Can overdressing an infant cause an elevated body-temperature?

Among many physicians, it is commonly believed that the cause of a slight elevation in temperature in an infant could result from overdressing the infant in many layers of clothing. This issue often comes up when a child is brought to an emergency room and is found to have a fever. Sometimes the evaluating physicians may feel the fever is not significant because the child was noted to be heavily swaddled in blankets and clothing. The clothing, not an illness, may then be felt to be the cause of the elevated temperature. Because of this, the evaluating physicians might then limit their investigation of the child's problem, believing fever to be nonexistent. In another example, …