why do you need to bring your temperature down?

Question

I read somewhere that the reason our temp rises when we are sick is to help out immune system. if so, why try to lower it

In: Biology

Answer 1

A normal fever doesn’t need to be brought down and has some value because the elevated temperature causes immune responses to function quicker and causes some germs to function worse. However, a very high fever is not a normal response and means that something is going seriously wrong in the body. Excessively high temperatures (over 104 degrees) cause the brain to begin to die, so the temperature needs to be brought down to prevent this.