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Why do you get the chills sometimes when you have a fever?
I think it's an odd response to running a high temperature. Why do I get the chills sometimes and not others when I run a fever?
2 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Your body shivers to create heat in order to kill off whatever bacteria is in your body. This is why when you are sick you will often have a fever. Your body will try to kill off the bacteria with heat!
- Diane ALv 71 decade ago
Unfortunately the scientific answer to this is really complex & too complicated to go into here. It has to do with the substances the body produces (called cytokines) in response to an invasion. There are probably at least a few hundred of them. They do all kinds of different things, but some raise the temperature and other do physiological things that result in shivering. These substances (discovery-wise) are relatively new (in the last 15 years or so) and there is still much to be discovered.
Source(s): PA (masters thesis was on this).
