Can cervical spondylosis cause fever

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Grandfather Zhang has been suffering from cervical spondylosis recently. His neck is often sore and very uncomfortable. He also has fever of unknown reasons, which has lasted for many days. I don't know if it is caused by cervical spondylosis. Now let me tell you whether cervical spondylosis can cause fever.

Can cervical spondylosis cause fever

First, simple cervical spondylosis does not cause fever. Fever of unknown origin (POU) is a difficult disease in general internal medicine, which mainly involves the determination of etiology. The possible causes should be investigated one by one, including various chronic infections or infectious diseases, rheumatic immune diseases, blood diseases, tumors, endocrine diseases, etc.

Second, there are five types of cervical spondylosis, including spinal cord type, nerve root type, sympathetic nerve type, vertebral artery type and mixed type. If we want to find out the cause of fever, we should first consider the upper respiratory tract infection of cold, and also exclude the infection of other parts, such as digestive tract, urinary system and even skin and soft tissue infection. If there is a long-term low fever, specific infection such as tuberculosis should be investigated.

Third: therefore, for patients, they generally need to be hospitalized in the Department of general internal medicine or the Department of infection for follow-up. Fever does not subside, there must be a reason, but due to the stage of disease development and inspection means, technical conditions, not found in time.

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Simple cervical spondylosis generally does not cause fever. If patients with cervical spondylosis often have fever of unknown reasons, it is generally necessary to consider some other reasons. At this time, it is suggested to go to the hospital to clarify the cause.