最近美国加利福尼亚大学的医学家们提出告诫:当老年人发热或有功能状态的急剧变化时,必须尽快查明病因,尽早给予正确治疗。因为研究人员经大量的临床观察发现,老年人患感染性疾病时,发热可不明显或不发热,因此易漏诊而延误治疗,从而使老年人发生并发症和病死率的现象均增高。如果老年人一旦出现发热,常提示患有严重的感染。尽管健康老年人平均最高体温及最低体温与年青人差别不大,但体弱老年人的基础体温低于健康年轻人。老年人的平均清晨口 Recently, scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, warned that as the elderly have a fever or a dramatic change in their functional status, the cause must be identified as soon as possible and given as soon as possible. Because the researchers after a large number of clinical observations found that the elderly suffering from infectious diseases, the fever was not obvious or fever, so easy to missed diagnosis and delay treatment, so that the incidence of complications and mortality in the elderly are increased. If the elderly appear fever, often prompted a serious infection. Although the average maximum body temperature and the lowest body temperature of healthy seniors are not much different from those of young people, the basal body temperature of frail older persons is lower than that of healthy young people. The average early morning mouth of the elderly