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Disabling symptoms associated with increased axillary temperature in patients with functional hyperthermia.

Takakazu Oka
Published in: BioPsychoSocial medicine (2024)
Many patients with FH reported worsening fatigue as a disabling symptom associated with increased axillary temperature; more than half of those patients experienced worsening fatigue in the temperature range of 37.0 °C to 37.4 °C. These findings suggest that the reasons patients with FH consider 37 °C disabling and seek medical treatment are that physical symptoms such as fatigue worsen at 37 °C, although this temperature is assumed by many physicians to be within the normal range or just above the normal range of axillary temperature, and that most hyperthermia-associated symptoms are not alleviated by antipyretic drugs.
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