Temperature of the human body
Most of us know about body temperature only that it is a complex indicator of the thermal state of the human body and that it should equal 36.6.
But the body temperature is not such a simple thing, as it seems to us.
- The function of the thermostat in the body is performed by the hypothalamus. It is he who is engaged in thermoregulation.
- The oldest ancestors of people - amphibians and reptiles - were cold-blooded. And the first mammals regulate their temperature badly. This is noticeable in the platypus and echinoderms, which have a temperature drop of 3-4 degrees during cold snap. So the person still went a long way before he reached the cherished 36.6.
- There are foods that can by themselves lower the temperature by a full degree. Among them, green gooseberry, some varieties of plums( especially yellow), cane sugar. Strongly reduces the temperature and heavy hangover: it is the fault of the disturbed vascular reaction.
- Doctors call a subfebrile temperature from 37 degrees to 37.3.It indicates the borderline between health and disease. And sometimes the temperature of a healthy person can rise to such a figure after sports, visiting a sauna or just taking a hot bath. Or if a person has overeaten mustard and pepper, re-occupied with mental labor, experienced stress or orgasm.
- Mercury thermometer was first used to measure temperature in Germany. It was in 1891.
- Approximately at the same time, it appeared that lowering the constant body temperature by one degree, there is an opportunity to prolong life. A little later it was popular opinion that for any of us there is a "proper" norm regarding temperature. Both opinions are now considered fallacies: they have not been scientifically confirmed.
- Some people can regulate their temperature by the efforts of thought. This is called a psychosomatic leap.
- Record low body temperature in living people was observed in two canals. Two-year-old Carly Kozolofsky stayed 6 hours in the cold at 22 degrees and stayed alive. After that, her temperature during rectal measurement was 14 degrees. The child survived and still lives. Another young Canadian, whose name does not exist in history, lived for some time with a temperature of 34 degrees. A girl of 19 years at the same time felt perfectly normal and was healthy in all respects. This phenomenon was registered by Canadian doctors in 1995.
- There are also record-holders who survived extremely high temperatures. So was the fifty-two-year-old resident of Atlanta( USA) William Jones, with whom in 1980 there was a heat stroke. He was taken to hospital in Atlanta with a temperature of 46.5.The idea is already at 42-43 in the body is the destruction of proteins and other processes that are not compatible with life. And Jones survived and three weeks later was discharged from the hospital almost healthy.
- South Korea treats depression by lowering the temperature of the upper half of the body and raising the legs and lower body. Koreans in general are strange, but the method works.