What causes people to have feavers?

Answer 1

You get a fever because it is one way of klling an invading pathogen. The normal body temperature is a good environment for the disease to replicate and increase. The body responds by increasing the temperature in order to make the pathogens les able to multiply and may even kill them .This is why temperature may keep on increasing until it kills the sufferer.

Answer 2

Fever is a defense mechanism of our body. When we catch infection by means of bacteria or viruses, our body's immune system system start to kill them and body temperature increases. We get fever in almost all kind of diaseses.

Answer 3

causes for fevers that have nothing to do with bacteria or viruses include overexposure to the sun or heat. Also called sunstroke, people can develop fevers from staying in the sun too long.

Sometimes staying out too long in the rain can also cause fevers to happen.

Fever in Kids CausesFever in children causes due to any kind of infection like bacterial infection or viral infection or through use of medications, illicit drug and heat illnesses etc. Low Grade Fever CausesCauses of low fever can be mumps, chickenpox, wound infection, scarlet fever, hepatitis, mononucleosis and others. Autoimmune and viral diseases can also cause low grade fever. Recurring Fever CausesPossible causes of recurrent fever are typhoid, brucellosis, malaria, cholera etc. High Fever CausesCommon medical conditions resulting in high fever are measles, roseola, scarlet fever, glandular fever, sinusitis etc.

Answer 4

An elevated temperature is the body's first line of defense to a bacterial infection.

Answer 5

you catch a fever because when you have germs in your body your bodys temperature naturally rises to kill the germ that could prove harmful if it didnt

Answer 6

a fever is the bodies way of getting rid of viresis- it tries to destroy the virus with heat; causeing a fever.