Today we’ll talk about chills at a temperature. How does it manifest and why? It occurs due to spasms in the blood vessels that are on the surface of the skin. Then there is a feeling of cold, and muscle trembling is also felt. In most cases, such symptoms portend a fever that occurs due to an infectious disease.
In addition, during a cold or flu, if you notice a fever, chills, muscle pain, and also a headache, then this indicates that the body is intoxicated. Then the patient, in addition to tablets, is prescribed a plentiful drink.
Symptoms: chills with fever
Chills at high temperatures result from pathogenic viruses and germs entering the body. To counter them, protective reactions are activated that cause a fever. Thanks to spasms, heat transfer externally decreases, but inside, on the contrary, it increases. This makes it possible to independently fight the infection. At the same time, a sick person feels overwhelmed and weak.
A similar reaction of the body can be a sign of various diseases. Chills with an increase in temperature are a sign that something is wrong in the body. Perhaps this is SARS, but cough and runny nose appear much later.
The cause may be an infectious disease, but the temperature, as in the first case, will appear a little later, and only then the remaining signs of the disease.
It happens that chills are clearly felt, and there seems to be a temperature, but in fact it is a sharp jump in pressure, regardless of whether it jumped up or down.
Causes of chills
Chills can also occur after a psychoemotional disorder, which tends to occur in a stressful situation, due to overwork or agitation, even from lack of sleep.
This condition can often occur among lovers of different diets. As a result of a slowdown in metabolism, chills appear, and sometimes along with temperature.
Provoke a fever can be a long stay in the cold or the sun. This will be followed by hypothermia or overheating.
Chills can occur due to trauma, after which shock occurs.
Medical experts warn that a fever is not always associated with colds.
This can happen when the thyroid gland is not working properly. In addition to chills, there are almost the same symptoms as with a cold: fever, lethargy and fatigue.
Chills can with hormonal disorder and subsequent diseases, such as diabetes.
Reasons for women
Women experience chills more often for some reason:
- The first is the emotional side, since the beautiful half of humanity is much more impressionable than the male. Even with the slightest excitement, temperature, chills, headache may appear.
- The second - in older women, during menopause, alternating flushes of chills and heat. In their case, it is best to seek the advice of a gynecologist or endocrinologist.
- Often this happens during the menstrual cycle, especially in the early days.
Chills at night
It happens that chills occur at night during sleep. Let's look at the causes of this phenomenon. Chills at night arise:
- in people with diabetes;
- for those who have hyperhidrosis - it is profuse sweating, but shivering not because of it, but because the resting person sleeps on sheets wet from sweat;
- in patients who are concerned about hemorrhoids: chills may announce a possible complication of this disease.
If you notice such symptoms, then consult a doctor
Sometimes, when the chills are at a temperature, then without the advice of medical professionals it is impossible to draw conclusions on their own.
With such signs, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea are also manifested. This can be intoxication, poisoning, disruption in the intestines. If you do not consult a doctor in time, then any inflammatory process may occur.
Also, such symptoms can be with an allergy to some food. They appear only after taking foods that cause an allergic reaction.
Also, chills and fever occur with all signs of a cold. But sometimes this is not at all true, and only a doctor can confirm that it is either a cold or some other more serious disease.
If such symptoms manifest themselves constantly and almost simultaneously, there is a feeling that pressure is jumping, then, without delaying for a long time, you should consult a cardiologist.
Temperature rise
Chills are thought to be a sign of temperature. But if this is not a cold, then doctors say that this body independently fights an infection that has entered the body. If the body temperature is about 38 degrees, then antibodies, phagocytes, interferon are just being produced. They, in turn, perform a protective function against viruses and germs.
But if the chills at a temperature of 38 degrees lasts a long time and the patient does not feel any relief, then only a doctor is needed.
This condition can be observed with any acute diseases of an infectious nature. Also when some chronic diseases worsen.
It is much more difficult to find out the cause of this condition if the disease is a consequence of the influence of different microbes on the body, because of which the human immunity is significantly reduced. There is no way to do without laboratory research.
When chills at a temperature of more than 38 degrees last more than three weeks and there are no other symptoms, then in medicine this phenomenon is called fever of unknown origin.
High fever, chills. Causes of these symptoms
Fever can be closely associated with the following diseases:
- with endocarditis, pyelonephritis, osteomyelitis, pneumonia, tonsillitis, sinusitis, meningitis, prostatitis, inflammation of the uterus, sepsis - all these diseases result from exposure to bacteria;
- with tuberculosis, typhus or relapsing fever, brucellosis, with Lyme disease, with HIV infection - these diseases are considered infectious;
- with malaria, infectious mononucleosis, candidiasis, toxoplasmosis, syphilis; the causes of these diseases can be both viral and parasitic, and fungal;
- with leukemia, with lymphoma, with a tumor of the bronchi or lungs and other organs;
- with polyarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, polymyalgia rheumatism, allergic vasculitis, periarthritis nodosa, systemic lupus erythematosus, Crohn’s disease - these diseases belong to systemic inflammations;
- with endocrine diseases.
In addition, it can chill with low hemoglobin in the blood. Also, when it has an increased adrenaline rush, which contributes to adrenaline hyperthermia.