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The annoyingly stupid part is that for most fevers that don't approach the "You need to go to the ER right now" point it's actually best to simply let it run it's course and not try to "break" it with drugs since a fever is your body's own defense mechanism.
But these antivaxxers will do this stupid shit, then go "see it works" and then try to apply it to everything else
102.6 in an infant was er territory I thought
For infants it is usually recommended to seek treatment from your pediatrician for a temp over 100.4°F. (See link)
Gotta love that metric-conversion decimal dust.
100.4 F is 38 C which is the actual measurement.
In defense of Fahrenheit, the resolution for human relevant temperatures is higher. Theoretically ideal for medical settings.
But not if you use whole number Celsius and just convert to Fahrenheit.
You are correct… kind of. It’s a weak defense because you can always use a decimal to get more precision, and thermometers are only so accurate in their measurements anyway.
You can do about as well with increments of 0.5 degrees Celsius as you can with whole degrees Fahrenheit, and most medical thermometers are only accurate within about 0.1° – 0.3° C anyway.
Yeah above 100 is doctor visit time, be it in C or F
In Celsius, 40º+ deserves a hospital visit (35-36º is the usual body temp). If you somehow manage to get it to 100º, please take pictures, I'm pretty sure the body would glow
I'm pretty sure the body would glow
Nah, boiling water doesn’t glow. But it would probably be pretty foamy, from all of the proteins in the boiling blood.
At 38c you should be calling the doctor and at 39 you should be in the ER.
100 degrees C for 30 minutes, longer than that and the meat gets too stringy
I would have though a baby would be treated more like a brisket and that's way to little time.
Apologies I got my cooking instructions from google ai
Perhaps a nice braise
Above 100c I'm not wasting money on a doctor.
Then I sure as hell hope you've never been responsible for caring for an infant.
If baby temperature is 100c, its more reducing it to a simmer and covering with a lid temperature rather than a doctor temperature
At 100c it has been dead for a very long time. 63C is medium rare for pork which means most humans should be well cooked at that temp.
Yeah, pretty much anything in the triple digits is “call the pediatrician” levels when dealing with babies. Babies’ immune response is more focused on accepting immunizations from breast milk, and it will basically try to integrate things that have been filtered through mom first. The default response isn’t straight to “kill it” but rather “study it so we can protect against it later.” So babies’ immune systems really aren’t prepared for a full blown infection, because it won’t jump to actually fighting the infection until it is already pretty bad. If their temp is in the triple digits, it’s usually a sign that they caught something that didn’t already get filtered through mom’s immune system.