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Tingtong S
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7:51 AM on October 07, 2008
Amit Suri's Answer
Hi Tintong...
When we are ill our body fights against the infection with the help of antibodies. In the process of producing more antibodies our body heats up. More temperature more is the production of antibodies. Substances like pyrogens causes fever. They move through bloodstream send message to hypothalamus in brain which controls body temperature.Hypothalamus further send message to the body which causes shivering increase in heart rate etc.
Rise in the temperature of body indicates that our body is sick and fever takes our body to a temperature which is not friendly for the virus in our body and therefore helps us to get well soon.
Now here a big question arises that whether fever should be lowered by taking medicines as from above we come to know that it helps the body in recovering infection?
It should be noticed that fever is not a type of illness or create disorder in body it is the indication for some other problem or infection in the body.
Temperature should be taken seriously depends upon the symptoms other than fever,like age of the individual, illness, behavior etc.
Sometimes cold or other virus can cause high fever while serious infections cannot cause fever and they may lower the normal body temperature.
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9:45 AM on October 07, 2008
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