The following is a book review that you might to pick up and read if you're keen on getting some basic knowledge on illnesses and sicknesses.
This book titled ‘YOU AND YOUR HEALTH[i]' is written by Dr Hu who is from Penang.
About the author, he came to Singapore in 1973 to pursue his medical degree under the Singapore Merit Scholarship scheme. He was also offered a Colombo Plan and a local scholarship to read medicine. After graduation in 1978, he was in government service for a number of years before going into private practice. His postgraduate experiences were in the fields of internal medicine, gastroenterology, paediatrics, orthopaedics, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, dermatology and accident and emergency medicine.
This book discusses succinctly different types of illnesses such as fever, gastric pain, giddiness and many others. These are mostly the common illness that people usually suffer from. In his book, Dr Hu briefly explains what the illness is actually about, how we can prevent it, the possible effects and causes of the illness, point of interest as well as commonly asked questions.
Out of the whole book that I have read, I personally liked the topic on fever. Fever is something that everyone will get at least once in their entire life. Fever is actually the body’s response to an infection. This response is actually crucial as the increase in temperature is to help enhance the immune system to fight off any germs. The main causes of having fever are infection as well as rare causes. The rare causes include hyperactive gland, rheumatic diseases as well as underlying cancer and infection includes flu, chest infection, and many more. Things that we should look out for in having a fever is like an increase in a frequency or pain in passing urine, having neck pain. What we ought to do during a fever is avoid covering with thick blanker or wearing thick clothes. This is because as we may feel more comfortable it does not help lower our temperature. Instead we ought to rest in a cool room which could be air condition. We can even take a cold shower which can help to bring down the fever and drink lots of water. 
I found this topic really enriching as more often than not, when I have a fever I would have the tendency to cover myself and keep myself warm from the cold. I also would not want to be in an air conditioned room and take a cold shower due to me feeling cold. However after reading the book did I realize that I was doing all the wrong things. Hence the correct steps should be to drink more water as drinking water when having a fever helps to prevent damage to the brain.DF
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[i] (Hu, ‘You and Your Health’, 2003)
