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Is 99.8 & below considered a temp? or mild temp.

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Dr. Robert Killian answered

Specializes in General Practice

Fever is a Fever: In medicine we do not use the word 'mild' when discussing fever. A fever is a fever and 99.8 orally is a fever.

Answered 2/20/2014

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