Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)
1 min readAug 24, 2020

--

If I’m not wrong, fever is a protective mechanism against infections. And the fever is only detrimental if it reaches 40°C and above. Whether symptomless people have a fever or not, I’m not sure as they are probably not tested for fever. But I think symptomless should mean no symptoms, so no fever.

https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/fever-can-hurt-or-help-depending-on-what-started-it-40ac0876105a

I think anything that causes substantial tissue injury will trigger fever. Immune cells and damaged tissues will secrete chemicals that act on the brain’s temperature regulation center to initiate fever.

--

--

Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)
Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)

Written by Shin Jie Yong, MSc (Res)

Named Stanford's world top 1% scientists | Medium's boost nominator | National athlete | Ghostwriter | Get my Substack: https://theinfectedneuron.substack.com/

No responses yet