Fever
A very common illness or discomfort which can happen to anybody due to various reasons. It might be due to a very tiring day a bad lunch or many other reasons. In this topic, we will see what exactly is fever or how we describe it in medical terms. So the body temperature which is controlled by the hypothalamus when goes out of the ordinary we get a discomfort feeling which people call fever. So how is the body temperature controlled by the hypothalamus? Neurons in both the anterior and posterior hypothalamus receive two kind of signals : 1. One from the peripheral nerves ie. the warm and cold receptors of the skin. 2. Second from the temperature of the blood bathing the region of the body. These two signals get integrated by the thermoregulatory center of the hypothalamus to maintain the normal temperature of the body. When the body is in neutral temperature the metabolism of the body produces more heat than necessary which in turn maintains the body temperature at almo...