at WSU-ID.Dayton.OH.US>,
Bernstein at WSU-ID.Dayton.OH.US (Jack M. Bernstein, M.D.) wrote:
>>The comment re: aspirin is correct. Otherwise, there is really no adverse
>event from fever reducing medications. The usual caveat is to use the meds
>only when the patient is uncomfortable. Thus, tylenol for a fever of 38C may
>not be needed or appropriate.
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Perhaps you are thinking about Reye's syndrome. This is a poorly understood
condition characterised by fatty infiltration of the liver and cerebral
oedema. Epidemiologically it has been linked to the use of aspirin in
chicken pox, but the exact nature of this link remains (to the best of my
knowledge anyway) mysterious.
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You might look at Delaet, I. and Boeye, A., J. Virol 67(9):5299-5312 (1993).
They showed that some monoclonal Ab neutralizes polio only at elevated temp.
A citation search might find more recent refs.
Good luck,
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