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2. 6 Signs You Have a Fever When There’s No Thermometer Around

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   When you have a fever, your body will often divert energy toward trying to fight an infection, Dr. Russo says. As a result, you may end up feeling tired or weak. You’re not hungry .

3. How to keep your immune system healthy this holiday ...

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   Dr. Leana Wen: Our immune systems are our body’s natural defense against viruses, bacteria and other potential pathogens. Strong, healthy immune systems reduce the risk of contracting infectious ...

4. Feed a cold, starve a fever - Wikipedia

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   The adage dates to the time of Hippocrates when fever was not well understood. His idea was the fever was the disease, and starving the sick person would starve the disease. In 1574, John Withals published "Fasting is a great remedie of feuer" in a dictionary. The adage states that eating will help cure a cold; not eating will help cure a fever ...

5. Doctors Explain What It Means When You Have Chills But No Fever

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   The result: You feel cold, and your body kicks in with shivering and other natural mechanisms to heat up. ... or scared activates your body’s fight-or-flight response, triggering the release of ...

6. Sickness behavior - Wikipedia

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   Sickness behavior in its different aspects causes an animal to limit its movement; the metabolic energy not expended in activity is diverted to the fever responses, which involves raising body temperature. [1] This also limits an animal's exposure to predators while it is cognitively and physically impaired. [1]

7. Fever - Wikipedia

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   Fever or pyrexia in humans is a symptom of an anti-infection defense mechanism that appears with body temperature exceeding the normal range due to an increase in the body's temperature set point in the hypothalamus.