Fever with chills

Introduction Fever with chills refers to the symptoms of the body's pathological body temperature accompanied by chills due to illness.

Cause

Common in lobar pneumonia, sepsis, acute cholecystitis, acute pyelonephritis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, leptospirosis, malaria, acute hemolytic disease.

an examination

1. Pulmonary CT.

2. Lung tissue biopsy.

Differential diagnosis

(1) fever with eye congestion

Common in measles, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, typhus, etc., similar to rabbit eye performance.

(2) fever with bleeding

Common in severe infections and blood diseases. The former such as severe measles, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, dengue fever, viral hepatitis, typhus, sepsis, infective endocarditis, leptospirosis. The latter are acute leukemia, acute aplastic anemia, malignant histiocytosis.

(3) fever with lymphadenopathy, accompanied by tenderness

May be caused by a local infection. Such as systemic lymphadenopathy, suggesting that there may be lymph node tuberculosis, leukemia, lymphoma, metastatic cancer.

(4) fever with joint swelling and pain

Can be seen in sepsis, scarlet fever, brucellosis, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, connective tissue disease, gout and so on.

(5) fever accompanied by rash

Common in rash infections. Such as measles, scarlet fever, etc.

(6) fever with cough, expectoration, chest pain

Common in respiratory diseases.

(7) fever accompanied by abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting

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