Feed a cold – Starve a fever?

Have you ever noticed that when your puppy or cat gets sick, they tend to stop eating for a while? Well, feed a cold-starve a fever is an old saying, but does it really hold water? According to a new study there might be some truth in this, according to what researchers found with mice. The mice with a bacterial infection died after being fed, while mice with a viral infection survived after eating. Ruslan Medzhitov, senior author and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Ct and team, have …read more