Fever is a set of symptoms caused in response to an infection; Fever also occurs in animals, and has been present with humans for thousands of years.
Symptom
- Increased heart rate: Heart rate increases by 10-15 beats per minute for each degree above normal body temperature.
- Increased blood pressure: occurs at the onset of fever, and this sule stabilize, when the body temperature is stable.
- Respiratory disorders: Increases due to heat.
- Digestive disorders: thirst increases
- Humoral disorders: increase in urine.
- Disorders of the sensory: The individual is depressed.
- Facies: sometimes delusions occur, due to high body temperature.
- Hyperthermia: increase in body temperature above 36 degrees Celsius, is usually fatal and cause brain damage reaching 42 degrees Celsius.
Causes
- Cold: A superficial infection of the respiratory tract, with headaches, sore throats, tearing, coughing, snot and fever proportional to the level of infection in the body.
- Flu: Acute infection of the respiratory tract with more intense and persistent symptoms than the cold.
- Bronchitis: Inflammation of the bronchi due to flu or transient catarrh processes, or exposure to irritants such as cigarette smoke, can become chronic.
- Otitis: Infection that causes inflammation and pain in the ear, and is treated with topical or oral antibiotics.
- Rhinitis: Inflammation of the nasal mucosa by an infectious process or an allergy.
- Tuberculosis: is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is spread by swallowing drops of saliva from a contagious by cough or sneeze, presents dry cough.
- Pneumonia: A bacterial infection caused by the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae presents, coughs, tremors, chills, difficulty breathing and chest pain.
- Urinary infections, skin infections, transient diseases such as lupo, in these cases the fever is usually occasional and moderate.
Myths
- High fever causes brain damage: it occurs at temperatures above 42 degrees Celsius.
- High fever causes meningitis: meningitis causes high fever, and can also be produced by diseases * low risk, according to its spread in the body.
- High fever causes seizures: Seizures can occur at the onset of fever and are not harmful.
- If the fever does not go down, it is serious. This may be a symptom that the disease continues to put resistance to the defense mechanisms of the human body.
- The presence of fever indicates the need for antibiotic treatment: in the majority of cases they are not necessary, and only soothing or temperature regulators are used.
What is it for?
- High temperature is created to maintain an environment in which bacteria or viruses can not reproduce or slow down their reproduction; Some viruses and bacteria can benefit from body temperature, in this case the fever is beneficial for them.
- Increases the speed of response of white blood cells
- Increases the secretion of the growth hormone, this hormone helps the immune system to fight viruses and bacteria, occasionally increases the size during the fever process due to the growth.
- Symptoms of fever usually occur so that the individual is at rest and saves energy to fight the virus or bacteria that caused the fever.
- The antibacterial effect is greater during fever.
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