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2006-08-30 06:15:13 · 6 answers · asked by T 1 in Health Diseases & Conditions Infectious Diseases

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A chill is something we feel in reaction to a fever. So a disease that gives you chill symptoms, would be a disease that gives you a fever.

2006-08-30 06:27:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Any infections where you have fever.

Some infections do not cause fever so you wouldn't have chills with them.

A fever is a rise in body temperature caused by factors released by infectious agents or by cells in your body upon contact with an infectious agent or its products. These factors reset your body's thermostat in a part of your brain near the medulla. In response to this, the blood vessels in your skin constrict (to minimize heat loss). This makes you feel cold.

If the fever will be a high one, your muscles may begin to twitch in order to increase the build up of heat. All of this happens without your having to think about it.

Sometimes, becoming frightened may also trigger the same factors and you will feel a chill and may or may not get a fever as a result of your body's response.

The unpleasant sensations around coming down with a fever aren't about the increased body temperature. They are about the release of these factors that trigger the changes leading up to the rise in temperature.

I did an experiment. I took my temperature after sitting in a hot sauna for 15 minutes. My core body temperature was around 106 degrees farenheit. That would be a high fever in any of us. My body kept this temperature for ten to fifteen minutes after leaving the sauna. I did not feel any chills upon contact with Cold air. It was snowing out and the air temperature was around 20 degrees. In fact, I could put snow on my body without feeling chills. In fact, I felt wonderful after taking the sauna.

All of this proved to me that it isn't the body temperature of a fever that makes you feel sick. It's all the other stuff your body is doing to fight an infection that is the cause of discomfort and also causes a fever.

2006-08-30 14:20:05 · answer #2 · answered by Art 3 · 0 0

anytime you run a fever you get the chills.
for 2 reasons:
1. your veins open up to allow more blood flow. this brings more blood to the surface. the blood cools off and you get cold.

2. since you are getting warmer the surrounding air tends to feel colder and you feel cold.

2006-09-01 03:13:37 · answer #3 · answered by mig_killing_pigs 2 · 0 0

Infections;
anemia;
metabolic disorders..like hypothyroidism etc;
cancer;
the list is endless

2006-09-02 23:19:58 · answer #4 · answered by random dude 1 · 0 0

Could be sinus,flu,cold

2006-08-30 13:18:17 · answer #5 · answered by indiana 2 · 0 0

any infections

2006-08-30 13:18:28 · answer #6 · answered by dumplingmuffin 7 · 1 0

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