Common fever Symptoms and Causes

When your forehead feels hot enough to fry an egg, your body is shaking like Jell-O and your teeth are chattering it's hard to believe that fever is your friend.

But it is a fever isn't a disease. It's a symptom of an infection, typically caused by a cold or the flu. When you have a cold, for instance, your immune system signals to your brain that it needs more body heat in order to attack infectious cells, and your body temperature rises.


Symptoms

following are the signs that indicate the presence of this ailment:

• High temperature


• Headache


• Muscle ache


• Burning eyes


• Loss of appetite


• Coated tongue


• Excessive production of saliva


• Feeling of heaviness and nausea

Causes

Fever can occur as a result of infection, because of external injury, insect bite or poisoning. It must be kept in mind that fever can also be a symptom of many conditions, like bronchitis, pleurisy, tuberculosis, jaundice, malaria, measles or influenza.