Immunologist Zhukova explained why a temperature of 37.5 is worse than a fever

During illness, a slight increase in body temperature is worse tolerated by patients than fever. The main reason for this is that people try to live as if nothing happened, and this only aggravates the symptoms. About this in an interview withNewspaper.ru”, said Daria Zhukova, Candidate of Medical Sciences, allergist-immunologist of the branch of the Israeli clinic “Hadassah” in Skolkovo.

She pointed out that with an increase in body temperature during the disease, both the activation of immunity against infection and the death of the pathogens themselves take place. Common symptoms of the infectious process – chills, sweating, muscle pain, aching joints, general weakness and fatigue, headache – are the result of the action of toxins from bacteria and viruses. These processes do not depend on temperature in any way – on the contrary, it depends on them. “Symptoms and complaints at elevated temperatures are rarely associated with the fever itself,” said Daria Zhukova. “They are due to the course of the disease that causes fever, as a protective reaction of the body.”

According to the allergist-immunologist, it seems to people that a temperature of 37-37.5 is worse than a high temperature, solely for a psychological reason. At a low temperature, people have the desire and will to continue to work and study, to be active, but poor health limits these desires. “Patients are trying to continue to live in the same rhythm, but this exacerbates the symptoms of the disease, ordinary tasks become difficult,” the doctor explained. It is this feature that is the reason that the disease is worse tolerated than at home in bed, even with a more obvious fever.

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