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What a fever is actually doing
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Your body did that on purpose
A fever feels like the sickness. But it is not.
Your guess
When you get a fever, who turns up the heat?
Think of it like this. The germs make you sick.
Your body fights back. One way it fights is heat.
A fever is one of those tools. The body picks it on purpose.
fever
When the body raises its own temperature higher than normal to help fight an illness.
A fever is part of your immune system at work.
immune system
The body's defense team that fights germs and helps you get well.
Your immune system turns the heat up to help.
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“Fevers turn on the body's immune system. They help the body fight infection.”— Seattle Children's Hospital, "Fever - Myths Versus Facts"
Many people think a fever IS the illness.Tap to reveal
It is easy to mix up. The fever shows up with the sickness, so it looks like the sickness. But the fever is the body's own answer to the sickness. The germs are the illness. The fever is the body fighting them.
So your body did that on purpose. But how?