Posted: 2/29/2008 9:41:57 PM EDT
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Anyone else have a consistently low body temperature? Mine is usually around 97.0 degrees. Sometimes a bit lower. If it gets over 98 degrees, I feel feverish. |
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according to the literature 89.6 is full on hypothermia; shivering stops basic metabolism progressively slows down etc...at 82.4ish you die. secondary hypothermia is when a person as a lowered body temp due to medical reasons. one of the first rules of medicine is treat the patient not the machine, if they are 100% and have a body temp of a frozen worm it may be their normal, weird but normal. |
The guy I know, with the 87 degree temp, was backpacking through Northern Africa I believe, passed out, woke up in a foreign hospital with parts of organs missing ![]() From what I remember, he had real bad Malaria or something of that sort, his normal body temp hasn't been the same since. |
