Q: Can a boy’s fever cause testicular damage?
A: No.
The testicles require a lower ambient temperature than other organs, and the temperature in the scrotum is lower than the core body temperature in the abdominal cavity. Many parents worry that even a low fever will do harm to the temperature-sensitive testicle first.
However, not all fevers are bad for children. Normal fevers between 37.8℃-40℃ are not only harmful to children but good for them.
First of all, there is a ceiling effect of fever,which is the human body temperature does not rise uncontrollably.Fever rarely exceeds 42 ℃.
Secondly, the scrotal skin of children is elastic and the skin area that can be stretched.The capillaries of the skin expand and the scrotal skin relaxes during fever, all of which are conducive to heat dissipation for the purpose of cooling the scrotum.
Finally, if a child’s reproductive organs were so fragile, it would defy the normal laws of survival and reproduction and humans would not be able to pass on their genes.
The fact is that fevers with infections don’t cause organ damage, testicles neither. Only temperature above 42℃ can do organ damage,which is rare for temperature to climb this high.An example is ultra-high fever caused by heat stroke.
