Adults have a fever of 37 degrees 5, which is a fever. Patients with low fever and low fever are divided into many situations. If they have exogenous symptoms, they can take some cold medicine at home. If they observe that their body temperature is normal for a day or two, there should be no big problem. If the temperature still does not drop for three or two days, you still need to go to the emergency department for medical treatment, so you may not be able to handle it at home.

If you deal with fever at home, you should first choose the physical cooling method, such as opening the window for ventilation in summer, lowering the temperature of the air conditioner, taking some cold water by yourself, or even using ice compress. Now the mainstream thinks that ice compress is not recommended because it is easy to induce convulsions and seizures.

You can also take some antipyretics at home, such as acetaminophen, and some Chinese patent medicines have such antipyretic effects. If you can't control your body temperature in three or two days after taking medicine or using the above methods, it is better to go to the hospital in time.

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In people's bodies, there are parts (cerebral cortex and hypothalamus) specially responsible for managing body temperature regulation, which we call the body temperature regulation center. It regulates the heat generation and heat dissipation process of the body through factors such as nerves and body fluids, so that the body temperature fluctuates within the normal range, so the body temperature of healthy people can remain relatively constant.

Some foreign or endogenous substances can act on the thermoregulatory center, disrupting the dynamic balance between heat production and heat dissipation, and the body will show fever. Medicine refers to these substances that can cause fever as pyrogens.

Of course, the dysfunction of the thermoregulatory center itself can also cause fever. According to the degree of fever (oral temperature), it can be divided into: low fever: 37.4℃ ~ 38℃; Moderate heat: 38.1℃ ~ 39℃: high heat: 39.1℃ ~ 41℃; Ultra-high fever: above 4 1℃.

Because the heat energy of the body mainly comes from skeletal muscle, the contraction of skeletal muscle is particularly strong under the action of pyrogen, so patients often have chills and chills before the body temperature rises, followed by high fever.

Fever itself is not a disease, it is only a clinical manifestation of a certain disease. When taking symptomatic treatment for fever, don't forget to make further treatment according to the cause of fever and go to the hospital for treatment if necessary.

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