Fevers

Are you reading this book? I looked it up myself...I think it's a type of malaria spread by mosquitos...

Scarlet fever can be brought under control by penicillin. Aside from having to teat diarrhoea, the treatment and course of scarlet fever is the same as strep throat. Where there is a penicillin allergy, clindamycin or erythromycin is also effective. After 24 hours of treatment victims should no longer be infectious. People that have been exposed to the disease should watch for symptoms for a week particularly in the case of very young children. it is however extremely unusual for toddlers to contract the disease.

Maybe. Take your temp. Normal is 98.8

no no Demerol is pain killer

Fever usually is an indications of an infection in your body. So your body is fighting something which naturally increases your Heart Rate. Has your temperature returns to its normal limits(36.0-37.9), your heart rate regulates itself as well.

This intense type of crying in a baby between at least three weeks and three months of age is known as colic.

Just as you can catch an infection from family members from being physically in close proximity to them, so too can you catch an infection from someone by kissing him or her. yea if they have a cold. its like a air born germ entering into you.

Viruses of the Arenaviridae family cause the Argentinian, Brazilian, Bolivian, and Venezuelan hemorrhagic fevers. Lassa fever, which occurs in west Africa, also arises from an arenavirus.

Nimonia (pneumonia) fever is the fever that occurs with the lung infection pneumonia. Pneumonia is a serious infection caused by bacteria, virus, or fungus. The fever that accompanies pneumonia is the body's way of trying to fight this infection.

No it is not.

Yes, 103.8º F fever is high enough to require medical attention.

Either tetracycline or erythromycin is effective against both forms of relapsing fever.

If you have a fever you need a medicine with a fever reducer. Acetaminophen and ibuprofen are the common fever reducers.

In Fahrenheit, that's below normal. In Celsius, the person is evidently actually on fire, since normal is 37.

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The exact answer is not known to me. Most of the enzymes stop working at the high grade fever level. That means above say 105 degree Fahrenheit. Proteins from the blood may start coagulating at this temperature. The function of the brain get adversely affected.

Despite the common belief, a fever is actually a good thing. It means your body is trying to destroy whatever infection you have. If your fever is 102 or under, it'sbest just to let it run it's course. If the fever is higher or uncomfortable, you can take a fever reducer such as Tylenol or Motrin. Make sure you keep warm and drink lots of water.

Fever is caused by infection .noninfectious causes are cancer,collagen vascular diseases,granulomatous diseases etc.Infectious causes releses pyrogens which produce pyrogenic cytokines, and non infectious causes directly stimulates release of pyrogenic cytokines, which go to vessels supplying hypothalamus(lamina ventricularis), where they produce PGE2 from endothelium of blood vessels,which makes thermostat of hypothalamus in a higher level, which causes fever.

Yes, it is normal.

They mean much the same but "I am suffering from fever" is grammatically more correct: it is the fever that actually makes you suffer.

Not really. Actually, in case of fever, temperature is increased which causes most of the enzymes to be degraded, therefore enzymatic activity get decreased that leads to lowering of the metabolism rate. Thus, BMR is decreased.

Fever is a sign of the body fighting some sort of infection. 101.4 is not a very high fever. Fevers generally will reduce in a day to a few days time, with rest and fluids. A fever generally does not go higher than 105-106.2 degrees. If it does go above or the fever persists, visit a doctor.

Rose fever is a form of eye allergy characterized by long stringy filaments of white glutinous material that form in the conjunctaof the eye usually due to pollen irritation. To the sufferer this feels like sand in the eye and is very distressing. One of the best treatments for rose fever is an infusion of estivin, extractof pressedrose petals said to have been used by early monks in Europe.