Does a fever go away when you sweat?

Fever and sweating will take away heat because of the large amount of sweat excreted, so when there is sweating in a fever generally the body temperature will drop, which helps to reduce the fever. However, this does not mean that if you use drugs to bring down the fever or cover the sweating condition will be better, because if the cause of the fever is not removed, such as viral infection, bacterial infection is not effectively controlled. After sweating is only a temporary fever, the symptom relief appearance, its intrinsic pathogenic factors will lead to a new fever, and in the fever when using the method of sweating, easily lead to high fever, the risk of convulsions. The use of antipyretic drugs to reduce fever blindly can cause dehydration and electrolyte metabolism disorders in the body after repeated high fever and sweating, leading to a more serious condition that is difficult to cure. Therefore, only under the guidance of doctors, according to the cause of fever two-pronged targeted treatment, can help to really reduce fever, the condition of relief.