Normal Body Temperature: The normal temperature of the body is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. However, the latest study by Stanford Medicine has revealed that everyone’s body temperature can be different. Things like age, gender, weight and height also affect the normal temperature of the human body. According to researchers, body temperature fluctuates throughout the day. Let us tell you that in many researches, mistakes have been made in the concept of normal temperature being 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Let us know what the new research says…
How was normal body temperature known?
The standard of normal human body temperature of 98.6 was created by German Dr. Karl Wunderlich 150 years ago. He had decided this after measuring the temperature of more than 10 lakh people. The temperature of all these people was found to be between 97.2 to 99.5. Whose average temperature was 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. In a recently published study, after checking the temperature of more than 1,26,000 people from 2008 to 2017, it was found that the average temperature of the human body is about 97.9 degrees.
What does the new research say?
According to Julie Parsonnet, professor of medicine, epidemiology and population health at Stanford, normal body temperature depends on the person and his condition. The normal temperature rarely exceeds 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. He said that there is a huge data of normal temperature of human body in the world. The average body temperature of the average American person has fallen by about 0.05 degrees from the norm of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit every decade since the 19th century. Now the average body temperature of most people is around 97.9 degrees Fahrenheit.
Normal body temperature of children
A study in 1868 found that men and the elderly had lower body temperatures than women and the young. Body temperature increased in the afternoon. Only after this the standard of average temperature of human body was fixed at 98.6 degrees. Doctor Lee Gordon said that medical grade fever starts only at a temperature above 100.4 degrees. The average body temperature of newborn babies is around 99.5 degrees. The average body temperature of children is 97.52 degrees.
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