The thermometer is a tool that is not often used. It is therefore rare to change its battery and it can discharge at less than opportune moments. In other cases, there is a need to know if a person has a fever when away from home.
It is therefore important to know how to measure fever without a thermometer to understand if the body temperature has risen. These methods, of course, do not replace the response of a thermometer or a doctor. It is therefore advisable to always contact a professional or get yourself of thermometer when you fear you will have a fever.
Feel the body heat
A bit like mothers did, the first method to measure fever without a thermometer is with contact. By touching the forehead of the person who is not feeling well, it is possible to perceive if the temperature has risen.
It is important, however, not to touch physical extremities such as hands and feet. These, in fact, tend to be colder than the rest of the body even in case of fever.
How to measure a fever without a thermometer to understand if the body temperature has risen is therefore very easy. Just place your lips, or the back of your hand, on the forehead of someone who feels bad. However, you have to pay attention to the outside temperature or physical activity. If you are in a very hot room, or the person he just ran and tired, it is easy for the temperature to be higher.
Beware of these symptoms
The rising fever gives, in hindsight, other symptoms as well as the ever higher temperature. Among them are the chills. If the patient begins to get colder and shivering, this is a clear alarm bell.
But not only. Symptoms of fever also include muscle aches, thirst and redness. Obviously with these methods it is impossible to establish exactly how many degrees of fever you have.
However, it is possible to see that the fever has risen above the normal threshold and that you are facing an illness. Normally a healthy individual has a maximum temperature that does not exceed 37.5 degrees. However, there are also people who already experience symptoms above 37 degrees.
It is therefore important to know what the sick person’s temperature is when they are healthy. If these symptoms occur it will then be possible to understand that the temperature is rising.
(We remind you to carefully read the warnings in this regard, which can be consulted who”)
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