What's your blood pressure, though? Mine was 100/60 yesterday, which is pretty average for me. The highest it's ever been measured was 120/80. The lowest was 80/50. They weren't too happy about that...
Oh, and in the US doctors take the temps of adults under the tongue. When we were kids, we had these stickers put on our foreheads to measure it. My grandmother insisted under the arm was the best place for the thermometer. "Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky
Regarding blood pressure: it has been ages since I last measured it, but I usually came in dead close to 120/80 -- that is, when I didn't invalidate the measurement with nervousness (happened quite often). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
My grandmother was from a family of Arkansas sharecroppers. "Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky
I don't look obese at all, and have no prior history of heart-related problems, so they don't waste the effort. (As for people with heart problems, it's usual for them to have an instrument and use it daily.) My blood pressure is taken during regular medical checks for my company every couple of years. When younger, the draft examination bodies of the military would also take it (and they would get quite annoyed when I invalidated the results). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Up to 100F - you'll live. 100-102F - worth keeping an eye on. 102-104F - visit the doctor. >104F - call the doctor. Now.
The highest I've had as an adult was 102F, and that was the most vicious flu I've ever had. The fever was the least of my worries - not being able to keep water down unless it was ice cold or salty was more of a problem.
I had 104F as a child, but - oddly enough - I don't remember the details.
>104F - call the doctor. Now. ... I had 104F as a child, but - oddly enough - I don't remember the details.
I can testify to this.
I had mononucleosis when I was in my first year of high school, and my fever went to a little above 105 (or 106, I can't remember). I remember going to the emergency room, and then the room going dark and collapsing while they were trying to take an x-ray on me. Apparently had a seizure, but they didn't tell me what happened after that. Woke up quite a while later, after having been pumped full of what I think was epinephrine, with about 20 doctors standing around me breathing sighs of relief, which was obviously quite reassuring....
The whole episode was very short, though. From feeling fine before it hit to being well enough to leave the hospital, it couldn't have been more than 12 hours. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Google search reveals that specific comparisons are avoided. But I noticed some isolated statements that body temperature depends on race, slightly more that on gender. As for the digestive tract, can you notice that most Asians have relatively shorter legs (so "equivalently", longer abdominals)?
I remember that in the Soviet Union the normal body temperature was 36.6 - quite strictly!
