Although the rise in body temperature may cause concern among parents, mothers of them in particular, the fever itself does not cause harm to the child's body, it may have been something useful to the body, they are expressed by the body, in some cases, the presence of inflammation of the AEA in a regions, and it confirms that it is his duty to fight it, or be the result of other causes less health importance.So, medical sources indicate that the rise in body temperature have healthy children, that is, who do not have chronic diseases, does not imply that something serious is happening in their bodies. But the high altitude stays in the child's body temperature is important because it may cause inconvenience to the child, or cause the exit of fluid from his body, putting him in a state of drought.
Normal temperature
The first practical and logical steps to take care of the child, the mother feeling that her child has a rise in body temperature, is a measure of body temperature to confirm the order. Let us review some medical facts about body temperature, and how they are measured.
Regardless of the ambient humans atmosphere in the environment where there is heat, the human body to maintain the body works in a temperature range that guarantees its work devices and users efficiently, while ensuring human comfort; in the sense that the environment in which there is one which may be of high temperature , the convergence of the fifty degrees Celsius, or be a low-temperature, close to thirty below zero, however, the body runs on "save" in the temperature inside a range between 36.1 ° C to 37.7 ° C.
This "save" process may mean that the body to cool itself when the one in the high-heat setting, or to produce heat when it is cold, one in the lower atmosphere. This is controlled by the center "heat officer" (Tyrmostat) located in the brain, which preserves body heat, and can not be body temperature rises unless it allows the "Thermostat" raise the number of natural heat of the body.
Adjust body temperature
And here it raises two questions: where it comes from body heat? And how to understand the changes in this heat?
First of all, the area "hypothalamus" Hypothalamus in the brain controls to "adjust the body" Thermoregulation, which is the natural area of the functions of control and control to save and produce body heat temperature. This ability to "adjust the body temperature," is one of the initial capacity of the organism in general, the ability to maintain body temperature, within a certain range, regardless of changes in the surrounding environment temperature.
This ability is different from the capabilities of living organisms on the "thermal adjustment" Thermoconforming, which enables some organisms live within the fluctuations of ambient temperature change body temperature live object itself, and therefore do not require an internal ability to regulate body temperature. In fact, possess the ability of an operation "adjust the body temperature," is one of the elements possess the capabilities of "balance" Homeostasis of the organism, ie capabilities to maintain a relative balance between a range of different influencing factors, which provides for the body moving the dynamic stability of the components of the internal environment elements of the body organism, which is the most important of all the capabilities of keeping the heat balance with the external environment.
Hence, if the body has the ability to this thermal equilibrium when exposed to higher temperatures for long periods, no longer than four hours continuously, or temperatures higher than 38 ° C in an atmosphere with high levels of moisture for hours, the body can not endurance, differ and has a thermal capacity of adaptation, and be prone to health disorders may threaten the safety of his life. And the element of moisture is important, as we shall see, because his relationship easily evaporation of sweat from the body surface, thus cooling the body.
The process of "tuning body temperature," requires the ability to produce internal temperature of the body at times, and also requires the ability to take out heat from the body at other times, so depending on the surrounding environment, body temperature changes. Aside from the complexities of scientific classifications of organisms to "animate cold blood" Cold - Blooded and "warm-blooded" Warm - Blooded, scientific and details relating to possess different abilities to acquire heat production, and the interaction with the surrounding environment temperature, the human body has the capacity to produce thermal energy, and the interaction with the surrounding temperature environments.
There are multiple mechanisms owned by the body to deal with the theme of "heat", and many still unknown to us scientifically about how to deal with body heat. Therefore, knowledge and awareness of some of the cognitive principles on this matter are very useful in the daily dealing clinical and non-clinical with the human body and perturbations heat, and know the truth about the effects of those changes, and is it harmful to all, or that there are some benefits to the body caused by high or low body temperature?
Heat production
We need to recognize the important headings: First Address: body mechanisms in thermal energy production inside, and the second dealing with the mechanisms of the body temperature difference, and control. In regard to heat production, the main source of the body's production of thermal energy is a vital chemical processes that take place within cells, cross-burning glucose, the production of water and carbon dioxide, and more importantly, the production of "AT Bay" ATP, or triple compound adenosine phosphate, which is an important element because it contains high-energy, and activate a number of chemical reactions inside cells. And this is the process of burning is expressed scientifically as "metabolism", or metabolism Metabolism.
It is worth noting that the food is a source of nutrients that are used in the production of energy, specifically carbohydrates, sugars, proteins and fats, which is important to deal with the body primarily as components perform specific functions in the body. For example, sugars carbohydrate elements is the main source of energy production, so we take them enough to be a source of energy production, and we take them above the need for energy production, the body is forced to be stored in the form of fat, as well as with proteins and fats that have jobs, and thus we take them enough for that, do not turn into a burden of the body is forced to store it.
There are other sources in the body to produce thermal energy, such as moving the large muscles in the body when the movement, such as moving the small muscles associated Bbesellat hair in the skin when they become chills and shivering with cold. In addition to this, there are thermal insulators, such as flogging and grease layer underneath it. On the other hand, there are several cooling mechanisms, which the body cooling the case of a body in a warm atmosphere, and the most important of perspiration on the skin surface and evaporation, producing cold a result of the evaporation of those.
So, which facilitates the activity of this cooling process two factors, namely, availability of a sufficient number of sweat glands in the skin, which is less than the number with age, or a little is their number in young children, which means low activity ability the body cool in hot weather in young children and the elderly, which means higher chances of suffering from high temperature atmosphere. The second factor the low percentage of air humidity around the body, because the high humidity means the difficulty of evaporation of sweat from the skin of water, and thus lower the body if the presence of cooling capacity in the high temperature and high humidity atmosphere.
Thermal disturbances
And disorders of body heat can be divided into three major cases.
- First case: Hypothermia low body temperature, such as the presence in the cool atmosphere with low body's ability to keep the body temperature warm as normal.
- Second case: Hyperthermia high body temperature with the work of organizing body temperature regime stay in the hypothalamus brain, or Thermostat Thermostat body temperature, on his usual, which is what is happening with the sun strikes, for example.
- Third case: the case of fever with high body temperature, but also increases the production of chemicals called "Baiarugen" Pyrogen, is working on the creation of a situation of Thermostat hypothermia work disorder, specifically the rise thermostats Thermoregulatory Index Set Point to become the natural heat less of the body than it should compatible with thermostats, which means that the natural heat of the body considers the case of the brain then cooler in the body, and thus the body works wrong, but it's true with thermostats requirements, to raise the temperature in the body! And so, then the patient feels cold, despite the rise in body temperature, chills and begin to move the muscles of the hair follicles to produce thermal energy, despite the rise in body temperature, and the need to cool the Sgunth!
Capillaries and vessels in the skin constrict Peripheral Vasoconstriction, in order to prevent loss of body heat, and make the patient feel more cold and begins to cover his body with more blankets to Atdvo! Examples of causes fever, and production of materials "Baiarugen", cases of microbial infections in which the microbes secrete substances can cause fever, cases of cancer tumors, and disorders of the body's immunity, which internally is the production of "Baiarugen" materials. Therefore, medical treatment for the second case for addressing the third case is different, despite the fact that both of the two rising body temperature.
Anti-inflammatory fever
In spite of the scientific controversies even today about whether fever feasibility or health benefit or not, it is no answer uncertain scientifically, but there are a lot of scientific evidence and the results of medical studies that observed that for fever speed up the demise of infections microbial, reduces rates deaths, which results support the theory that the fever is one of the ways the body defend itself, and that the rise in body temperature regulation in the brain index is meant the body in his attempts to overcome the microbial infections. Therefore, this change does not happen in regulating body temperature index in the brain in cases of sunstroke in which the body temperature increases. According also the results of those scientific studies that the interactions of the body's immune system components of cells and chemicals, are more activated by a rise in body temperature, specifically increasing the activity of white blood cells involved immunity, white blood cells involved eating microbes, reducing the effects of toxic substances produced by microbes, and increase the pace of production of immune cells, especially T cell T-cells.