Dr. Hossam Mawafi, Professor of Critical Cases at the Faculty of Medicine, Kasr Al-Aini, confirmed that fever is one of the symptoms that justify an immediate visit to the doctor, because it indicates many diseases.
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Muwafi said during his “Rabbi Zadni Alma” program, broadcast on the Sada Al-Balad channel, that normal body temperature varies between 36.4 and 37.2 degrees Celsius.
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The ICU professor added that bacterial infection is not the only cause of fever, describing taking antibiotics when body temperature rises as a “crime”.
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He explained that high body temperature can have dangerous indications, such as liver disease, rheumatic fever, cancer and brain hemorrhage, urging them to go to the hospital, to find out the cause and determine the appropriate treatment, conducting tests and analyzes.
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