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2022-04-21 00:58:49
Hello doctor In digital thermometer temp is 99.5 in underarm does that mean real temperature is 100.5?. my  4 yr old daughter is down with fever so confused wheather to give her medicine or not?
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Underarm temperature is 0.5 to 1.0 degrees lower than oral (core ) temperature. So you can consider 99.5 as fever and give the medicine

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