Can I read Disabling Symptoms Associated with Increased Axillary Temperature in Patients with Functional Hyperthermia on EtoBox?

Disabling Symptoms Associated with Increased Axillary Temperature in Patients with Functional Hyperthermia by Takakazu Oka is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Disabling Symptoms Associated with Increased Axillary Temperature in Patients with Functional Hyperthermia about?

## Background I previously reported a case of functional hyperthermia (FH) in a patient with an axillary temperature just slightly above 37.0 °C who persistently requested treatment. Because the severity of her fatigue increased remarkably when her axillary temperature increased above 37.0 °C, she felt that the temperature of 37.0 °C was disabling. In the present study, I analyzed a larger number of patients with FH to investigate the incidence of disabling symptoms with increasing body temperature, the kinds of symptoms associated with increased body temperature, and the temperatures at which these symptoms became disabling. ## Main body Twenty patients with FH (7 men, 13 women; mean age ± standard deviation, 31.2 ± 10.9 years) who visited my department were asked whether they had any disabling symptoms associated with an increase in axillary temperature and, if so, at what temperature the symptoms became disabling. Sixteen of 20 patients (80.0%) responded that they had such symptoms, which included worsening of general fatigue (__n__ = 12, 75.0%), feelings that their brain did not work properly (__n__ = 5, 31.3%), inability to move (__n__ = 4, 25.0%), hot flashes/feeling of heat

Who reads Disabling Symptoms Associated with Increased Axillary Temperature in Patients with Functional Hyperthermia?

Author

Takakazu Oka

Publisher

BioMed Central

Published

2024

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)