Best Doctors for Fever Treatment in Jubliee Hills, Hyderabad

Normal body temperature ranges between 37.2 and 38.3 °C or 99.0 and 100.9 °F. An increase in the body temperature is termed as fever or pyrexia. A fever is not a disease but the body’s protective reaction as a symptom of different medical conditions that are in most cases curable but sometimes can be serious and fatal. Viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections resulting in a flu, cold, urinary tract infections, filaria and malaria. some other disorders are various forms of cancer, skeletal or connective tissue diseases, and the likes. The temperature can be recorded with a thermostat either by placing it in the rectum, in ear, on forehead, in the mouth or in the axilla. The main purpose of a fever is helping the immune defense, because the multiplication of pathogens is restricted with high body temperatures. Fevers can be treated with anti pyretic medications available over the counter.