35 Percent of Parents Giving Kids Fever-Reducing Medicines Unnecessarily: Poll

Infants’ Tylenol brand fever and pain reliever is seen in a home in Toronto on Oct. 7, 2022. Giordano Ciampini/The Canadian Press

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.