GENERAL HEALTH
What Does It Mean If You Have a Low Temperature?
May 1, 2020
Symptom Guides > General Health > What Does It Mean If You Have a Low Temperature?

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Dr. Sarah Malka
Dr. Sarah Malka is a board certified emergency medicine physician with K Health. She completed her residency at Harvard Medical School.
If you’re not wearing proper attire, taking a stroll on a beautiful winter day could be more dangerous than you’d think. Of course, feeling cold for a few minutes on your way home or to a coffee shop is perfectly safe, but if your body is exposed to extreme cold for a prolonged period of time, you could develop hypothermia.
Hypothermia is a dangerously low body temperature, below 95° F (35° C). For context, normal body temperature is 98.6° F (37° C). Aside from creating serious discomfort, low body temperature—specifically, hypothermia—is considered a medical emergency. Luckily, it is both preventable and treatable, so if you feel like you are developing signs of hypothermia, there is a lot you can do to recover.
In this article I’ll explore:
“In the United States, over 1,300 people die annually from hypothermia.”
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by
Dr. Sarah Malka
Dr. Sarah Malka is a board certified emergency medicine physician with K Health. She completed her residency at Harvard Medical School.
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