Does cirrhosis cause fever?

Cirrhosis may cause fever, which is generally irregular and low grade. Cirrhosis generally refers to the development of chronic liver disease, characterized by chronic inflammation of hepatitis, diffuse fibrosis, regenerative nodules and other pathological stages. Due to the poor immunity of patients with cirrhosis, it is easy to combine with infections; in addition, cirrhosis combined with complications can also cause fever, and its fever generally belongs to the irregular low fever. Fever caused by liver cirrhosis can be physically cooled down, such as warm water bath, alcohol wipe, etc. If the effect of physical cooling is not good, and the body temperature is more than 38.5 degrees can be considered to be treated with drugs. If cirrhosis patients have fever, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, by the doctor according to the condition of the diagnosis and treatment plan, so as not to avoid delaying the condition.