What could be the reason that the temperature of 37 lasts a week?
This is most often caused by one or more of the following reasons:
1) Problems arose in the functioning of the nervous system. The human thermoregulation center is located in the brain department, the main regulator of the body - the hypothalamus. If its function is impaired (which happens with sleep disorders, chronic stress, nervous exhaustion), then in this case, a temperature of 37 weeks or more is sometimes noted.
2) Chronic sluggish infection, which, as a rule, develops against the background of a decrease in the immune response. If the immunity has decreased, then an elevated temperature may be a reaction to ordinary microorganisms, which normally are not dangerous.
3) Autoimmune aggression, when one's own immune system mistakenly attacks tissue of one's own body;
4) Explicit or latent allergies.
Surveys quite often show that prolonged stress leads the body to a state of constant combat readiness, and prolonged stay in this state leads to depletion of both the nervous and immune systems. And autoimmune inflammation or infection joining against such a background causes the temperature of 37 to hold for 2 weeks or more. In case, along with chronic subfebrile condition, pains appear in tendons and muscles, then we can assume that we are talking about fibromyalgia. The cause of this disease is stress, infection, and a decrease in the immune response.
What other symptoms can accompany the condition when the temperature of 37 lasts a week?
1) The feeling of constant fatigue, which is a consequence of the vital activity of microorganisms, as well as immune and nervous exhaustion.
2) Pain in the muscles and joints (which indicates the onset of rheumatic disease, or at least a rheumatic reaction);
3) trouble sleeping;
4) Depression;
5) A variety of inflammatory processes (whether it is sinusitis or bronchitis, gastritis or cystitis, tonsillitis or pharyngitis, prostatitis, and so on).
6) headaches;
7) Vegetative crises (feeling of palpitations, periodically recurring attacks of fear, lability of blood pressure, lack of air) ;
8) Relapsing herpes;
9) recurrent thrush;
10) A childhood infection that began in adulthood, or the occurrence of a disease against which a person was vaccinated.
What needs to be examined first of all in a person who has a temperature of 37 for a week?
1) What happens to his nervous system (usually a complete neurological examination is enough, much less often the need for MRI of the brain to check the state of the hypothalamus);
2) What is the immune status (a blood test is required for a detailed immunogram);
3) Are there foci of autoimmune, infectious and inflammatory processes in the body.
Carrying out such studies will help to accurately determine the range of reasons that the temperature 37 lasts a week, and begin targeted treatment.
Treatment of a person whose temperature lasts 37 weeks or more should be carried out in three directions:
1) Normalize immunity;
2) Suppress infectious agents;
3) Harmonize the processes of inhibition and excitement taking place in the nervous system.
Most often, foci of chronic inflammation are found in the ear, throat, nose, reproductive organs, urinary tract and kidneys, and in the digestive system (carriage of Giardia, Helicobacter, Yersinia, etc.). After a comprehensive and complete treatment of the identified foci and the course of rehabilitation of the patient, vaccination may be required to prevent the occurrence of this kind of infection in the future.