Why does a small increase in body temperature of 1degree put us into a fever state while we can adapt to higher temperatures on hotter days?
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Ok, we have to clarify a few things first. Your body maintains constant temperature, because it’s important for your internals. Even if it’s a hotter day, your body still tries to more or less keep this proper temperature, that’s why it’s important to drink a lot, because we need it to cool ourselves. If your body isn’t able to cool efficiently enough – you won’t feel well and can even end up in hospital. The second thing – it’s not that an increase in body temperature makes you ill, it’s the other way round. If you contract a disease, your organism rises the internal temperature to mobilize the immune systems to fight, all effort goes into fighting a virus/bacteria and that’s why you can feel tired. Of course fever can be dangerous itself if it gets too high (more than 40 C).
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