[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] The Average Human Body Temperature ISN’T 98.6°F Anymore

[Tracy Marks]

Recently, I was at the hospital, where they took my temperature as 
usual, and it was 96.2. The assistant said that something was wrong, and 
tried again. And again. Then got another thermoometer gadget. Same 
result. Called in another nurse. I tried to explain, as I have many 
times that my average body temperature is usually below between 96 and 
97 97 degrees so it's just a little below average right now.

(My mother had rheumatic fever when I was born and I was a blue baby; 
she was ice cold to touch - a very difficult experience for 
mother/infant nurturance. Also I grew up in South Florida without air 
conditioning as did three generations of my Key West native relatives 
before me. Possibly our body temperatures just naturally were low to 
cope with the intolerable heat).

Anyway, this tendency of our medical profession to view 98.6 as normal 
is threatening to the health of the small minority of us who have a much 
lower body temperature. If my temperature is 99 degrees, it's like most 
people's being 101 degrees. And I feel very feverish. But the doctors 
don't take my symptoms seriously. And I could be getting very ill as I 
have in the past.

Tracy Marks

On 2026-01-07 17:42, arnold peterson via LCTG wrote:

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/09/body-temperature.html

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