if u want to get a proper core temperature, use the thermometer in your mouth or rectally. even mouth may be inaccurate if u have breathed hot sauna fumes for several minutes, so rectally is probably the only exact way to take it.
if u just put it under armpit, that is not accurate, it will measure your skin temperature and the fat below your skin which was heated by the sauna, and yes that will be hot but you have bacteria in your entire body including your bones. bartonella infects bone marrow. that is deep enough not to be affected by your sauna heat.
but you can take my word that you cannot raise it. besides that, you need to keep it up for one hour or more, and it's really dangerous to stay in the sauna that long, you may die. this is why these clinics cost so much money to heat people up, it's not a walk in the park ... and they have good equipment, they monitor your heat, provide fluids, continuously monitor EKG to see what your heart is doing.
please try not to kill yourself trying to get rid of this scourge. it will be curable soon. just try to stay afloat till then.
Post Edited (mpost) : 10/3/2017 9:01:26 AM (GMT-6)