Normal body temperature of children and adults is between 36.4 to 36.9 degrees Celsius, measured in axillary area. Sublingual and anus temperature may be 0.5 to 1 degree Centigrade higher. Prerequisite for axillary measurement is the skin is dry, and the thermometer placed close to the body for 10 minutes. Measurement of body temperature in the anus lasts about two minutes. Possibly a trial temperature is good to be at least 30 minutes after eating.
In infancy not seen who knows what drastic fluctuations in body temperature. By the end of the first year, there are some fluctuations of 0.6 degrees Celsius, the highest is at 17 hours, and the lowest - in the morning to 3:00 pm. Upon disease processes high temperature rises to 37 degrees Celsius armpit or above 38 degrees in the anus or mouth.
Body temperature is likely to increase immediately after birth due to imposed stress in the body. Under such conditions, can reach up to 37.8 degrees Celsius. Also the temperature can be increased when reheating newborn or any physical activity - crying, running, jumping.
However, there are some differences at the elevated body temperature. Hyperthermia is a condition in which the body temperature is increased in normal subjects after a strong heat effect. Hypothermia is a condition in which the temperature falls below 36 degrees. Usually occurs in hypothyroidism, Addison's disease, acute blood loss and poisoning. Fever is fever in disease processes by 0.5 to 1 ° C to 37.8 - low grade fever. Over 41.5 degrees condition called hyperpyrexia.
Under What Other Conditions Increases Body Temperature?
In the infectious disease is a normal temperature to rise due to the stress imposed on the body from invading bacteria and viruses. The condition called sepsis, or infectious mononucleosis. When sepsis develops severe general condition, septic values of temperature, increased volume of the spleen, skin bleeding, yellowing of the skin and accelerated of leukocytes and elevated sedimentation rate of erythrocytes.
In flu body temperature also raises. Typically the temperature rose sharply, and is accompanied by symptoms of fever. It also developed symptoms of pain in muscles and joints, including headaches. During the cold and cooler months of the year, such as winter and autumn are possible epidemic spread of viruses, which requires taking some preventive measures.
Congenital infections are another typical feature causing the temperature rise. Characteristic here is, however, that the increased body temperature is not a typical symptom. Often it is even possible to develop hypothermia. Usually the clinical picture of this type of infection is described by a low weight at birth, the increase in volume of the liver and spleen, jaundice, bleeding diathesis, where there is a breach in the blood clotting function of the body, cataracts, seizures and impaired consciousness.
Other diseases that children often provoke an increase in body temperature are croup, otitis media, sinusitis, acute bronchitis and bronchiolitis and pneumonia. In acute pneumonia increased body temperature is mandatory symptom and can often be the only one. Cough and respiratory failure with pronounced dyspnea develop in varying degrees. Upon physical examination of the patient by auscultation establishes noise finding that suggests available infiltrative process in the pulmonary tree. Also in the X-ray data of pneumonia are the most secure, which requires this study as a basis to show the disease.
ithout any prior information on the infecting organism. These are occult bacteremia that occurs with a clinical picture of sepsis, but it is not clear which is the door to infection. Also at the beginning of some of the specific infectious diseases may present with fever, without any other symptoms. Also in the urinary tract infection in infants, severe dehydration, when resorption of bruising, increased tooth or post-cure of infection also can meet an increase in body temperature of children.
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