Abstract
I must protest the article in the July issue of Pediatrics (46:102) by Oyin Olurin, titled "Cortical Blindness after Convulsions and Fever." This misleading title only seems to perpetuate the canard, firmly entrenched in the layman's medical knowledge, that high fevers are dangerous.1
Parents, unconcerned with temperatures of 101 or 102, suddenly panic when their child's fever rises two points to 103 or 104. Brain damage seldom results from fever alone. Four of the reported cases in the above article had cerebral malaria according to the author's own evaluation.
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