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What Causes Chills, Flushed Skin And High Fever?
For the last three days, somewhere around 4PM, I start getting chills and then my face starts to flush. My temperature then spikes to 103.4 and takes a while to return to normal, usually by 10 PM. Today, due to a cough I think, I have sharp soreness on my left side breathing, moving and to the touch. I have a doctors appointment in the morning, but this is really confounding me.
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Sun, 29 Jan 2017
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Hi, I had gone through your question and understand your concerns.
This is obviously infectious disease and you need medical attention. These are signsof systemic inflammatory response and you need to do tests to rule out bacteriemia and sepsis and then antibiotics should be started. less likely this may be allergy or autoimmune rash but further tests are required for diagnosis confirmation.
Wish you good health. Kindly regards
This is obviously infectious disease and you need medical attention. These are signsof systemic inflammatory response and you need to do tests to rule out bacteriemia and sepsis and then antibiotics should be started. less likely this may be allergy or autoimmune rash but further tests are required for diagnosis confirmation.
Wish you good health. Kindly regards
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