FEBRI: treatment guide

FEBRI is a symptom checker app. It checks cold, flu and dangerous viruses and provides advice and actions for high and low body temperature situations. In such situations, FEBRI offers guidance to appropriate first aid action and home treatment. FEBRI also suggests actions for hypothermia situation, when body temperature is lower than normal. High body temperature, or hyperthermia, can be dangerous if no action is undertaken, especially for young children. Lowered body temperature, or hypothermia, is also a dangerous situation, for which FEBRI provides guidelines for treatment. As first step FEBRI offers a symptom checker. Mark your symptoms, which could be either high body temperature symptoms, cold, flu or can be related to other medical conditions. It is necessary to track symptoms, in order to apply adequate care and home treatment, when your doctor can not be immediately reached. Also you need to input some personal data. The age of an ill person is extremely important for the right course of action – and it can be input either in months (for babies and toddlers), or in years (for older children or adults). Body mass is another important fact. Next step is to measure body temperature, and to input the value. Measuring temperature can be done in multiple ways, and body temperature values can differ depending on temperature measuring method - so you have to choose which method you use, before inputting the value into app. Another important thing for home treatment is to differentiate available OTC medicines, which could be used in fever and elevated body temperature situation. FEBRI provides information about those medicines, how those drugs differ, and which is their proper and intentional use. App also suggests drug dosage – correlated to person’s age and body mass. In case of hypotermia - lowered body temperature, FEBRI provides treatment instructions - what to do in order to keep the person warm and return to normal body temperature. And for your peace of mind: you can send (by e-mail) all the input data, with treatment suggestion, to your doctor, or any other person you trust which can help, or which can assure you that the home care steps and medicine you have applied were right and appropriate! IMPORTANT: although it was developed based on referenced professional and academic works considering hypertermia, hypotermia and fever symptoms (see ABOUT), FEBRI app is not a medical diagnostic tool, nor it is substitute for visiting your doctor - it is a home treatment app, which offers guidance when specialized medical help is not available at the moment. FEBRI app is free and FEBRI+ version is coming soon. Additional features in FEBRI+ version: • Multiple users (patients) • Multiple measurements per user • Both Fahrenheit and Celsius temp units with unit converter • Improved UX