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At what point does a fever become worrisome?
What I mean is, what temperature above your usual body temp. do you consider high enough to consider yourself "sick?"
Yes, there is a debate over whether someone is being alarmist.
Re: At what point does a fever become worrisome?
this.
i was told a long time ago to add one degree to a temperature for the "full effect" since i normally run below normal.
I am just about the same. If I hit 98 to 99 then I am sick. My normal temp is 96.8
LOL!
Daycare takes kids with 99* "fevers". Give him a glass of orange juice then tell him to suck it up and go to work!
I've always heard that an elevated temp means you're fighting off something. I figure if it's still under 100, then my body is winning.
i agree jena! low-grade fevers mean your immune system is working.
for me it's less about temperature and more about the feeling i get when i have a high fever. the worst it's ever been for me as a grownup was when i had a reaction to the pneumonia vaccine a couple of years back. i was so extremely freezing cold/shaking and it hurt if you touched my skin or hair.
i think biologically, kids are made to better handle disease/fever/injury than adults. i can remember being super sick as a kid, but still wanting to watch tv or play, or being bummed out that i couldn't do something. i was bouncing off the walls a few hours before my fever went so high i starting convulsing and had to go to the ER (i was 4).
it makes sense. biologically, we need to make it to childbearing age so we can perpetuate the species, lol! after that, meh, get sick, biology doesn't care.
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Usually this for me, I normally run low so pretty much any fever means I'm actually sick. That said, I've had low grade fever off and on with the cold(s) I've had since Christmas and I don't really "feel" sick. Or maybe I don't remember what normal feels like.... hmmm...
For the kiddo, our pedi is pretty adamant that the number itself doesn't matter as much as how the child is acting and whether or not the fever responds to meds.
am i the only one who has no clue what my "normal" temperature is?? do ya'll take your temp every day or something? (i used to when i charted, but that was bbt)
if i'm "sick" enough to take my temperature, i'd assume it's usually 101+. but by that point, there's usually *many* other indicators as to being officially sick. in fact, i don't think i've ever taken my temperature when "sick" (as an adult)