• miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    40+ is where it gets really interesting, introducing the possibility of getting delirious with weirdly unsettling hallucinations.

    Don’t fuel them by watching TV is all I’m gonna say.

  • tweeks@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    It feels so weird to me that the small change in degrees might actually kill a virus. I mean, wouldn’t all viruses by now have become accustomed to “warmer climates”?

    Or is it a cat / mouse game, our bodies being able to heat up more and them getting more fire resistant by the year. Was a fever less hot a couple of hundred years ago?

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      9 months ago

      Heat resistance generally reduces a pathogens fitness at normal temps. The human body is also far more heat resistant than individual viruses thanks to being a big multi cellar organism with many expendable cells. A fever isn’t your only method of dealing with viruses either, you’re just stacking the deck against them do your immune system has a better time.

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    “I can’t survive above 38.0 C for very long as well.”

    OP must be weak. I had a fever above 38.0 °C for over a week once. Finally went to the hospital and my fever was gone by the time I arrived. Our bodies do some weird sh*t sometimes.