It is known that the body’s normal temperature is 37 degrees Celsius and in some cases in some people this temperature may rise to about 40 degrees Celsius and may also fall below 35 degrees Celsius, then the body is very cold accompanied by chills and find it difficult to Breathing In some cases, a lower temperature may cause normal death due to the quality of the person’s temperature drop as well as causes.
Types of low temperature
- Very low temperature: In these cases the body temperature may reach 28 degrees Celsius, and this leads to many diseases such as tremor and tremor strong, loss of control of movement, muscle stiffness, dilated pupil, weak breathing, which is absent in many cases , Leading to loss of consciousness.
- Acute hypothermia: This condition occurs when the person is suddenly exposed to a decrease in temperature, such as exposure to extreme cold.
- Low temperature: The temperature in this case between 28-32 degrees Celsius without increase or decrease, and shows the person in this case several symptoms such as feeling tired and lethargy, memory loss, inability to focus, difficulty in movement, Balance, extreme jitter.
- Chronic Hypothermia: In this case, the temperature decreases gradually, and this is what many suffer especially in the winter because of the cold weather.
Causes that lead to a cold body and low temperatures
- The presence of some diseases in the infected person.
- Do not wear clothing suitable for weather conditions such as wearing light clothing in the winter, leading to low temperature between the medium and severe because of the loss of the body to the heat that it stores.
- Older people are more likely than others to cool the body, and lower body temperature due to fatigue, exhaustion or cold weather.
- Wear wet clothes.
- Use air conditioners at very low temperatures.
- Exposure to extreme wind causes the body to cool.
- Direct friction with cool objects leads to low temperature.
The treatment is done by heating the patient’s body fully and giving him warm drinks, eating hot soup, putting warm water compresses, putting the feet into a bowl of hot water, and then calling the ambulance immediately.