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[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago

102.6 in an infant was er territory I thought

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago

For infants it is usually recommended to seek treatment from your pediatrician for a temp over 100.4°F. (See link)

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/infant-and-toddler-health/in-depth/healthy-baby/art-20047793

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Gotta love that metric-conversion decimal dust.

100.4 F is 38 C which is the actual measurement.

[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah above 100 is doctor visit time, be it in C or F

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 19 points 1 day ago

In Celsius, 40º+ deserves a hospital visit (35-36º is the usual body temp). If you somehow manage to get it to 100º, please take pictures, I'm pretty sure the body would glow

I'm pretty sure the body would glow

Nah, boiling water doesn’t glow. But it would probably be pretty foamy, from all of the proteins in the boiling blood.

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

At 38c you should be calling the doctor and at 39 you should be in the ER.

[-] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

Above 100c I'm not wasting money on a doctor.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Then I sure as hell hope you've never been responsible for caring for an infant.

[-] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If baby temperature is 100c, its more reducing it to a simmer and covering with a lid temperature rather than a doctor temperature

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

At 100c it has been dead for a very long time. 63C is medium rare for pork which means most humans should be well cooked at that temp.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

100 degrees C for 30 minutes, longer than that and the meat gets too stringy

[-] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

I would have though a baby would be treated more like a brisket and that's way to little time.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago

Apologies I got my cooking instructions from google ai

[-] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Perhaps a nice braise

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, pretty much anything in the triple digits is “call the pediatrician” levels when dealing with babies. Babies’ immune response is more focused on accepting immunizations from breast milk, and it will basically try to integrate things that have been filtered through mom first. The default response isn’t straight to “kill it” but rather “study it so we can protect against it later.” So babies’ immune systems really aren’t prepared for a full blown infection, because it won’t jump to actually fighting the infection until it is already pretty bad. If their temp is in the triple digits, it’s usually a sign that they caught something that didn’t already get filtered through mom’s immune system.

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