What Is The Normal Temperature For Humans?
It is of interest that, even though the environment may vary as much as two hundred degrees, yet 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit is ordinarily considered “normal” temperature. Such things as race, diet, climate and sex have very little bearing on one’s temperature; still there are other factors that do cause variations. For example, one’s temperature varies throughout the day. It is the lowest between three and six o’clock in the morning and the highest between four and five o’clock in the afternoon. Then again, the temperature varies in different parts of the body. The rectal temperature is one degree higher than that of the mouth; the hands and feet are lower in temperature and the tips of the nose and ears have the lowest temperature. Such things as exercise or emotional upsets will raise the body’s temperature. But such a condition could not be a true fever, for the body returns to its normal temperature as soon as exercise stops, no pyrogen having acted upon the hypothalamus. So it follow
