When our body temperature is high, why do we feel cold?

Question

I was recently sick and my body temperature was 38.6°C. It felt like I was in a refrigerator.
So, why do we feel cold when we have a high body temperature? Shouldn’t we feel hot instead?

In: Biology

Answer 1

So this is kind of backwards. When you’re sick you don’t feel cold because your body is hot; your body gets hot because you feel cold. Your mind tricks your body into feeling cold so that it goes into overdrive heating you up, in an effort to kill off whatever is making you sick.