Average Human Temperature

97 9 f to 100 4 f.

Average human temperature. Your temperature doesn t stay same all day and it. Kiersten willis the atlanta journal constitution the temperature 98 6 degrees fahrenheit may be seared into your brain as the average temperature of the human body but a recent study shows that. A german physician came up with 98 6 f as average human temperature in the 1800s. In the latest study parsonnet and colleagues analyzed more than 677 000 body temperature.

A normal adult body temperature when taken orally can range from 97 6 99 6 f though different sources may give slightly. Babies and children have a little higher range. For years the figure has held an important place in hospital rooms and physiology textbooks. The reasons for this could be less.

You probably always heard that the average human body temperature is 98 6 f. 98 6 degrees fahrenheit 37 degrees celsius is widely considered to be the normal average human body. In babies and children the average body temperature ranges from 97 9 f 36 6 c to 99 f 37 2 c. Now researchers say the average human temperature is lowering slightly.

In 1851 a german physician called carl reinhold august wunderlich surveyed 25 000 people in one city and established that 37 c is the standard temperature of the human body. For example a recent study found that the average body temperature of 25 000 british people was 97 9 f.