Still going through posts I missed while I had no net, so thought I would add my tup'pence.
My younger brother was (maybe still is, only now he lives in Australia, so I wouldn't know!) one of those people who got tonsillitis at the drop of a hat, but because he had asthma and later post-viral fatigue syndrome they wouldn't take his tonsils out. Every time he got tonsilitis, without fail, he'd get delirious, even though his temperature never got scary-high. This wasn't just a "little kid" thing - right into his teens and at least up to the point I left home, as far as I know. In our teens, I remember having to *fight* with him once, when Mum left us in the house together so she could go shopping. He was just totally out of it. Maybe the PVF contributed, but there it is.
I, on the other hand, almost never got a fever, no matter how sick I was. (On the other hand, anaesthetic makes me act like I'm drunk and I've failed to recognise my own mother when I've come round before now.)
TL;DR People are individuals and medical generalisations are generalisations. :D As I think you said above.
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My younger brother was (maybe still is, only now he lives in Australia, so I wouldn't know!) one of those people who got tonsillitis at the drop of a hat, but because he had asthma and later post-viral fatigue syndrome they wouldn't take his tonsils out. Every time he got tonsilitis, without fail, he'd get delirious, even though his temperature never got scary-high. This wasn't just a "little kid" thing - right into his teens and at least up to the point I left home, as far as I know. In our teens, I remember having to *fight* with him once, when Mum left us in the house together so she could go shopping. He was just totally out of it. Maybe the PVF contributed, but there it is.
I, on the other hand, almost never got a fever, no matter how sick I was. (On the other hand, anaesthetic makes me act like I'm drunk and I've failed to recognise my own mother when I've come round before now.)
TL;DR People are individuals and medical generalisations are generalisations. :D As I think you said above.