Fever is an unpleasant feeling of winter, which is not adequate to the ambient temperature and which does not pass even when covered with a blanket or duvet. Usually it takes only a certain time, when the body copes with the steep rise in temperature. Chills is therefore associated with fever,sometimes with chills when cold to tremble all over.

After the retreat of temperature (spontaneously or drugs) takes the opposite phenomenon – the sensation of heat with sweating together.

Chills accompanied by various febrile infectious diseases (flu, pneumonia, angina, inflammation of the epiglottis, heart inflammation, …), for some it is directly characteristic – eg. For malaria when the chills repeated every third or fourth day (depending on the type of malaria – tertian), the heaviest forms of malaria but with such regularity we do not count. Fever is also characteristic ofyellow fever (from there the name of the disease) and other tropical hemorrhagic fever. In our conditions, however, we meet with them, look at them, we have to pay when traveling to exotic countries and prefer to be vaccinated. Chills usually also accompanied by sepsis, which is a serious complication of inflammation which leads to exaggerated inflammatory response and as a result, failure to organs.

Therapy

Chills as well as fever, shock absorber anti-inflammatory drugs with antipyretic effect – aspirin, ibuprofen, aspirin, etc., Can also help cold wraps and baths. If the temperature is lower than 38 ° C, we do not have to be reduced, on the contrary it is desirable to make it through the body with the disease coped. Chills usually but usually associated with fever (over 38 ° C) so that said treatment is that already in place. But rather call the doctor can be a serious condition requiring antibiotics and other treatments or permanent supervision combined with a stay in hospital.