how high a temperature is 'too high' for an ill adult?

Question

My daughter has just had a slight tummy upset with no raised temperature, but my husband became ill this evening with diarreah and some vomiting. He is sometimes dizzy and has a temperature of 38degrees.... is this too high?

Answer 1

Yes its too high. Put him in an ice bath and then beat him with reeds.

Answer 2

Adult High Temperature

Answer 3

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how high a temperature is 'too high' for an ill adult?
My daughter has just had a slight tummy upset with no raised temperature, but my husband became ill this evening with diarreah and some vomiting. He is sometimes dizzy and has a temperature of 38degrees.... is this too high?

Answer 4

Normal body temp is 37 degrees. I wouldn't worry at 38 but it indicates his body is fighting an infection - which is good. The worst thing that people do is take the temp down with paracetamol or the like. The body is doing the correct thing by raising the temperature - the bacteria or virus cannot proliferate so well under high temp - so the best thing to do is sweat it out! Young children - I'd worry if it was over 39 but once they're over 3, the above info applies. Parents are calpol mad - the body does know what it's doing. I suggest TLC & fluids for your husband.

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Answer 6

HI, I feel for you all, I'm just getting over the flu, as is my daughter. I had a temp of 38.7C which is about 101F. My daughter reached 39C. Any fever is unpleasant but a dose of nurofen will help to bring it down. What's dangerous for a child will be tolerated in an adult and some people say you shouldn't try to bring a temp down as it's the bodies way of trying to kill the virus, by making it too hot for the virus to live and by bringing the temp down with drugs will actually prolong the illness. However, my doc said that's a load of rubbish.

Answer 7

I had to look around a bit to find the highest core temperature recorded, 108 F (42.2 C) was recorded in an emergency department in Dallas.

These days the highest temperatures I see are usually in children. Overall I would expect to see 3 or 4 patents with temps just over 40 C in an average month.

Most doctors are generally aware that rising temperature in infections is part of our defence systems, the body destroys organisms better at higher temperatures and some organisms are adapted to function best at human body temperature, raising the temperature reduces their ability to cause disease.

Despite this we spend a great deal of our time advising and prescribing drugs to reduce temperature in disease. Though this is most definitely still considered conventional wisdom, I have just recently come across a couple of medical journal articles questioning it, i.e. wondering if allowing temperatures to remain high might quicken recovery in some conditions.

This I hope helps with you general question about body temperature. If you are concerned about your husbands condition, that is a different question and you should seek medical advice.

Answer 8

No it's not too high. That is a mild fever. It's part of the body's process when dealing with infection. Don't worry about it - he won't melt. A sever fever is of about 39.5 to 40 degrees.

Answer 9

WET TOWELS ON FEET AND FOREHEAD. 38/39 is high any higher call for a doctor i know you are worried. Call the doctor if you become very scared better go on the safe side. Sick baby and husband. Your a hero when they are better remind them about how you held the fort alone they owe you some chocolates or something nice for being the Mama wolf

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Answer 11

anything over 38 in a adult is high give him paracetamol every 4 hours if this does not bring it down contact your doctor in the morning. There are lots of bugs going around at the moment. Anything over 37 in a child is high too.Just for your future referance.