Showing posts with label temperature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label temperature. Show all posts

Temperature recording and fever

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Normal body temperature and its variations Normal temperature regulation in the body How will you record the body temperature ? W...

What is meant by fall by crisis or lysis in fever ?

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Fever can subside in the following ways Crisis Elevated body temperature settles down to the baseline value immediately after starting...

What is pyrexia of unknown origin (puo) ?

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It is also known as fever of unknown origin (PUO). Definition of PUO (by Petersdorf and Beeson. 1961)  Fever higher than 101°F on se...

What is periodic fever?

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There is periodic attack of fever alternating with a period of apyrexia.This is seen in  Pel Ebstein temperature in Hodgkin lymphoma ...

Appearance of rash in a febrile patient

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This article shows temporal association of rash and fever 1st day fever -Chicken pox  Rash appear in the first day of fever  vesicles ...

Relative bradycardia and relative tachycardia

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It is known that with every degree (1°F) rise of temperature, the pulse rate is increased by 10 beats/minute. Relative bradycardia In ...

What are the causes of hypothermia ?

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Hypothermia can be caused by Myxoedema coma. Prolonged exposure to cold (in street beggars, accidental or in mountaineering). Periphera...

Causes of Herpes labialis (fever blisters) with pyrexia

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These are painful and tender vesicles on the outer surface of lips, and is commonlv observed in   Acute lobar pneumonia (often gives clu...

What is hectic temperature ?

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In hectic fever there is a big swing in the body temperature and the temperature rises with chill and rigor, then it persists for few hou...

Fever with patch or membrane in the throat

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Fever with patch or membrane seen in the throat in the following conditions Acute follicular tonsillitis. Candidiasis. Diphtheria. A...

What is chills and rigors?

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Chill is a sensation of cold which occurs in most of the fevers. The normal body temperature is maintained in health by the balance betw...

What is febrile convulsion ?

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Young children often develop seizures during the febrile illness and these are short, generalised tonic clonic convulsions. The charact...

What are the features of enteric fever in its first week?

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Following are the features of enteric fever in the first week Step-ladder pattern of pyrexia. Frontal headache. Constipation. Anore...

What is factitious fever ?

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Occasionally some patients purposefully show false elevations in body temperature. These patients are usually young women, often they are ...

What is drug fever?

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Drug fever has the following clinical features. Drug induced fever is a prolonged fever and it may belong to any febrile pattern giv...

What are the causes of aseptic fever ?

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In aseptic fever the rise in body temperature is not due to infection. Aseptic fever can occur secondary to the following causes  Hea...

What are effect of fever on body?

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Fever can have effect on various systems in the body Effect on cardiovascular system With every 1°F rise of temperature above 100°F th...

Normal body temperature and its variations

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Normal body temperature is 36.6 to 37.2 or 98 to 99 degree farenheit What are the alteration in body temperature? The normal diurn...

How will you record the body temperature ?

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You should always measure the body temperature as a part of initial clinical examination. What are the preferred sites of recording of te...

Normal temperature regulation in the body

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Normally heat is being continuously produced in the human body, and also is being lost continuously to the surrounding environment. The pe...