Shivering

This is one of the body’s temperature regulation reactions, where muscles shiver and a feeling of cold is experienced. Internal sensation of cold during fever. Usually, this organism reaction starts during an infectious disease, when inflammatory substances, having reached the body’s temperature regulation center in the hypothalamus through the blood, increase the body’s temperature threshold. The person feels cold, so heat production is stimulated in the body, shivering occurs, and body temperature rises.

Source | Author Doctor Nikas Samuolis, reviewed by Prof. Virginijus Šapoka | Vilnius University | Faculty of Medicine | Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Oncology