• tweeks@feddit.nl
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    9 months ago

    It feels so weird to me that the small change in degrees might actually kill a virus. I mean, wouldn’t all viruses by now have become accustomed to “warmer climates”?

    Or is it a cat / mouse game, our bodies being able to heat up more and them getting more fire resistant by the year. Was a fever less hot a couple of hundred years ago?

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      9 months ago

      It’s in the air if viruses are even alive, you’re giving them way too much agency in the matter.

  • Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Immune system to the infection: “If I die, I’m taking you with me!”

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    “I can’t survive above 38.0 C for very long as well.”

    OP must be weak. I had a fever above 38.0 °C for over a week once. Finally went to the hospital and my fever was gone by the time I arrived. Our bodies do some weird sh*t sometimes.

  • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    40+ is where it gets really interesting, introducing the possibility of getting delirious with weirdly unsettling hallucinations.

    Don’t fuel them by watching TV is all I’m gonna say.

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      9 months ago

      Last time I had intense fever dream was when I was a child. For some reason I never had another. As an adult, I would get sick with occasional high temperature but I would wake up immediately as soon as I sweat heavily.

  • CJOtheReal@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    When you get a infection in your eye (inide the actual eyeball) your immune system will kill both eyes and its irreversible…

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      9 months ago

      Why doesn’t this happen anywhere else? Cut your finger? Both hands get infected. Ingrown toe tail? Both feet hurt.

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        9 months ago

        there are actually a few other cases of this in the body and it’s because your eyes aren’t actually a part of your bloodstream so the eyes are treated as foreign objects along withthe others I mentioned being thyroid follicles ovarian follicles and sperm inside testicular ducts the last 2 being they only have one set of chromosomes so are biologically different to you