What exactly makes you hot during a fever, and what is happening when a fever “breaks”? Why do you not sweat during the fever but do sweat when it breaks?
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From my limited understanding it’s something like this:
-Your body constantly heats up, it just has a built in thermometer that tells it to cool down if it’s too hot. (For example, if the body gets above 37.5°C it should start sweating)
-During a fever, your built in thermometer changes so that it starts cooling down at a higher termperature. (So it doesn’t sweat at 37.5°C but instead only starts at 38.5°C)
-During a fever break, your body thinks it has finished killing the invaders, so it goes back to normal function (so you start sweating at anything above 37.5°C again), but your body was at 38.5°C from the fever so it cools down very fast since it’s way higher than it should be.
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