Can I smoke when I have a fever? The harm is immeasurable.

Tobacco contains nicotine, which is harmful to the human body. Frequent smoking can lead to many diseases and even be fatal. Studies have found that people should not smoke when they have a fever, otherwise it will make the condition worse and may also cause other diseases.

1. The harm of smoking to the throat

Smoking can cause throat cancer. Most laryngeal cancer patients are male. Otolaryngologists have found that most smokers have hoarse throats, which may be related to the tar in the smoke.

2. Harm of smoking to the heart and blood vessels

Studies have found that smoking increases the stickiness of platelets in the blood, which makes the blood easier to coagulate and thus easily forms blood clots in the coronary arteries. At the same time, smoking also increases the low-density cholesterol in the blood, which makes it easy for fatty substances to deposit in blood vessels and form coronary atherosclerosis. Smoking can completely block blood flow to the hands and feet, leading to amputation. Doctors' advice to smokers is: If you have high blood pressure, high blood lipids, heart disease or a family history of heart disease, you should stop smoking immediately.

3. The harm of smoking to the lungs

Smoking causes lung cancer. 90% of total mortality is caused by smoking. A person who smokes ten cigarettes a day has ten times the risk of developing the disease as a non-smoker. Smoking is the main risk factor for chronic obstructive bronchitis. Because smoking can cause the cilia of bronchial epithelial cells to become shorter and irregular, as well as movement disorders, reducing local resistance and making it easier to get infected. Smokers should have a chest X-ray every 3 to 6 months. If they experience symptoms such as dry cough, blood in sputum, chest pain, and fever, they should go to the hospital immediately for a sputum exfoliated cell examination.

4. The harm of smoking to the stomach

For people with gastrointestinal diseases, smoking can make the disease worse. For people with gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer, the healing of the ulcer will be slowed down and may even develop into a chronic disease. Smoking can stimulate the nervous system, accelerate the secretion of saliva and gastric juice, make the gastrointestinal tract often in a state of tension, and cause smokers to lose their appetite. In addition, nicotine can cause the blood vessels in the gastrointestinal mucosa to constrict and also reduce appetite.

5. The harm of smoking to bones

Smokers take longer to recover from broken bones than non-smokers. Smoking more than ten cigarettes a day will double the risk of pelvic inflammation. Most people with severe back pain are heavy smokers. This is because smoking reduces blood flow to the joint disc, causing the joint disc to degenerate prematurely. Smoking can cause arthritis. Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day will increase the risk of disease by 50%.