What should you know about sweating after fever?

When the body is cooling after a raised temperature, sweat can help release heat. Damp clothing, a warm room, blankets, or fever-reducing medicine can add to the sensation. Sweating alone cannot show whether an infection has ended.

Pay attention to the overall direction: improving energy and appetite are reassuring, while returning fever, worsening cough, diarrhoea, rash, or increasing pain deserves medical advice. Respiratory illnesses such as [Common Cold](/conditions/common-cold/) and [Acute Bronchitis](/conditions/acute-bronchitis/) can have changing symptoms during recovery.

Change out of wet clothes, keep the room comfortably cool, and sip fluids regularly. Rest and avoid strenuous activity until you feel recovered. Check your temperature if you feel hot or chilled again, and record when sweating occurs and whether it soaks clothing or bedding.

Do not bundle up to force more sweating. If you have diabetes, kidney disease, are pregnant, or take medicines that affect fluid balance, ask a clinician how much to drink and which fever medicines are suitable.

Seek urgent help for difficulty breathing, chest pain, confusion, fainting, severe weakness, very little urine, or an inability to keep fluids down. Arrange a review if sweating repeatedly wakes you, fever returns, or you are losing weight without trying. A child who is difficult to wake or breathing unusually needs urgent assessment.

Ask whether the sweating fits the infection you are recovering from, whether you need an examination or testing, how to manage fluids, and which changes should prompt urgent care. Mention new medicines and any recent travel or sick contacts.