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What type of heat transfer is used by feeling a forehead to detect fever?
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as the fever passes through the body is it convection in the blood and fluids and conduction in the muscles??
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Use in a sentence for thermometer?
use thermometer in fever.
Whats the difference of fever thermometer and laboratory thermometer?
fever thermometer is used by the doctors and they are adjusted to body temperature whereas lab thermometer is adjusted to liquid temperature
What is a synonym for the word heat?
hotness, fever, warmness, swelter, warmth, torridness
What way can the body can cool down from a fever?
Easiest is to take a cool bath.
Why do you sponge babies with a fever using cool water?
to cool them off or they die fast
Why do people feel there forehead when they have a fever?
They feel their forehead to determine if they have a fever. People with a fever feel hot. So if your forehead feels hot then you have a fever.
What methods can be used to take a child's temperature?
A method for checking a child's temperature can include placing your lips to the child's forehead. Because lips are one of the body's sensitive parts, it's easier to detect a fever with lips than with hands.
What is a non-example of fever?
Feeling cool is a non-example of fever
If feel feverish why can't you take your own temperature with your hand?
no, you cannot detect your own fever with your hand because your hand is the same body temperature as your forehead. Therefore, you can't feel if your forehead is hot or cold both are either hot at the same time or cold.
What does feverish mean?
Feverish means on the verge of getting a fever or having a fever. When I get a fever, I will start feeling feverish
How do you know you have the yellow fever?
Well, is your forehead purple? No? Is it yellow? Yes? Well then, you have the yellow feaver.
What to do in case of high temperature?
Fever reducing meds and/or cold compress to back of neck or forehead.
Is 99.1 a fever for a 3 week baby?
I am not sure but I think yes because my baby sister's forehead is SO HOT ! It is a little bit of a fever though.
Why you cannot establish whether you are running high temperature by touching your own forehead?
What we measure by touching something is not an absolute temperature but merely a difference in temperatures and the difference is not noticeable when both hand and head belong to the same, high temperature person.
How is your fever?
I'm defiantly feeling better! thanks for asking.
What causes a Fever that is transfer from one person to another?
I know that fever is passed from one another is because of the cough or fever that's all thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is this fever worth going to the er room?
I have a fever of 101.4 since monday, i have been feeling very fatigue, sleeping most of the day not feeling like eating. Severe Headache and a stiff neck
