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    The document discusses different types of fevers: 1) Continuous fever that does not drop below normal within 24 hours but with fluctuations of less than 1 degree. 2) Remittent fever that does not drop below normal within 24 hours but with fluctuations of more than 2 degrees, often caused by bacterial infections. 3) Intermittent fever that is only present at certain times of day, including quotidian fever (daily), tertian fever (every other day), and quartan fever (with fever every third day).

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    The document discusses different types of fevers: 1) Continuous fever that does not drop below normal within 24 hours but with fluctuations of less than 1 degree. 2) Remittent fever that does not drop below normal within 24 hours but with fluctuations of more than 2 degrees, often caused by bacterial infections. 3) Intermittent fever that is only present at certain times of day, including quotidian fever (daily), tertian fever (every other day), and quartan fever (with fever every third day).

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    FEVER Hanif

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    Hanif Gandoh
    The document discusses different types of fevers: 1) Continuous fever that does not drop below normal within 24 hours but with fluctuations of less than 1 degree. 2) Remittent fever that does not drop below normal within 24 hours but with fluctuations of more than 2 degrees, often caused by bacterial infections. 3) Intermittent fever that is only present at certain times of day, including quotidian fever (daily), tertian fever (every other day), and quartan fever (with fever every third day).

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    MOHD HANIF GANDOH

    131303241, I2
    Fever : elevated body temperature >37.8 orally or >38.2 rectally
    Hyperthermia : elevated body temperature that is not caused by a
    resetting of the temperature set point in the hypothalmus.
    Hyperpyrexia : temperature > 41.6
    hypothermia : temperature < 35
    Low grade fever : temperature rises to 38 to 39
    1) Continous fever : doesnt touch the normal within 24 hr but fluctuation is less than
    1
    2) Remittent fever : doesnt touch normal within 24 hrs but fluctuation is more than
    2. eg Bacterial infection
    3) Intermittent fever : present only in certain parts of a day
    Quotidian fever : Paroxysms of intermittent fever occur daily , eg falcifarum
    malaria
    Tertian fever : occurs on alternate day. eg vivax malaria
    Quartan fever : attacks of fever occur with afebrile periods of two days in
    between. eg : plasmodium malaria
    4)Pel Ebstain fever : increases and persists for few days(3-10 days) followed by an
    afebrile pweriod. eg Hodgkin's
    5)Relapsing fever : Few days of fever followed by days of afebrile state and then
    again fever relapses. eg Borrelia infection , leptospirosis
    6) step ladder fever

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