Cotton fever

• Mimics sepsis in patients who inject drugs and filter those drugs through cotton balls
• Self-resolving fevers, leukocytosis, myalgias, and nausea/vomiting

Further Reading

• "Cotton fever": A benign febrile syndrome in intravenous drug abusers. J Emerg Med. 1990;8(2):135-139. doi: 10.1016/0736-4679(90)90222-H.