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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 89039" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Chicken or the egg - did her body temperature drop and this trigger the change, or did the temperature drop as a result? Or is there some other factor and this isn't causative, simply a coincident factor?</p><p></p><p>On a different note - my favourite author, Terry Pratchett, has written a fantasy satire series with a range of different 'species' characters in it. Trolls are made of rock, for example, so they move slowly, they think even slower. But in one book, a troll got very cold indeed, and suddenly began to think at extremely advanced level, very very quickly. The author claimed that at low temperatures the troll's brain became superconductive (silicon-based lifeform). That particular troll was in the police force and was often used for road blocks. He WAS the road block. But after that incident if the troll was faced with tricky questions, he reached up to his modified police helmet and switched on a little cooling fan...</p><p></p><p>I think an important question with your daughter is, how stable was the low temperature? Did it stay low even when she felt comfortable? At what temperature did she begin to shiver? Or was she not shivering? I would think cortisol levels would be interesting, as well as thyroid hormones.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 89039, member: 1991"] Chicken or the egg - did her body temperature drop and this trigger the change, or did the temperature drop as a result? Or is there some other factor and this isn't causative, simply a coincident factor? On a different note - my favourite author, Terry Pratchett, has written a fantasy satire series with a range of different 'species' characters in it. Trolls are made of rock, for example, so they move slowly, they think even slower. But in one book, a troll got very cold indeed, and suddenly began to think at extremely advanced level, very very quickly. The author claimed that at low temperatures the troll's brain became superconductive (silicon-based lifeform). That particular troll was in the police force and was often used for road blocks. He WAS the road block. But after that incident if the troll was faced with tricky questions, he reached up to his modified police helmet and switched on a little cooling fan... I think an important question with your daughter is, how stable was the low temperature? Did it stay low even when she felt comfortable? At what temperature did she begin to shiver? Or was she not shivering? I would think cortisol levels would be interesting, as well as thyroid hormones. Marg [/QUOTE]
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