What is a fever and how many types of fever? Which is created to problems of human life?
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A fever is a temporary increase in your body temperature, often due to an illness. Continuous fever the temperature remains above normal throughout the day and does not fluctuate more than 1 degree celsius in 24 hours. This type of fever occurs in lobar pneumonia, typhoid, urinary tract infection, infective endocarditis, brucellosis, typhus etc. Remittent fever the temperature remains above normal throughout the day and fluctuates more than 2 degree celsius in 24 hours. This type of fever is usually seen patients of typhoid infection and infective endocarditis. This type of fever is most common in practice. Intermittent fever the temperature is present only for some hours in a day and remains to normal for the remaining hours. When the spike occurs daily, it is quotidian, when every alternate day, it tertian and when every third day, it is quartan. Intermittent fever is seen in malaria, kala-azar, pyemia, septicemia etc. Hectic or septic fever the temperature variation between peak and nadir is very large and exceeds 5 degree celsius. This type of fever occur in septicemia.
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