Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com], Pediatric Research, 4(11), p. 540-540
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-197704000-01023
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Often it is difficult to differentiate environmental from disease related fever in the newborn. Other investigators have suggested that the foot of the overheated infant feels relatively warm, whereas it feels cool in the infant with disease related fever. This study was undertaken to establish the relationship between rectal temperature (RT) and peripheral skin temperature in the normal and overheated infant and to compare it with that relationship in the infant with a fever which is disease related.