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1 month old infant with forehead temp of 98.9, is it considered a fever?
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No: Pediatricians consider greater than or equal to 100.4 to be fever in a child less than one year of age. It is important to take the temperature recatally as this will give you the most accurate body temperature location.
Answered 9/26/2017
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