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What Causes Fever?
Question: Hi Doctor,
My brother is having fever for past 5 days. We have taken some test too. But doctor's are saying all are normal. I have attached the report, could to double confirm it
My brother is having fever for past 5 days. We have taken some test too. But doctor's are saying all are normal. I have attached the report, could to double confirm it
Brief Answer:
Could be bacterial infection
Detailed Answer:
Hi and thanks for your query.
The polymorphs are higher in number and seem to be due to some bacterial infection. Can also be viral. The report should be corelated with symptoms. Thus let me know if your brother has any symptoms.
Hope it helps.
Dr Vaishalee
Could be bacterial infection
Detailed Answer:
Hi and thanks for your query.
The polymorphs are higher in number and seem to be due to some bacterial infection. Can also be viral. The report should be corelated with symptoms. Thus let me know if your brother has any symptoms.
Hope it helps.
Dr Vaishalee
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Vaishalee Punj
thanks for your reply.
To be explain more this, here are the few symptoms. from morning till evening everything is fine but after 5 o clock body temp started getting increased. Today evening he s having a fever of 102'C. also at that he s having severe head ache with high sweating.
To be explain more this, here are the few symptoms. from morning till evening everything is fine but after 5 o clock body temp started getting increased. Today evening he s having a fever of 102'C. also at that he s having severe head ache with high sweating.
Brief Answer:
Typhoid fever is a possibility
Detailed Answer:
Hi again
Evening rise of temperature, sweating are suggestive of typhoid. But can also be other conditions like lung infections (tuberculosis etc), maybe malaria.
Thus I would suggest that he gets more investigations done to rule out these conditions. The tests can include typhidot or widal, rapid malaria test, chest x-ray and urine complete examination.
Dr Vaishalee
Typhoid fever is a possibility
Detailed Answer:
Hi again
Evening rise of temperature, sweating are suggestive of typhoid. But can also be other conditions like lung infections (tuberculosis etc), maybe malaria.
Thus I would suggest that he gets more investigations done to rule out these conditions. The tests can include typhidot or widal, rapid malaria test, chest x-ray and urine complete examination.
Dr Vaishalee
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Vaishalee Punj
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