Elevated temperature: definition, causes and help

Fever and high temperature – that’s the same thing, isn’t it? No it is not. We’ll tell you when doctors talk about an elevated temperature, what the causes can be, and why drinking a lot is one of the possible home remedies for treating this symptom.

When do you start to have an elevated temperature??

First of all, you should know that an elevated temperature is different from fever. But when exactly do you have an elevated temperature? By definition at a core body temperature between 37.5 to 38 degrees Celsius. 1

This is what doctors call the elevated temperature

Normally, as an adult, you have a core body temperature – the temperature inside the chest, head and abdomen – of 37 degrees Celsius. 1 Various causes, such as a cold, can lead to an increase in the core body temperature. This heating up of your organism sometimes leads to the symptom fever. But from when do experts speak of fever and no longer of an elevated temperature? Usually when the body temperature is above 38 degrees Celsius – So from a value of 38.1 degrees Celsius. 1

At what degree do you have a fever? (Medicine)

March 24, 2018

From how many degrees do you have a fever?

At a temperature of 37 degrees; do you speak of increased body temperature or is that still normal? When do you have a fever?

5 answers

Hey .. I am a nurse and as I learned in training, one speaks from 37.5-38 degrees of subfibril temperature (slightly increased) and from 38 degrees of fever. So at 37 degrees we wouldn’t do anything in the hospital, that’s completely unremarkable

Between 37.5 and 37.9 degrees Celsius body core temperature one speaks of subfebrile temperatures, from 38.0 of fever.

When is it fever? (Health)

March 23, 2018

When is it fever??

Hello says from when do you have a fever or already elevated temperature as an adult?

4 answers

You always talk about fever. But from when do you really have a fever, according to medicine. The following guidelines are given: at 25 ° C death due to hypothermia; up to 36.3 ° C lower temperature; 36.3 ° – 37.4 ° C normal temperature; 37.5 ° – 38.1 ° C elevated temperature; 38.1 ° -39.0 ° C mild fever; 39.1 ° – 39.9 ° C high fever; over 40 ° C very high fever and from 42.6 ° C death due to protein coagulation in the body. From these values you can now always know whether you have a fever.