Friday, December 19, 2014

Fever

Fever is usually a sign something has gone wrong in your body. For adults, the fever will feel uncomfortable, but usually harmless despite reaching a temperature of 39.4 Celsius or higher. For children and adolescents fever may indicate a serious infection. The high temperature of the body does not indicate how severe the infection that you experienced. Mild infections may cause high fever and severe infections can also cause a mild fever.


Usually the fever will go away with time. Some nonprescription can reduce fever. But sometimes it's better if left for fever also play a role in helping the body fight infections.
symptom
Some symptoms of fever, among others:
• Sweating
• Shaking
• Headache
• Muscle pain
• Loss of appetite
• Dehydration
• Weak

High fever of 39.4 Celsius and 41.1 Celsius can cause:
• Hallucinations
• Confusion
• Irritability
• Guffaw

Causes & Risk Factors
cause

Daily temperature Temperature can affect your body temperature. In addition, the menstrual cycle and heavy exercise can also affect your body temperature.

Here's how the body temperature occurs:
• Body temperature is regulated by the hypothalamus - an area at the base of the brain that serves as your body's thermostat.
• The temperature of the body become unbalanced due to the heat produced by the body's tissues - especially the liver and muscles - and the loss of body temperature.
• When you are sick normal body temperature will be set higher as the blood flow to the skin to reduce heat loss
• When the fever started your body will adjust the temperature. This causes you to shiver or tremble until the blood in the hypothalamus managed to adjust the temperature
• When the body temperature drops to normal you can sweat as the body releases excessive temperatures
• If you are very old, very young or alcoholics, then the body's ability to regulate fever can be reduced

Fever usually indicates your body responds to bacterial or viral infection. Other causes may include:
• Exposure to heat
• Burned sun
• certain inflammatory conditions
• Malignant tumors or some form of kidney cancer
• Some medications, such as antibiotics and drugs used for high blood pressure or seizures
• Immunizations

prevention

The best way to prevent infection is to reduce fever in a simple way that is effective, ie washing hands. In addition is shut your mouth when coughing and nose when sneezing.

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