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, your body does temperature measurement based off of relative temprature between the environment and your skin. when your hotter, everything around you feels colder.

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however, in the case of sickness, its mostly phycological. The brain is trying to trick itself into getting even hotter so as to burn out the sickness.