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What Causes A Warm Body With No Actual Fever?
The last two nights my son has woken up with his body being very warm but when i have taken his temperature it has only been 36 degrees , still worried i gave him some panadal , and within 1/2 an hr to an hr his body has cooled down . He still drinking and eating and has been great when he wake up later in the morning . Not sure if i should be worried or he is one of these people who have warm bodies ?
Mon, 22 Jul 2019
Hi,
Is there any chance that the thermometer could be miscalibrated or broken if it's electronic or something similar?
You could try another thermometer. But if the temperature is accurate and you are sure you are taking his temperature correctly I wouldn't give him any medication just because he feels "warm to the touch." There are variables at play that can mislead you into thinking somewhere is febrile or hyperthermic when in fact, they are normal. There's nothing wrong with encouraging lots of fluids (especially water) but I wouldn't give medications to lower temperature if it were my son. Using another example which I believe everyone is even more familiar with would be the person who feels cold or whose hands are clearly colder than anybody around them....yet they do not have lower body temperature on this basis.
The only thing you'd typically recommend to someone like that is if they feel cold, put a sweater or blanket on, right? There's no medicine that's going to correct that situation, right? Unless of course, there is something hormonal going on but then, again there'd likely be other symptoms and clinical signs of a problem.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Saddiq Ulabidin, General & Family Physician
Is there any chance that the thermometer could be miscalibrated or broken if it's electronic or something similar?
You could try another thermometer. But if the temperature is accurate and you are sure you are taking his temperature correctly I wouldn't give him any medication just because he feels "warm to the touch." There are variables at play that can mislead you into thinking somewhere is febrile or hyperthermic when in fact, they are normal. There's nothing wrong with encouraging lots of fluids (especially water) but I wouldn't give medications to lower temperature if it were my son. Using another example which I believe everyone is even more familiar with would be the person who feels cold or whose hands are clearly colder than anybody around them....yet they do not have lower body temperature on this basis.
The only thing you'd typically recommend to someone like that is if they feel cold, put a sweater or blanket on, right? There's no medicine that's going to correct that situation, right? Unless of course, there is something hormonal going on but then, again there'd likely be other symptoms and clinical signs of a problem.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Saddiq Ulabidin, General & Family Physician
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