11 PRACTICAL TIPS ABOUT FEVER


11 PRACTICAL TIPS ABOUT FEVER


1) Fever with chills and rigors unless proved otherwise is malaria, urinary tract infection or filaria.

 2) Malaria chills are usually in the afternoon and filarial chills are usually in the evening.

 3) Malaria fever patients invariably will be non-toxic in between fever attacks, while typhoid patients will be toxic.

 4) Fever with single episode of chills unless proved otherwise is pneumococcal pneumonia.

 5) Abrupt high grade fever with pain in eye movement is dengue.

 6) Fever with pain in joints, which improves with flexion is Chikungunya.

 7) In viral hepatitis, jundice will always appear after fever subsides. If patient has fever and jundice together, look for other cause.

 8) In SLE fever, patients will always have negative CRP. Positive CRP, look for associated TB.

 9) Evening rise of fever lasting more then 6 weeks invariably is TB. These patients may have mild derangement of SGOT and SGPT.

 10) In dengue, capillary leakage syndrome starts only after fever subsides.



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