Why do fevers give you chills?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
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🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:05.3 | Answering those questions that make you go, um, um, um, moment of, comes to you from APM Studios. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm Anna Weggle, and I love scary movies. |
| 0:31.6 | Um. |
| 0:33.5 | I like to put a scary movie on, curl up on the couch with a blanket, eight big fluffy pillows, and a giant bowl of snacks. |
| 0:43.0 | I love the slow, creepy parts, like in Run Home when the main character is trapped in a haunted ballpark, and he looks up and the ghost of an angry hot dog vendor is right behind him. |
| 0:55.9 | Or, my very favorite thriller, Duck, Duck Ghost, the scene where the where duck gives me chills. I think that's what I |
| 1:03.7 | like most about scary movies, the chills that go up and down my spine. But not all chills are fun. |
| 1:10.3 | Like when I have a fever, sometimes instead of |
| 1:12.5 | feeling hot, I feel so chilly. I want to climb under a whole pile of quilts. Weird, right? |
| 1:19.2 | You know, my friend Nico was just asking about this. Why do fever sometimes give you chills? |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah, when we get fever or if our body temperature goes up, we will feel cold. Isn't that interesting? |
| 1:35.3 | I am Joe Alcock, M.D. |
| 1:38.3 | I am a professor of emergency medicine at the University of New Mexico, and I work in the ER there and I also do research. |
| 1:47.0 | And I'm interested in how evolution affects health and disease. |
| 1:51.7 | When we get sick, our bodies change our internal thermostat |
| 1:55.9 | so that our body temperature actually goes up. |
| 1:58.8 | If a normal body temperature is thought to be about 98.6 degrees |
| 2:04.2 | Fahrenheit, a fever would be over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, 100.3, or 101, or 102, or even hotter than that. |
| 2:14.3 | And this is something that I see when I take care of patients who have |
| 2:18.5 | infections in the emergency room that a lot of times they'll say, doctor, I feel cold. Can you bring me |
| 2:25.5 | another blanket? And I'll say, well, you already have three blankets on you. Why would you need another |
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