Major Symptoms Of Pneumonia

Excessive Sweating

Pneumonia can manifest with the patient sweating excessively. When the immune system of an affected individual detects the pneumonia-causing pathogen initially, the body's thermostat is reset from 98.6 degrees to a certain point above 100 degrees. The body works its way up to this reset temperature through chills and making the individual feel cold so they will warm up with more clothes and or a blanket. Once the body reaches this high temperature, it makes efforts to maintain homeostasis at this temperature. This mechanism means the body doesn't want the temperature to rise above that point or fall below that point. To keep the temperature from going higher, the body initiates its cooling mechanism of sweating. Even though the patient's temperature has met the internal thermostat temperature, the temperature they feel doesn’t immediately change. They stay under the blanket or layers of clothes until they notice they are sweating. The process of the body warming itself up with shaky chills and then slightly cooling back down with sweating may occur a handful of times before the body has fought off the pathogen causing pneumonia.

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