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Everyone at one time or the other gets fever may be high or low depending upon the infection or the disease. As we grow, we also start recognizing the symptoms of fever like body ache, headache, tiredness and fatigue. Generally, fever is considered to be an indication of body to let us know that we are getting infected or carrying a particular disease and its time to take care of the body. Normally, we have low grade fever which ranges between 100.4oF to 102.2oF and which is very common. Low grade fever can affect everyone from small child to adult and old people.
Causes of low grade fever
Different diseases cause low grade fever in our body. Some of them are given below:
- Mumps, measles and rubella are the diseases which cause infection in salivary gland due to which more often the children get affected by fever.
- Chicken pox, caused by virus is an infection due to which rashes appear on the whole body. In this viral infection the low grade fever is highly fluctuating causing more damage to the immune system.
- Many times if a wound is too deep, it can get affected with pus cells. Even a small wound becomes major problem if left unattended. In such cases, patients usually complain of low grade fever.
- Hepatitis is a very dangerous disease and if not treated in the early stages can be fatal. It is an inflammation and infection of liver which starts with low grade fever as initial symptoms.
- Strep bacterial fall out leads to the cause of rashes and scarlet fever in the body. This is a bacterial infection and since the rashes are very red the fever is called scarlet fever.
- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a disease solely related to women which can cause low grade fever. This occurs due to infection of fallopian tubes and internally located reproductive organs.
- Epstein-Barr virus can cause glandular fever or mononucleosis. The person in this case gets low grade fever right from the start and is persistent throughout the infection.
- Another low grade fever causing bacterial infection is Typhoid which is an infection of gastrointestinal.
- Leukemia or blood cancer is a very dangerous disease and has primary symptoms like low grade fever, dizziness and fatigue.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis affects and inflames the joints and in severe cases cause low grade fever.
- Sinus infection or sinusitis is a regular disease which is caused due to the inflammation of cavities placed behind eye and nose cavities. This is always accompanied by low grade fever.
- Flu is the regular contagious viral infection which is accompanied by low grade fever for particular time period like 3 days, 7 days or even 11 days.
- Dengue is also a very deadly infection which is first accompanied by low grade fever and if not treated well reaches the mark of high grade fever.
- Allergies too cause low grade fever, especially when the body gets rashes.
A low grade fever can be treated by treating the respective diseases and infections causing the fever. Although so as to control the fever doctors do recommend aspirin or ibuprofen.
i have low grade fever when i take rest it becomes normal 98.2 and it goes to 99.2 i am taking topcef 200 twice a day it has been know 6 days how many days i should take and when fever comes i feel on eyes and i feel weak and take rest it is ok