How high a fever can get before you can die?

Answer 1

It can cause brain damage if it is not controlled soon enough, and if it is high enough, it can make a person delirious. Best way to treat a high fever is ice pack on the head, or ice bath. Something really cold to bring the fever down.

^^ This is not true. taking a ice bath is not a good option. this will make it harder for heat to escape from your body

Answer 2

After a typical range of usually 106-107ºF, the nervous system starts shutting down to prevent damage therefore, brain damage is highly unlikely unless it is left untreated for a prolonged time. Death can be observed if the body temperature is continuously rising past approximately 107ºF because after that threshold, the enzymes and proteins that control the body starts to denature and are unable to function properly.

Answer 3

A high fever is very dangerous because you could get such a high body temperature that your body goes into shock. It's kind of like when you are so cold, your body goes into shock, and starts to shake.

To prevent very high fevers, to can take Advil every 4 hours. If your fever gets way too out of control, you need to get to the hospital. I, myself, have had many accounts of high fevers. Once, I had to go to the hospital and they gvae me special medicine to calm my fever down.

Answer 4

Enzymes work to catalyze metabolic processes in the human body, and since there are a lot of processes, enzymes are essential to the basic survival of any organism.

Enzymes are also proteins, and as you probably know, proteins tend to function within a certain temperature range that is considered to be optimal. If the temperature is too high, then proteins will be denatured, thus being unable to function properly. During an illness, you body increases its temperature so that it may kill the microbial invaders, which having proteins of their own, would less likely to survive in this hostile environment. However, if the high temperature is prolonged, you run the risk of denaturing your own proteins because heat is a non-specific form of defence and targets just about anything.

When the enzymes and other proteins start denaturing, you affect the metabolic processes, the structural proteins that constitute your organs, and many other things. If the damage is serious enough, then you die.

Answer 5

A sustained hyperpyrexic (high fever) condition is deadly to most cells of the body, especially neuronal cells in the brain, brainstem and spinal cord.