Excessive stress can lead to an increase in body temperature.
Excessive stress causes sympathetic nerve excitation and an increase in the body’s basal metabolic rate, which leads to an increase in body temperature. As the basal metabolic rate gradually decreases, the body’s temperature will gradually drop to the normal level.
In addition, after exercise, emotional excitement, after a full meal will cause the body temperature to rise, but this temperature increase is physiological, generally through rest can be restored to normal.
Elevated body temperature can also be seen in pathological, this situation is mostly due to viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma, chlamydia and other pathogenic microorganisms, this time according to the cause of targeted treatment.