Why can your body raise your temperature to deadly heights when having a fever?

Question

Hello everyone!

So as I understand it, your body starts to heat up to slow down the reproduction of bacteria in your body, thus resulting in a fever.

But how come that you can die of a fever? Does the body not know when to stop heating up?

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Answer 1

So, if the body is supposed to increase fever to fight off bacteria- then shouldn’t we let a fever get to 102 or something like that, before taking Tylenol or aspirin ??