Here’s how to distinguish a common low-grade fever from Covid 19 symptoms

For a year there has been talk of nothing but Covid 19, restrictive decrees and social distancing. Terror spreads unconditionally and every sneeze is an omen of bad luck.

In this context, the focal point is precisely fear. The fear of the other, the fear of illness, the fear of losing everything. In short, everything scares us. When something is attentive to our health, our alarm bell is activated and puts us on alert. For months we have been bombarded with information on the symptoms of Covid 19 and its consequences. The result is that at first temperature at 37 our heart leaps.

What fever?

That’s right, what fever? Yes, because they taught us that when the thermometer shows 37.5 degrees upwards we have to worry and it could be the cursed Covid. Well, actually and fortunately not all “fevers” are the same. There are cases, in fact, in which the body temperature could rise for causes that we would never imagine.

Let’s see what these strange causes are.

Here’s how to distinguish a common low-grade fever from Covid 19 symptoms

First, let’s try to give a definition of low-grade fever. This is a rise in temperature below 38 degrees, caused by very different reasons.

A primary cause of low-grade fever is the time of day. In fact, experts believe that our body reaches its highest temperature in the middle of the afternoon. It is therefore not recommended to take the temperature in the afternoon.

A second cause is sport. It goes without saying that when exercising, the body heats up and the body temperature rises. This elevation, indeed, can last even up to the hours following the activity, even if one is at rest. Therefore, if you have practiced sports three hours before, we could still be affected by the previous effort and the thermometer would therefore provide an incorrect measurement.

The cause nobody thinks about

So we come to the cause no one thinks of.

And which? The stress. In fact, we speak of stress fever to indicate a very frequent but very underestimated phenomenon. Fever is nothing more than the body’s reaction to external aggression, so it is likely that the explanation is precisely this. Perceiving it as a threat, the body reacts to stress by raising the temperature as a sign of “defense”.

In periods when you are very stressed, therefore, it is good to know that the result of the thermometer could be false.

Here’s how to distinguish a common low-grade fever from Covid 19 symptoms to avoid worrying unnecessarily.

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