15 Non-Infectious Causes of a Fever Explained by Dr.Berg

Someone recently commented on my YouTube channel and they wanted to know what could be the causeof my fever. They got tested and there’s no infections, there’s no bacteria, viruses,yet they had a fever. So gave me an idea to create a video on all the potential thingsthat are not related to infections. Now, if it was related to an infection and it was a virus,then antibiotics are not going to work. And this is the problem. People are just jumping

the antibiotics, and then they develop antibiotic resistance. Did you realize that over 23,000 peopledie from antibiotic resistance every single year? And there’s also on top of that, 2 million peoplethat develop illnesses from antibiotic resistance. So we definitely have a problem with antibiotics.So if it is an infection, the body is trying to heat up. There’s certain sensors in thehypothalamus that control the temperature set point. And certain viruses tend to go into this

inactive mode when you actually turn up the heat. And also turning up the heat will kill off certaintypes of bacteria. So the best thing to do if you have a fever is actually to wear more clothes,get in bed and sweat to actually increase the temperature to speed up this process of killingoff the microbe versus just to take an aspirin or Tylenol and try to knock out the fever.now if you’ve done this for a period of time and it’s not going away there’s a couple things you

can do i put some links down below but especially for kids if they took calcium like calciumlactate it usually will help to speed up overcoming this fever pretty quick so let’s shift gears andtalk about all the reasons why you would have a fever that’s not related to an infection numberone autoimmune conditions probably because of the inflammation and inflammation can definitelyturn up the temperature in your body. Then we have trauma in general, and then various

inflammatory conditions like arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis. You can get a fever from that becausein that condition, you definitely see these swollen joints. But I will say that with rheumatoidarthritis, there is usually a low-grade infection going on. So I guess I probably shouldn’t put thison the list, but you probably wouldn’t consider it an infection. You would look at it more likearthritis. Okay, so number four, sudden shock to the body, which kind of goes along with this

trauma right here. It can actually start turning up the temperature in the body. And then we haveantibiotics. So one of the side effects of certain antibiotics is that you can get a fever.Number seven, a stroke, especially if there’s damage that is influencing the hypothalamus,which controls the set point for temperature. And then we have a brain tumor, especially ifit’s putting pressure on the hypothalamus. And then lung conditions, which are triggered by some

chemical, not necessarily in a microbe. And then you have a condition called ARDS, which is a typeof lung condition. And this stands for acute respiratory distress syndrome. This could betriggered by aspirin. I did a video on this, which was called the Spanish flu in 1918, when at thatpoint, doctors didn’t know that there’s a toxic level of aspirin. And they were giving certainpatients like 1,300 milligrams every single hour for 12 hours straight. And one of the side effects

of aspirin is this condition right here, basically drowned in your own fluid in your lungs. Number 10,an allergy can trigger a fever. Number 11, pancreatitis. Number 12, a gallstone. Interesting.Number 13, a kidney stone. 14, thyroid storm, where you have way too much thyroid hormone inyour body. And because the T3 increases your metabolism, it’s going too fast and it’s heatingup your body. Okay, number 15, gout. So these are all the things that could potentially increase

a fever. All right, thanks for watching. So if you want more knowledge on how to create a healthySubscribe now and get daily notifications.