Does sweating when your sick help you get better? Say in a bath or something?

Greetings. Sweating when you are sick is one of your bodies defense mechanisms against the things that try to infect you. Works well on many organisms like flu or rhino virus. Many diseases are temperature sensitive, which is why only certain creatures are attacked by them. If your body is invaded or infected by a foreign agent it can many times heal itself by changing its temperature to one the invading organism cannot tolerate. Note that often it is mentioned that when the fever breaks the patient is on the road to recovery. Also note that many countries like Finland use Sauna's to raise the body temperature to cleanse it when one is ill. Works a amazing number of times. a Sauna is only actually a artificial fever when you get down to it. Many people in the world use it and it is not addictive nor is it habit forming in a chemical way as too many medications tend to be. And sweat is one of the ways that your body gets rid of liquid agents that it wants to clear out of the body. Which is why sick people tend to smell different then healthy people do. So sweat, cleanse the body of unwanted liquids and fever to change the host temperature. helps at times.
Does sweating when your sick help you get better? Say in a bath or something?
if youre having a fever just put a wet towel on your head and take a nap drink plenty of water when you've sweat it all out you will feel alot better i promise
Does sweating when your sick help you get better? Say in a bath or something?
No, it's an old wives tale. Take some asprin or paracetamol, keep warm and rest. Hope you get better soon.
Reply:I like go into my shorts %26amp; t-shirt to cool off during the cold winter months if I am sick.





Then you get that cold feeling , so I am back to snuggling in my blankets if I get that sick cold.
Reply:Sweating helps to maintain the temperature of the body. When a person has fever he sweats due to high temperature of the body. Sweating helps to cool the body so as bath which cool down the body temperature. Sometime Ice bath is necessary.
Reply:No. Sweating may be a sequelae of being sick, ie having a fever, but it does nothing for the underlying process

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