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Why Does It Mean When A Person Gets Chills And Is Cold
Flight or Fight: As you've indicated "goose bumps" occur in response to cold as your body's way of generating heat. But this reaction (piloerection) also occurs in response to strong emotion. Fear for ex. Stimulates the sympathetic nervous system which causes the smooth muscle at the base of hair follicles to contract resulting in "goose bumps". Rarely, goose bumps are associated with medical disorders. ...Read more
Hormone surges: During pregnancy the part of the brain called the hypothalamus is working "overtime" to send messages to the rest of the body to produce the necessary large quantity of hormones needed for the pregnancy. This secretion is "pulsed" and not sent in a continuous manner. The hypothalamus is notably also responsible for "temperature regulation", thus "chills & goosebumps", if no infection present. ...Read more
Body temperature: Feeling cold or warm requires that there be a differential between the environmental temperature and your body surface temperature. For instance, after eating a large meal, distribution of blood flow to your core may deprive the surface of relative amounts of blood and allow you to feel cool. Changes in endocrine functions may also be involved, like hypothyroidism. ...Read more
Wrong pH: Recurrent BV is usually due to a vaginal basic ph. You treat the bacteria and the make the vaginal ph acidic with vinegar douching followed by probiotics by mouth. Consider probiotic tabs or danactive or activia yogurt orally. These have acidophillus that will colonize the vagina. ...Read more
Normal: This is normal response and means nothing. ...Read more
Thyroid: This is a premiere symptom of low thyroid activity, and you might have this checked out by your doctor. ...Read more
Not much: In and of itself, not nuch, if it persists, or if you develop other symptoms, see your doctor. ...Read more
How old?: And what other symptoms does baby have? If it is just a mild fever without other apparent issues the baby will, in all probability, recover uneventfully from a viral illness. If, however, other symptoms arise, the baby is acting quite differently than normally or you are overly concerned, suggest a visit to family doctor or pediatrician. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Serious symptom: If you are forty and have been a smoker of ten to twenty pack years and you don't have acute bacterial bronchitis and you know you coughed it up and are not blowing it out of your nose, you should get a chest x-ray. If there is any suggestion of lung cancer on chest x-ray you should get a ct chest and a bronchoscopy, if you have a bacterial bronchitis and you cough up blood 2 or 3 times and you. ...Read more
Over doing: May be you went beyond your level of capability over doing can cause can cause low BP which is probable cause for the feeling. ...Read more
Fever & sore throat: You likely have an infection. Could be viral or bacterial. For viral infection, we treat these with supportive measures, like increasing fluid intake and vitamins. For bacterial infections we do the same, but if severe enough, you may need antibiotics, but usually just for strep. ...Read more
Many things: It could be a urinary tract infection, though usually your labia aren't sore. But it could also represent a sexually transmitted disease, though I'm not sure what your risk factors for this are. There are also other forms of urethritis/vulvitis that could give you the reported symptoms. You should seek an inperson evaluation to be more accurately diagnosed and treated. Good luck. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
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