febrile

febrile /feb·rile/ (feb´ril) pertaining to or characterized by fever.

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feb·rile (fbrl, fbrl)

adj.

Of, relating to, or characterized by fever; feverish.

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febrile

[fē′bril, feb′ril]

Etymology: L, febris, fever

pertaining to or characterized by an elevated body temperature, such as a febrile reaction to an infectious agent. A body temperature above 100° F (37.8° C), or 99.6° F (37.6° C) rectally, is commonly regarded as febrile. Compare afebrile. febrility, n.

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febrile/cold agglutinins test,

blood tests used to diagnose infectious diseases and some neoplastic diseases. The febrile agglutinins serologic studies are used to diagnose salmonellosis, rickettsial diseases, brucellosis, tularemia, and some leukemias and lymphomas, whereas cold agglutinins are found in patients infected by Mycoplasma pneumoniae, influenza, mononucleosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and lymphomas.

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febrile (fe·brīlˑ),

adj with a fever.

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febrile

(feb´rl),
adj pertaining to or characterized by an elevated body temperature. A body temperature of over 100° F is commonly regarded as febrile.

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febrile

pertaining to fever; feverish.

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Patient discussion about febrile.

Q. High Fever - is it dangerous? high fever over a long period can be dangerous. on the other hand it shows also that your body is working like Superman...

A. the heart surgeon knows, that if he touchs during a heart-operation this sparkle of 96°C, the patient will die. exitus for sure! the problem for the heart surgeon is, that he don't know why it is so. this is the big problem you can have with a doctor who don't know about such things. if you like to know more about this sparkle and why the patient dies, write me a mail and i will share with you a link to read about it. ask me if you don't understand me for what i try to teach you. FEVER is a healing-system nature gave us. Let it work naturally. don't make a tonsillectomy just because some do or because it is a fashion. think first about it. your tonsils have functions and we need them. they are not just decoration. my parents forced me to make a tonsillectomy because they were told to do so because i had many otitis. i would never do it to my kids. i have since 30 years from time to time pain there and i loose some blood. it hurts terribly when it is acute.

Q. Why is it hard to swallow when you have a sore throat? I was sick last week. I had a sore throat pain in my neck and fever. the most annoying symptom that i had was pain during sallowing. what is the source of that pain, and what can I do to ease it next time?

A. When you have an inflammation in your body, the sick area hurts when its palpated. when your neck is inflamed, you have a pain in the neck. when the inside part of the neck is inflamed you have tonsillitis.
When you eat something, it touches your inside of the neck, and if it's inflamed it will be painful.
The good news is that you can treat this pain in the same way you treat other inflammatory pain - hot (NOT boiling) tea.

Q. Does Isoniazid cause Lupus? I work in a Hospital and have been in contact with a patient who suffers from TB (tuberculosis). I was put under surveillance and now have to take Isoniazid in order to prevent developing TB. I read that this medicine can cause Lupus. Is this true?

A. Isoniazid can cause drug-induced lupus (DIL). However, there is a difference between DIL and systemic lupus. Systemic lupus is irreversible, whereas drug-induced lupus generally is reversible when the drug is discontinued. The symptoms of drug-induced lupus generally do not include kidney involvement or central nervous system involvement.