Posted by pseudoname on November 3, 2005, at 22:02:07
In reply to Re: pdoc wondered about fever, posted by katekite1 on November 3, 2005, at 20:38:23
> Makes you want to go hang out in doctors office waiting rooms to get exposed to something
I remember from my grandmother's medical problems that conditions other than infection can trigger fever, so maybe there's another way.
I just read that in infection, the cytokines in linkadge's study are thought to *somehow* get a message to a regulator in the anterior hypothalamus. Perhaps they enter the brain by means unknown – OR they may activate something in the peripheral vagal nerve, which then gets the message through.
Maybe I should reconsider Vagal Nerve Stimulation.
(What we don't know about fever: http://jp.physoc.org/cgi/content/full/526/3/470)
And Kate, I completely forgot to ask my pdoc about the thyroid thing! Next time.
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