Chills is a vibration throughout the body due to the feeling of winter, when soaring temperatures –fever. Need not be accompanied by any fever, especially when he started slowly. Typically, however, is the introduction of influenza, streptococcus infection (tonsillitis, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, rose, intracardiac inflammation, …) and pneumonia. Repeated chills (not only at the beginning of the disease, but at each temperature rise) is in sepsis and malaria, which is repeated every third or fourth day (according to the type of malaria – tertian, kvartána). In the most serious form of malaria (ie. Tropical malaria), this regularity varies.

Chills is accompanied by some non-infectious diseases such as inflammation of the pancreas (acute pancreatitis), fever allergies and we can see her also in medication anti-inflammatories (aspirin, ibuprofen, aspirin, …), when after a few hours to stop the drug act, if We do not give in time for the next, and there is thus a further sudden onset of fever and chills.

In addition to these drugs can suppress shivering cold wraps and baths.

When the temperature drops, the opposite phenomenon occurs then – feeling hot and sweating. This in turn organism can cope with the withdrawal of fever, which transfers the heat to the surroundings.