: Why does a fever flucturate when sick? I'm just getting over an illness now which came with a fever. I couldn't help but notice that the fever fluctuated drastically over the course of the illness, with me switching between

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Why does a fever flucturate when sick?
I'm just getting over an illness now which came with a fever. I couldn't help but notice that the fever fluctuated drastically over the course of the illness, with me switching between number of blankets/layers of clothes constantly.

I understand the importance of the fever in the immune response and why it occurs, but I'm curious why it would fluctuate so drastically. I would have expected it to stay at a certain constant 'high' for much of the illness, and only start to drop as I fought off the illness. I'm curious why the fever appeared to instead constantly vary throughout the illness.

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