Figure 1

Initial symptomatic management of fever. The upper panel depicts the rectal temperature threshold for initiating symptomatic drug treatment in a 3-year-old child, who is nontoxic in appearance. The pie charts depict the role of the child’s general appearance (middle panel) and that of a past history of febrile seizures (lower panel) in modulating the temperature threshold to initiate symptomatic fever treatment. When statistical significance was reached, a horizontal bar indicates the degree of significance.