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What is fever?<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

What is fever? In general fever is a raise of body temperature indicating that your body is dealing with an infection.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0There are many different statements out there about the different boundary values of fever temperature. The most common one is 38\u00b0 C. If your body temperature is rising over 38\u00b0 C it is said you are in low grade fever.\u00a0<\/span>The evolutional idea behind fever as a raise of the body temperature is simply to create an atmosphere inside your body where it is impossible for intruding germs to reside.<\/span><\/p>\n

The questions if you or your baby is in fever is not easy to be answered. It is all about definition and even experts are not even sure, if fever is really either good or bad for your body. But let\u00b4s figure things out. The more we know about fever, the better fever treatment decisions you can make. To know what is fever makes sense.<\/span><\/p>\n

Temperature deviation\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

Little children sometimes inherently got a slightly higher temperature, so that we talk about fever beginning with a temperature 38,5\u00b0 C. There are even ups and downs in core body temperature throughout a whole day. In the morning hours for example your temperature is 0,5\u00b0 C lower than in the evening. <\/span><\/p>\n

This should be considered when taking the temperature. Best Practice is to measure regularly to define an average temperature individually. Rising over a core body temperature of even 41\u00b0 C, we speak of hyperthermia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Measurement <\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

You need to know, that all of this values differ depending on where on the body this temperature was measured. In most cases those values refer to a rectal measurement with a digital thermometer, because this was the only measurement technique most people might use at home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on the measuring place you will get a different reading of the body temperature. This is due to the natural physiology of the human body. Normal temperature ranges by measuring place:<\/span><\/p>\n

Measurement method<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n