Fever

10/18/2024

Incentivised by three days of fever, I did a little research.

It turns out that the immune system generates heat and chemicals, locally at the site of infection, so as to kill the pathogens and maybe sacrifice some of your own cells in the process.

But get this, local temperature at the site of infection can get up to 50 degrees C.

Your blood system acts like any water jacket for cooling and heating; it works to equalise the temperature all over your body.

Which got me thinking, maybe it’s best to extract heat from your body while you have a fever. The best way to do this is a cold shower or bath.

My thinking is that chilling the body would take heat away from infected site, this causing the immune system to double down on producing heat and chemicals at the site of infection.

It also makes you feel much better. I suspect the brain gets all weird over 40 degree C and doesn’t work properly anymore. Hallucinations etc.

It worked for me.