A fever signals a rescue effort from the body, and it is a sign that your body is trying to fight an internal problem. According to Dr. Hiral Bhatt, fevers occur when there is too much accumulated waste inside the body, or when your body is trying to fight an infection.

What Should I Do If I Have a Fever?

1. Don’t panic

It’s only natural to be confused about what to do when you’re in the throes of a fever, but it is important that you don’t panic. Panicking and stressing yourself out even more are some of the worst things you can do when you have a fever.

2. Don’t Take Antipyretics Unnecessarily

Do not be in a hurry to reduce the fever immediately. If you have a fever below 101°F (38.3°C), then there is no need to take fever suppressing medicines. Doing so will rush your body’s natural processes. You might not recover enough, and your fever could recur.

3. Fast For the First Few Days

Make sure you are fasting for the first few days of the fever. While your body is fighting against pathogens or waste, added processes like digestion will only slow down your body’s fever-fighting abilities. Your body will appreciate the time and space that you give it to fight the fever.

4. Get As Much Rest as Possible

Make sure you get adequate rest. This, once again, ties in with the previous point- your body needs to make sure that all of its systems are focused on fighting the fever and getting the toxins out of your body. Rest will allow your body to return to normal balance much sooner.

5. Sip Warm Water

Warm water will aid your body in flushing out the toxins which are causing the fever. Keep in mind that Dr. Hiral Bhatt recommends you do this only if you’re not in a hot climate. If you have a mouth ulcer, try sipping medicated water.

Infuse spices like sandalwood, khus, coriander and ginger to your drinking water, and keep taking sips. Maintaining hydration during a fever is important, since your body tends to lose water through sweat.

6. Apply Heat

If you have body ache or a congested chest along with your fever, make sure to apply a warm compress to the area with pain and your chest. Simply heat up a towel under a hot iron and apply to the area.

You could also cover yourself with a heavy blanket and turn off any fans or air conditioners in the room. This will help you to sweat off the fever more easily.

What Should I Do When the Fever Starts Subsiding?

After the initial days of fasting, you can reintroduce some light and easy to digest meals. A simple rice gruel will help provide your body with the nourishment it needs. To make this, roast the rice grain and boil in water so that the resulting mixture is slightly soupy. You can add spices like ginger, cumin, salt and pepper.

If you’re in a cold climate, or if it’s winter, you can have moong soup. Simply substitute rice in the previous recipe with whole moong, and boil it to the consistency of thick soup.

After a few more days, you can start having meals like khichdi, or rice and dal. However, if you feel like the fever is starting to return, then you should immediately go back to fasting. As per the Ayurvedic Clinic in Navi Mumbai, your body has not completely recovered from the fever yet, and you should allow it more time to focus on fighting the toxins.

Conclusion

A fever does not always require chemical intervention. While it might seem like a good idea to simply pop an antipyretic and go about your day, this often leaves the root problem uncured, and makes way for the fever to recur over and over again.

Ayurveda focuses on treating your illnesses from the core instead of treating the symptoms as they come. Believe in the power of your body to fight for itself. Following this advice from the best Ayurvedic doctor in Navi Mumbai will help you to recover from your fever and get back to the peak of your health.

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One such golden chance is to do a Backlog clearance for our body.

It is a very simple, do-it-at-home detox. We can use these 3 weeks (or 2) for systematic fasting and give our body a chance to recover from all the burden we keep on loading on it day after day.

Why must we do it now only?

Eating less food is possible and beneficial only when our activities are limited too.

This is probably the only time in years when we get a full 3 weeks of minimal activity. No rushing to the office, no travelling, no deadlines, no school, no tiffin, not even shopping…nothing.

What are the benefits?

• First and foremost, it will help keep the body environment non conducive for infections. Worms, insects, viruses and bacteria thrive where waste is available. Never in clean spaces.
• It will strengthen the digestive fire.
• It will help clear out stored waste from deeper tissue and organ levels. As soon as the daily food load on the stomach reduces, it gets time to clear out the backlog.
• You will feel a great sense of lightness and flexibility in the body. Energy levels improve.
• Minor aches and pains, gases, indigestion, acidity etc will vanish without medicines. Skin blemishes will reduce.
• Soon the mind feels relaxed and alert too. Can lead to creativity, clarity and insights on topics that we usually don’t have time for. Much better able to handle daily chaos

What is the diet to be followed?

It is very simple. Eat as per the following ONLY after feeling a strong sense of hunger.

• Wake up latest by 7am
• Have warm water throughout the day whenever thirsty.
• Can take your morning tea/coffee. Keep it to half a cup only. Add ginger and cardamom to It.
• Skip breakfast. Wait till you feel really hungry.
• Then have lunch. That will be green gram (moong) soup. (Not to be cooked in a pressure cooker. Soak well and let it cook till soft) Add only cumin, curry leaves, ginger, salt and turmeric.

Alternatively, 

*Can have mixed vegetable soup.

*Salad

*Papaya or Sweet Lime or oranges (Avoid fruits if having a cold or cough)

• Then again wait till good hunger sensation and have dinner. This should not be later than 7pm. Any simple vegetable with chapati (wheat/jowar/bajra/ragi) Chapati quantity should be half of how many you usually have. Or Moong dal khichdi
• Do not have anything post dinner except sips of water.
• Sleep latest by 10 pm.

What else can be added to this regimen?

• Herbal tea like tulsi+ginger+turmeric+coriander seeds with little jaggery or honey
• Honey in boiled and cooled water.
• Triphala churna with warm water at bedtime
• Mild yoga
• Meditation

Note

• Totally stop all fermented, dairy, bakery, stale and fried foods.
• At any point when you start feeling hungry, stay with the feeling. Eat when you feel energy levels dropping. That is real hunger.

You will be surprised to know how much food we really need and how much we eat!

Go ahead..give it a try and make the most of this lock-down.

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