Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about whether you should avoid fever-reducing drugs, why some dinosaurs replace their

teeth as much as sharks do, and a condition that can make you hallucinate with smells

What satisfy some curiosity?

Your nose is running your throat hurts and your temperature is off the charts.

Should you use medicine to lower the fever?

Or are you better off letting it ride while your body fights the infection?

What do you do, Ashley?

I generally let it ride.

Like I'm not afraid of taking drugs I just you know it's it's kind of a hassle

To like go out and buy them and usually they're expired in my medicine cabinets. I just don't right

But I do wonder if reducing my fever is bad for me.

Right, because fever is your body's way of fighting off the infection.

So your body is doing it on purpose. And that's why we thought we'd look at the science today.

So when viruses or bacteria get into your body, your immune system starts attacking the intruders, one cell at a time.

Sometimes that initial response is enough... the intruders, one cell at a time.

Sometimes that initial response is enough

to get rid of the infection.

If it's too big of a job for the immune system

to handle on its own, your body produces chemicals

called pyrogens that tell the brain to crank up the temperature.

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