Fever 41 degrees, life threatening?


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A fever of 41℃ is a very high fever, which is relatively serious. However, whether there is a life-threatening condition depends mainly on the cause of the fever. If there are some intracranial diseases, such as encephalitis or blood system problems, it may cause life-threatening conditions. It is a relatively dangerous state. If only because of some common cold fever is mainly given antipyretic treatment, the most common complications is to show febrile convulsions, generally can also be reasonably controlled. Then fever to check the situation of blood, to see if there is a virus or bacterial infection, and then give symptomatic antiviral or antibiotic drug treatment, most fever can be antipyretic treatment. If it was encephalitis or myelopathy or a blood disease, it would normally be accompanied by coma, breathing difficulties or mental disorders and other complications, which were life-threatening.