Body temperature

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Body temperature

Asked for Male, 2 Years

My boy age 3 years and body temperature 95.5 to 96 . Is it normal temperature yesterday only he recover from fever (100 degrees ) platelet count also little got down.

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Dr. Sreedhar RS Pediatrician 21 yrs exp Chennai · Accepted Answer

Dr. Sreedhar RS

Pediatrician 21 yrs exp Chennai

Hi ...did you measure temperature in mouth or axilla ? Presuming that you took in axilla , temperature from 96.9 to 99.2 to is normal ...the thermometer must be kept at 3 min under arm or 1 min in the mouth , then only it shows correct reading ... also digital thermometers are many times inaccurate...sometimes sweat in axilla or clothes coming in between cause low reading ... Generally low temperature does not occur in previously normal healthy children that easily ...most commonly it is due to wrong temperature measurement..

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