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

We feel how the outside compares to the “target” temperature within our body. If outside conditions make you cool down from the norm, you feel cold, if they make you overheat, you feel hot.

When you get a fever, your body produces special chemicals that change the target temperature for your body. Your brain compares this new higher level with the current state of affairs and goes “oh crap, we’ve almost frozen to death, we need to heat up FAST” and you feel cold.