Stress such as conflict between parents or violence in the home may make your child more susceptible to fevers with illness in comparison with children who do not experience the similar circumstances.
Recent study postulates that that children’s natural killer cell function, part of the body’s innate immune system, increases under chronic stress, not like adults, whose function is decreased.
The findings are derived from 169 diverse 5 to 10 year olds for 3 years. It involved seven visits after a gap of six months. Parents were offered digital thermometers and were asked to record their children’s health status every week and every time their children were ill.
Conflict in the household, parental anxiety and depression, parental poverty and unemployment, and violence in the home or neighborhood were among these stressful conditions.
The scholars now hope to figure out specifically which types of stress increase the frequency of illness and what biological processes control susceptibility to infections, which cause fevers.
