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Abstract
Some women report that they have fewer hot flashes when they have a fever. This is
the first case of physiological monitoring of hot flashes during fever in a subject
with a well documented pattern of frequent hot flashes when afebrile. During fever,
there were fewer hot flashes than during afebrile periods, and these hot flashes also
tended to be less intense. For most of the period of reduced hot flashes, internal
(core) temperature was elevated, above 37.5°C. When the fever broke, hot flashes resumed
in a pattern similar to that of afebrile periods. Possible explanations for the reduction
in hot flashes during a fever include: (1) a hot flash is triggered, but the characteristic
physiological changes do not occur due to competing thermoregulatory drives, (2) the
febrile core temperature inhibits whatever it is that triggers a hot flash; or (3)
some product of the fever process inhibits the hot flash trigger or masks the physiological
changes that occur during hot flashes.
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
December 12,
1991
Received in revised form:
November 25,
1991
Received:
August 27,
1991
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© 1992 Published by Elsevier Inc.
