A study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, counters the age-old benchmark of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Instead, Hausmann, the scientist and his colleagues found an average normal temperature in adults of 97.7 degrees, as measured with an oral thermometer. He reported that for fever, it begins at 99.5 degrees, on average. Jonathan Hausmann, a rheumatologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston stated that, " A temperature of 99 at six o’clock in the morning is very abnormal, whereas that same temperature at four o’clock in the afternoon can be totally normal ".
He gathered 11,458 temperatures in crowdsourced research using an iPhone app called Feverprints. The scientist mentioned that, we need to forget everything that we know about normal body temperature and fever, starting with 98.6. It is an antiquated number based on a…
