I’m not a doctor, but since public health authorities don’t recommend sex-specific temperature standards, why would you? The common cutoff for fever is 100.4 F, which allows margin for the ~1 degree fluctuation around “normal” that some women experience.
I agree with the other poster that some people have unusual “normal” temperatures—mine is around 97.5 when healthy—but that’s unlikely to help you since your partner probably doesn’t have baseline healthy temperature data.
That seems to be 38.0 C in proper units. There are Chinese COVID-19 testing protocols where 37.3 C is the cutoff.
since public health authorities don’t recommend sex-specific temperature standards, why would you?
Just because someone else is stupid, doesn’t mean I have to be stupid as well. The 38 C standard comes out of a time where men where studied and it was just assumed that things will be the same for woman. For heart diesease there’s a lot of research that suggests that woman show different symptoms then the commonly male-based research derieved symptoms that are usually taught as signs of heart disease.
More importantly women have different body temperature at different parts of their cycle. That’s information that should be able to be factored in to get a differernt temperature threshold at different times of the cycle.
Is there any reason to believe the Chinese COVID testing protocol you reference is better than the American consensus? Given that you don’t have any special knowledge about body temperature, going with the consensus seems preferable.
If you’re too worried about COVID to go with the consensus, the safer option would be to go a few months without seeing your partner rather than convincing yourself you can personally do the research needed to achieve an unlikely level of certainty and precision about the temperature cutoff.
I’m not a doctor, but since public health authorities don’t recommend sex-specific temperature standards, why would you? The common cutoff for fever is 100.4 F, which allows margin for the ~1 degree fluctuation around “normal” that some women experience.
I agree with the other poster that some people have unusual “normal” temperatures—mine is around 97.5 when healthy—but that’s unlikely to help you since your partner probably doesn’t have baseline healthy temperature data.
That seems to be 38.0 C in proper units. There are Chinese COVID-19 testing protocols where 37.3 C is the cutoff.
Just because someone else is stupid, doesn’t mean I have to be stupid as well. The 38 C standard comes out of a time where men where studied and it was just assumed that things will be the same for woman. For heart diesease there’s a lot of research that suggests that woman show different symptoms then the commonly male-based research derieved symptoms that are usually taught as signs of heart disease.
More importantly women have different body temperature at different parts of their cycle. That’s information that should be able to be factored in to get a differernt temperature threshold at different times of the cycle.
Is there any reason to believe the Chinese COVID testing protocol you reference is better than the American consensus? Given that you don’t have any special knowledge about body temperature, going with the consensus seems preferable.
If you’re too worried about COVID to go with the consensus, the safer option would be to go a few months without seeing your partner rather than convincing yourself you can personally do the research needed to achieve an unlikely level of certainty and precision about the temperature cutoff.