Fever can subside in the following ways
Crisis
Elevated body temperature settles down to the baseline value immediately after starting treatment. This may be accompanied by diaphoresis, diarrhoea or diuresis.
- Acute lobar pneumonia.
- Rheumatic fever
- Enteric fever with intestinal haemorrhage or perforation.
- Adrenal crisis (seen in meningococcal meningitis).
- Septicaemic shock.
- Elevated body temperature settles down to normal in step ladder pattern in typhoid fever
