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How high can a fever be to cause hallucination?
4 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Few possibilities: Fever from causes like infections causes encephalopathy- toxic to brain from the infecting organisms like bacteria, viral (proteins), fungus crossing the blood brain barrier -a defense, down by fever. Also fluid and electrolyte changes in the body cause swelling of brain called odema. Eg: are the infectious &noninfec. Like drug fever, heat stroke.Local invasion of brain by infec. Organisms ->hallu.
Answered 5/4/2016
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Yes: Yes, people with high-grade fever, in excess of 104° do occasionally report hallucinations.
Answered 2/25/2015
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