why do we feel cold when our body temp goes up?

Question

you’d think it was the opposite, no? but every time we get a fever we start freezing.

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Answer 1

Your nerves don’t sense absolute temperature. They sense energy transference. So if your body temperature is elevated you’re going to feel that more compared to the air temp. Same is true if you have a normal body temp, you’re going to feel the cold intensify as the difference increases. If you engineered some circumstance where your body temp was 90 degrees and the air was 100, it would feel the same as of your body temp was 100 and the air was 110.