Nechomah -“Body temperature is measured differently depending on a child’s age. If measured rectally, a child is said to be running a fever when the body temperature is over 100.4. Orally, that measurement is 98.6.”
Your last line should say –
“Orally, that measurement is 99 degrees Fahrenheit.”
It would have been a nice post a few years ago, but as you see from my long post -they changed a lot of it. And in Medicine we usually go after the latest recommendations.