re: Calling all doctors....advice needed

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However, 99.6, as Spock's Eyebrow pointed out first isn't really a fever because it can be considered physiological at times. Meaning your body can do it just because.

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Your temperature can be lower than normal, too.

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100.4 is considered a fever because it is more likely something is causing that fever through inflammatory mediators like TNF, IFN, and a couple others.

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Again, I ask of the OT, why is 100.4 considered the threshold? Why not 100.2, for example? Why not 100.6?