Date Posted:Friday, June 06, 2025, 02:26: am
I would be very interested. I have taken on caring for 3 kids for a relative and there is one, an 8 year old boy, who I feel cannot follow through on following instructions to keep a glass oral thermometer safe in his mouth like the other 2 kids. So I am looking for guidance on using a glass rectal thermometer. I purchased 5 inch glass rectal thermometer at a thrift store along with 2 regular size glass oral thermometers. When I was growing up, when one of us kids got sick, we all got a temperature taken in the living room at the same time. But in the present, I wonder how he will react to having his temperature take in his "butt" at the same time the other 2 get a temperature taken in the mouth.
Date Posted:Friday, June 06, 2025, 03:28: am
Nicole,
What have you tried so for?
Honestly, you might have to take that moment to hold that thermometer to get that reading from the 8 year old. You would think, well he is old enough to hold it himself, but it may be a battle not worth fighting. Train Train Train. Pat on the back, high five! He is at that age that simple praise may work on him.
Date Posted:Sunday, September 21, 2025, 06:44: am
Yes. My situation is different. I work at a satellite clinic serving children from kindergartner up to the 6th grade living in financially disadvantaged households. The small staff at this remote site. The clinic consists of one large room located in what was once convenience store on the outskirts of town.
I do referrals of patients who report sick as well as heath monitoring visits which documents patient's current health status. Regardless of the purpose of the visit, a temperature is taken and documented in the patient's chart. Glass thermometers are used exclusively for taking a temperature because they always produce consistently reliable readings. The rise in patients have resulted in taking the temperature of few patients at one time in an area designated for that purpose in an area of the waiting thus reducing the average time it take to obtain a temperature reading. In addition, a patient designated to have a temperature taken in the rear end with a glass rectal accommodated at while other patients are having oral temperatures taken same time.
Most of the vast majority of patients beyond the age of five years old are boys that have intellectual and/or emotional shortcomings that place them at risk of having a mishap while a glass oral thermometer is place in the mouth. A smaller portion of them come home with grades in school that do not reflect their scholastic potential resulting continued to be required to have a rectal temperature taken with a glass rectal thermometer. The importance of taking a rectal temperature of a patient at the clinic is that nothing is required of him but to remain passive while a glass rectal thermometer is placed in his mouth.
