East Kalimantan Bappeda Takes Prevention of Covid 19
Samarinda, 16/7/2020. The Bappeda of East Kalimantan Province, through officers, carries out routine body temperature checks in order to avoid the corona virus 19 for everyone who enters the Bappeda office. They must measure their body temperature and use a marker and wash their hands with soap or use hand sanitizer. If an officer has a certain high body temperature, he is not permitted to enter the East Kalimantan Bappeda office.
What is your actual body temperature? This is of course a question for many people, however, a person's normal body temperature varies depending on several factors, namely age, gender and activity level. Body temperature checks can also be carried out in several parts of the body, namely the armpits, mouth and anus.
The following is a list of normal human body temperatures based on age, as quoted by medical news today:
1. Normal body temperature in adults
Normal adult body temperature is 97.6-99.6°f or 36.5 - 37.5 ° c. And here is the body temperature of an adult when they have a fever:
100.4 ° f (38 ° c) fever category
103.1 ° f (39.5°c) high fever category
105.8 ° f (41 ° c) very high fever category.
2. Normal body temperature in children
Normal body temperature for children aged 3 - 10 ranges from 95.9 - 99.5 ° f or 35.5 - 37.5 ° c. Children tend to have the same body temperature as adults.
3. Normal body temperature in babies
Sometimes, babies and young children have a higher body temperature range than adults when measurements are taken through the armpit and ear. Normal body temperature for babies aged 0 - 2 years ranges from 36.6 - 37 ° c, when taken with a rectal thermometer. Body temperature may rise slightly when the baby is teething. Meanwhile, the average body temperature of a newborn baby is 99.5 ° f or 37.5 ° c. Babies' temperatures are higher than adults because they have a larger body surface area relative to their body weight. Their bodies are also metabolically active, thus producing heat.
They also don't sweat as much when they're warm, which means that their bodies retain heat. Because of this, it is also more difficult for babies to cool down when they have a fever. So, how do you know what normal body temperature is? What you need to remember is that normal body temperature in adults and children varies based on age, gender, physical activity and health. Body temperature measurement tools can also provide different results depending on the type of measurement tool and which part of the body the temperature is taken from. If you have an unusually high or low temperature, immediately go to the hospital or doctor so you can get healing help. (*some are excerpts from articles from electronic mass media/skr).
