Correction of low body temperature with iodine supplementation.

Abstract

Ninety percent of patients seen at our clinic have subnormal subnormal /sub·nor·mal/ (-nor´m'l) below normal.
subnormal

below or less than normal. temperatures, which may be correlated with iodine deficiency and may have five different causes as discussed in this paper.

Twenty-four patients who had consistent subnormal temperatures were treated with 1,500 mcg of iodine per day. Twelve subjects had thyroid hormone analysis; all were normal. Eleven of these 12 also had low urinary excretions of iodine. Fifteen of the 24 patients' temperatures returned to normal within one month. Low body temperature may indicate iodine deficiency and/or some other metabolic abnormality. When individuals have subnormal temperatures and do not have a palpable multinodular goiter, iodine supplementation is safe and may be metabolically beneficial.

DBAL wrote:I believe putting it under your arm usually lowers the temp by around 1 degree. 35.4 for the mouth seems very low.