Related articles: Fever
Definition
Increase in body temperature above normal values (36.4 - 37.2 degrees). In relation to the thermal rise we talk about:- low-grade fever: if the fever does not exceed 38 ° C;
- mild fever: temperature between 38-38.5 ° C;
- moderate fever: 38.5-39 ° C; high fever: 39-39.5 ° C;
- hyperpyrexia: 39.5 ° -41 ° C
Possible Causes * of Fever
- AIDS
- amebiasis
- Hemolytic Anemia
- Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
- Brain aneurysm
- anisakiasis
- Anthrax
- Giant cell arteritis
- Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
- Reactive arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Gingival abscess
- Perianal abscess
- Lung Abscess
- Aspergillosis
- Babesiosis
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchiolitis
- Brucellosis
- Liver Calculations
- Gall bladder stones
- Kidney stones
- Headache
- Infectious Cellulite
- Chikungunya
- Bartolini's cysts
- Cystitis
- Cistopielite
- Sclerosing cholangitis
- cholecystitis
- Alitiasic cholecystitis
- Cholera
- Ischemic colitis
- Heat stroke
- chondrocalcinosis
- Hemorrhagic corpus luteum
- cryptococcosis
- croup
- dacryocystitis
- Dengue
- Diarrhea of the traveler
- Diphtheria
- Diverticulitis
- Meckel's diverticulum
- sickle cell
- Ebola
- Echinococcosis
- Ductal ectasia
- Pulmonary embolism
- Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
- Encephalitis
- Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE)
- Japanese encephalitis
- Infective endocarditis
- Non-infectious endocarditis
- Enteritis
- Hepatitis
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis D
- Hepatitis E
- epididymitis
- Erysipelas
- Sunburn
- Pharyngitis
- pharyngotonsillitis
- Lassa fever
- Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
- Marburg hemorrhagic fever
- Yellow fever
- Rheumatic fever
- Progressive Oxygenating Fibrodysplasia
- Cystic fibrosis
- Anal Fistula
- Fire of saint Anthony
- Gastroenteritis
- Viral gastroenteritis
- Giardiasis
- whitlow
- Gout
- Genital herpes
- Herpes zoster oticus
- hydronephrosis
- Impetigo
- Intestinal Infarction
- Pulmonary Infarction
- West Nile virus infection
- Influence
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Pregnancy hyperemesis
- Histoplasmosis
- labyrinthitis
- Laryngitis
- Leprosy
- Legionellosis
- Leishmaniasis
- Leptospirosis
- Leukemia
- Venereal lymphogranuloma
- lymphoma
- Listeriosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Malaria
- Cat scratch disease
- Chagas disease
- Kawasaki disease
- Lyme disease
- Whipple's disease
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Hand-foot-and-mouth disease
- Mastitis
- Mastoiditis
- Toxic megacolon
- Meningitis
- Pleural mesothelioma
- Myelofibrosis
- Myocarditis
- Miringite
- myxoma
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Mononucleosis
- Cooley's disease
- Crohn's disease
- Neuroblastoma
- Bowel obstruction
- omphalitis
- Orchitis
- stye
- Osteitis
- Osteomyelitis
- Ear infection
- Pancreatitis
- Panniculitis
- paronychia
- Mumps
- Pericarditis
- Peritonitis
- PFAPA
- pyelonephritis
- Pleurisy
- Polycythemia vera
- Rheumatic polymyalgia
- polymyositis
- Polio
- Pneumonia
- Pneumonia ab ingestis
- Porphyria
- proctitis
- Prostatitis
- Anger
- Cold
- Rhinitis
- Rubella
- Salmonella
- salpingitis
- Scarlet fever
- Schistosomiasis
- sialadenitis
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Sepsis
- Sixth disease
- Spherocytosis
- Shigellosis
- Septic shock
- Syphilis
- Silicosis
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Reiter syndrome
- Hemolytic-uremic syndrome
- Serotonin syndrome
- Parainfluenza syndromes
- Sinusitis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Tropical sprue
- Tetanus
- Typhus
- thymoma
- Subacute thyroiditis
- Adjoining twist
- Testicular torsion
- Toxoplasmosis
- tracheitis
- trichinosis
- African trypanosomiasis
- Tuberculosis
- Wilms tumor
- Cardiac tumors
- Smallpox
- chickenpox
- Zika virus
