calories burned with mild fever

sunilshah123
sunilshah123 Posts: 14 Member
edited September 20 in Chit-Chat
I am lying in bed filling out mfp as I have flu or something not good. I am thinking with a fever I should surely be burning more calories than normal? Anyone have any data?

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  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    If you don't normally lie about in bed, then you are burning less calories.
    If a fever burns more calories than normal body temperature, then it probably nets out with the lack of motion.

    Feel better soon. :flowerforyou:
  • Nikiki
    Nikiki Posts: 993
    it would appear you will:

    "...sickness, fever and infections increase your metabolism by about seven percent for each degree the body temperature rises above 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit..."

    http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/nutrition_articles.asp?id=736

    hope you feel better soon, & you drop an lb or 2 in the meantime!
  • sunilshah123
    sunilshah123 Posts: 14 Member
    Let the fever rage I say so I can loose more weight in that case :explode:
    Starting to feel a bit better now though.
    Perhaps I could prolong the illness by walking outside in the cold and rain (UK - normal weather).
  • smith6ar
    smith6ar Posts: 5
    I spent all last night with a fever and ended up losing quite a lot more than I would normally have. Now that I'm feeling a bit better, we'll see if I "even out" for tomorrow.
  • weeblex
    weeblex Posts: 412 Member
    Wow found this old post, heating my body by 3 degrees has to be burning more calories

    Bring on the weightloss
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