(ORDO NEWS) — It turns out that the temperature of a healthy person is not 36.6.
What home-grown doctors and couch experts consider to be normal is far from the truth. Read more about what a normal body temperature should be.
Everyone knows from childhood that a body temperature of 36.6 degrees is considered normal. We are used to orient ourselves on this indicator when we are sick and feel in good health. And what if it is not quite so?
It turns out that this indicator is individual for each person.
Body temperature varies depending on a number of circumstances: changes in the body, age, even the season can affect this indicator.
The indicator of 36.6 degrees is a generally accepted standard, which is very many years old. Scientists say that the average temperature of a calf can range from 36.1 to 37.2 degrees.
There are cases when a person is physically healthy by all indicators, but the temperature does not meet the generally accepted standard, for example, in young children.
For babies, the norm is a temperature in the range of 35.5 – 37.5 degrees. The thing is that children are more sensitive to hypothermia and overheating. Therefore, the body reacts in this way.
Older children and adults have a normal temperature of 36.4 to 37.6 degrees. In elderly people, this indicator is in the range of 35.8-36.9.
And doctors say that the thermometer should not be placed under the armpit, but in the mouth, under the tongue.
So you will get a more accurate measurement and faster. Measurements from the outside of the body are far from real indicators.
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