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What Is The Cause Of Shivers, Cold And Fever?
68 male is shaking all over and is not cold or fever and just vomit. He says he has gas as well, he has had mutiple cancer sugery in past. The shaking last for 10 to 20 minutes about twice a day for the past two days. Last night he had a fever, now it happens without fever
Thu, 21 Aug 2014
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Shaking, fever are all symptoms indicative of release of prostaglandins in to the circulation. this could be caused more commonly by infections; bacterial, viral, parasitic (malaria) etc. Cancers are also known to destroy immune system and expose an individual to infections or due to high metabolic activity, cancers can also generate heat in the bodies of affected individuals.
In my opinion, it is imperative to meet a doctor and get screened for infectious causes and to rule out advancement of cancer.
Best regards
Dr Achuo
thanks for using health care magic
Shaking, fever are all symptoms indicative of release of prostaglandins in to the circulation. this could be caused more commonly by infections; bacterial, viral, parasitic (malaria) etc. Cancers are also known to destroy immune system and expose an individual to infections or due to high metabolic activity, cancers can also generate heat in the bodies of affected individuals.
In my opinion, it is imperative to meet a doctor and get screened for infectious causes and to rule out advancement of cancer.
Best regards
Dr Achuo
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