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Small talk on fever

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Today I am going talk about the Fever which will help you to understand the mechanism and treatment of fever.
Whenever any micro organism i.e. Bacteria and Viruses enter any person’s body, it reacts with increase in number of White blood cell (WBC) in the blood. These WBCs fight against this micro organism and chemicals which are produce during this fight give rise to fever.
The Symptomatic treatment for fever is paracetamol and tepid sponging i.e. applying wet towels to the entire body and not only on the forehead as shown in movies. Tepid sponging work on the simple principle of physics that is the temperature moves from higher denomination to lower denomination.
In children particularly the temperature should not rise more than 100 °F as it may lead to convulsions.
In India, any fever with chills unless proved otherwise is due to malaria. Evening rise of Fever with loss of appetite and loss of weight may be due to TB.
The appropriate investigation and treatment should be given in such cases.

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