FeverApp vs FeverFriend

FeverApp is your diary to document acute infectious diseases, medication intake, symptoms, vaccines, and more for you and your family. The multimedia library helps to understand illness as a process and fever as a resource of your immune system. It is based on current guidelines regarding fever and febrile diseases. Use the medication scanner to add medicines to your list and track the intake quantity, date and time. FeverApp features: - Create separate profiles for each family member - Document and overview febrile episodes and diseases over time - Document febrile seizures - Document symptoms, measures and medications - Super easy new medication scanning feature - A graph view of well-being and other details - Set reminders for temperature measurements - Receive helpful tips from “Dr. Fee” - Brief informative videos - Read about recent scientific articles and guidelines about fever - Find medication alternatives in Info library Important notes: - To use FeverApp you need a family code, which you can receive from the cooperating medical practices. Please contact us via www.feverapp.de . - FeverApp does not measure temperature. To measure temperature a separate thermometer is necessary. - Your input in the Feverapp helps Prof. David Martin and his team from the University Witten/Herdecke gain a deeper understanding of fever. The project is finantially supported by a grant from the the German Ministry of Education and Research Available languages: German, English and Russian

FeverFriend helps you safely identify how severe the febrile condition is (optimal and harmless or dangerous) and what to do with it. It helps: - if you are worried or don’t know what to do. - to avoid unnecessary antipyretic medication or unnecessary consultations with a doctor. - to learn to treat febrile conditions confidently and safely. - to document the febrile illnesses for yourself and to share them with your doctor. You can help the scientific research and thus other parents as well. Fever is one of the most common symptoms to see a doctor with. Although children’s fever is harmless in most cases, many parents are insecure and anxious. The app and the knowledge base also helps you: - If your doctor does not have enough time to provide proper and thorough information. - If you are confused by a lot of conflicting information that different people or media are saying. - If you do not agree with uninformed opinions expressing old bad habits and misconceptions. - If you are interested in certain details: how exactly to measure fever, which symptoms are completely normal, harmless and which are actually worrying. - If you want to know what you can and should do in different situations. Should I give medicine, should I see a doctor or not? - If you want to prepare in advance, that when the child has a fever, you can act properly. - Can help the scientific research and thus other parents as well.