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Originally Posted by seeker33
That's true for me, I can be very sick but my temperature rarely gets above 37. As a kid, this frustrated me enormously :-D
Another stupid thing was squeezing lemon into hot tea, effectively destroying all vitamin C.
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Understood. I normally run pretty cool, closer to 97 (36) than to 98.6 (37). 98.6 is higher than usual for me, although it's still a normal temperature and isn't medically a fever. It used to be hard to convince people I wasn't just being a hypochondriac. Nowadays, I don't get accused of that anymore. But this bug has me up as high as 101 (38.3) which is a fever in anybody's book. Unless you're a cat, in which case it's normal.
How about the thinking that eating liver once a week is good for your iron levels? I remember when doctors used to recommend that. Or, at least in our house, being pumped full of megadoses of vitamins? There is such a thing as vitamin toxicity.