Contents:
- Medical Video: 99 QUICK AND FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY
- 1. Body temperature always changes
- 2. When smoking, body temperature rises
- 3. Do you often lie? Body temperature also increased at that time
- 4. Determine the time of death from body temperature
- 5. Cold body temperature makes you sleep better
- 6. Fever is not always bad
Medical Video: 99 QUICK AND FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY
The body can naturally regulate body temperature and adjust it to environmental conditions. Increasing the condition of human body temperature can be a sign that something is happening, whether it is related to the severity of the disease, or indeed the body is cold or too hot. There are many unique facts about human body temperature that you might not realize, you know! Anything? Come see below.
1. Body temperature always changes
The normal body temperature of an adult is 36.5 to 37.5 degrees Celsius. While babies have a higher body temperature than adults. Because babies sweat less when they feel hot. That also makes why babies experience fever more often than children or adults.
The body temperature can also change according to its environmental conditions, for example when exercise increases and decreases at night. If you look at your body temperature with a thermometer in the afternoon, the results can be higher than if you measure it in the morning.
2. When smoking, body temperature rises
Did you know that smoking can increase body temperature? Actually, this is because you breathe smoke from cigarettes. Ja, the temperature at the end of the cigarette is 95 degrees Celsius. Now, when smoke is inhaled into the nose and then goes into the lungs, the temperature in these organs will increase.
When your lungs are hot, these organs cannot perform one of the important functions of cooling or removing heat from the body. This is what ultimately makes the body temperature become high. When you stop smoking, your body temperature will return to normal in about 20 minutes.
Just breathing cigarette smoke can endanger the lungs, especially if you become an active smoker every day. So, stop your smoking habits slowly.
3. Do you often lie? Body temperature also increased at that time
In fairy tales, people who lie will have long noses. Well, in the real world your nose also changes when lying. Not the shape is getting longer, but the nose temperature is increasing, reported on the MD webpage.
Spanish researchers at the University of Granada are still investigating this phenomenon. It is suspected that this occurs because of the body's response when you lie. When someone is lying, anxiety and fear of being caught will appear. At that moment, your body will cause a number of responses, such as your heartbeat will increase and your body temperature will increase. Finally, the area around the nose and eyes will feel warmer.
4. Determine the time of death from body temperature
When someone dies, body temperature will slowly decrease. Well, body temperature is often used by investigators to estimate when the dead body actually died.
The investigator can get an idea of how long the body has died by putting his hand under the corpse. If his body is warm, it means that he died just hours before But if it's cold and damp, at least it has died 18 to 24 hours ago.
5. Cold body temperature makes you sleep better
Body temperature can also affect how well a person sleeps. The cooler, then you can sleep better. Some time before humans fall asleep, the body will reduce its temperature to about 1 to 2 degrees. This temperature change helps the body eventually fall into the sleep cycle.
Therefore, taking a warm bath or taking a shower before bed is a drug that is often recommended for insomnia. Because, after bathing in warm water the body will experience a considerable decrease in temperature, thus stimulating drowsiness.
6. Fever is not always bad
Research in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology found that increasing body temperature can help the immune system work better. Usually, this happens when a person has a fever. Indeed, fever makes itself uncomfortable, but this is one of the body's immune responses to fighting disease.
So, when attacked by bacteria, viruses, or other germs, the immune system will fight. One response is to increase body temperature and eventually you have a fever.
