3) Chills
It is a symptom that comes along with fever, and it is actually closely related to the development of fever. Patients usually experience chills when they have very high temperatures, and especially as the temperature reaches its peak. Chills is a common way the body has to create body heat. All infectious diseases release inflammatory mediators that reach the brain centers associated with body temperature. These brain centers increase the temperature threshold making the rest of the body believe it’s very cold and we need to create body heat. One of the ways to do this is by promoting jerking movements in the muscle tissue and transforming chemical energy into heat.
Similar to fever, a patient with shivers and chills will not likely be in an early phase of the disease. If you have fever and chills as a predominant symptom in kidney infections, it is very likely you have an ongoing and very aggressive colonization that requires immediate treatment. In most cases, both fever and chills are gone after a few days of antibiotic treatment.
