Do you ever experience hydrophobia accompanied by fever?

That’s strange! If you dont drink water, you continue being dehydrated. Talk to a doctor specifically about this problem, he could probably give you some medicine.

Well, Cujo, I think you may be confusing hydrophobia with aquaphobia, but I’m pretty sure that’s not a symptom of any physical illness.

But what do I know? I just dropped in because I can’t resist a rabies joke.

I don’t think that’s anything to worry about. I have never experienced this exactly, but I can relate: When I have a fever, I get a tingly feeling thinking about ice cubes on my skin. It is just my body anticipating the cold. Could what you’re describing be similar?

Thanks for educating me, @glacial!

@glacial Aquaphobia is a persistent and abnormal fear of water,here she experiences it only at times or when she has fever.

Hydrophobia is a symptom of rabies – when an animal shows an aversion to and/or cannot swallow water. It’s not actually a “fear” of water, as such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobia

The aversion to the sound of running water is one of the many forms that hyperacusis can take. Hyperacusis can result from a lot of things, possibly including whatever infection is at the root of the fever, or even meds.

Whoops. I just threw some root words together and called it a day. Didn’t bother to look it up. How did rabies corner the market on such a seemingly generic term?

Though I’m kind of glad I mixed it up because it answered another old question I’ve had: Why does rabies cause hydrophobia? I thought it meant a fear of water and never really understood that. But they’re actually referring to the combination of being really thirsty, but not wanting to drink water because it hurts their throat. That makes way more sense.

@longgone While I’ve never had this reaction to ice, I think the two are probably similar. (But that might be because I haven’t imagined ice on my skin while I had a fever.)

@thorninmud That’s an interesting theory. But it’s not just the sound.

Also, I can’t believe I forgot to add this to the details, but this concept is totally normal in my parents’ culture. It would be translated to scare/fear [of] water. Yet, I’ve never heard of anyone mentioning this phenomenon here.

Does putting a name to something put an emphasis on something that might otherwise be readily dismissed? Or does it create something that wouldn’t exist?

@fluthernutter “How did rabies corner the market on such a seemingly generic term?”

Hydrophobia was the original name for rabies. The term we use today came about years later.