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Wayne
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Date Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 02:47: pm
In reply to:
Jim (UK)
's message, "Re: A new toy" on Thursday, March 29, 2012, 04:27: am
Could you post the length and width of the thermometer please?
The strongest objection to glass thermometers in the U.S. has been the highly toxic mercury content and so there should be no objection for using this thermometer for taking a child's temperature. That is, the most common new users are parents and other caretakers who decline using electronic thermometers.
Just because it is a rectal thermometer that does not mean that it cannot be used orally for a child that is capable of managing a glass thermometer in his/her mouth, providing that one one thermometer is designated for oral use and another for rectal use. Though with the increase in proportion of elementary school age children with limitations in the last 20 years, over the age of five years old (an arbitrary age where a rectal temperature was mandatory in a military serviced medical clinic or dispensary), that would make them unfit for an oral temperature, the glass rectal thermometer would come in quite handy.
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