Symptoms of fever
Fever affects different chemical processes, therefore its occurrence causes generalized rather than local symptoms. Other symptoms that may be present differ according to the underlying cause of fever rather than the fever itself.
Common symptoms of fever include:
- Chills: When your body’s temperature rises, your brain misinterprets that into a fall of the room’s temperature, causing you to feel cold and to shiver.
- Sweating: Sweating is our natural way of reducing our body’s temperature.
- Fatigue: Fatigue can result as a response to the depletion of the body’s energy on controlling the fever due to an underlying infection.
- Loss of appetite
- Headache
- Body aches
- Dehydration: Dehydration is felt as an unquenchable thirst, fatigue, and weakness. It results from excessive sweating.
- Delirium: Delirium can occur in high-grade fever or hyperpyrexia. The brain becomes unable to function properly at such high temperatures affecting awareness. If the temperature rises higher, there is a risk of permanent brain damage unless the temperature is brought down.