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Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a teamperture taken rectally

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Date Posted: Sunday, September 14, 2025, 04:53: pm
In reply to: AJC 's message, "Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a teamperture taken rectally" on Thursday, August 14, 2025, 11:14: pm

Since my first post, I have been meeting with other moms or other caretakers who use glass thermometers. Of the boys in elementary school (K through 5th grade here, or 5 years old to 9 years old and sometimes older for those boys who have to repeat a grade), all 5 year old boys by default get a temperature taken rectally with a standard 4 inch glass rectal thermometer. Boys at the age of 6 years old and beyond and boys beyond that age that are intellectually impaired and/or neuro-psyc issues such ADHD, ADD, etc., continue to have a temperature taken in the rear end with a glass rectal thermometer. With that being said, also an older boy who is scholastically challenged but not intellectually impaired (where doing homework or studying for tests is his last priority), leading to dismal report card grades, can be regarded as a risk of having a mishap with a glass oral thermometer placed in his mouth and therefore designated to have his temperature taken rectally with a glass rectal thermometer as well.

When using a glass thermometer to take the temperature of a 8 to 10 year old boy, the larger and thicker 5 inch glass rectal thermometer is used which compensates for a deeper penetration of his proportionately the larger interior dimension and allowing an additional length passing between his clasped "cheeks". It follows that enabling roughly the same length of the non-entry end seen to clear his cheeks which is made even more visible with its increased thickness (which in turn makes its presence much more apparent to an older boy to a much greater degree than a standard 4 inch glass rectal thermometer.

There are a lot more aspects that I can add about using a glass rectal thermometer for taking the temperature of an elementary school age boy.

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Date Posted: Sunday, September 21, 2025, 09:02: am

I remarried just five months ago. We now have his four children and my five, ages ranging from 5 and and a half to 16 years. His children are mostly toddlers and a tween and adolescent and mine are teens and tweens. He is a Naturopathic Doctor.

Let my tell you: none of my kids had had rectal temperatures taken nor ever had an enema or suppository. My husband is very keen to emphasize regular bowel maintenance. He hands out rectal temperatures and enemas like they are candy. I'm trying to learn the high enema so my teens don't have to get their enemas from him. They have emotional melt downs when he takes them to our master bathroom for regular maintenance clean out high enemas. They of course also get an enema at least twice a day when ever one is home and in bed sick, or even for a simple cold he cleans them out. I guess an enema is a great stimulant to the body's ability to kick in the immune system.

It sure has nipped in the bud any attempts by my three girls and two boys of playing sick so they can stay home from school. I have never ever had an enema growing up and they are so intimidating to me but my girls hate their enemas from their stepdad so I'm trying to get past my own fears and give them their enemas.

I can do rectal temperatures but even that was stressful for me at first to make a teen get naked for me to do it.

I have been doing so much research on high enemas and I was shocked to learn you can put a soapy enema in the colon. That must be awful to get a soapy enema and then have to have another rinse enema to bring out the soap. Thankfully we only do one really large enema. But the enema has to be very warm because he says a very warm enema relaxes the abdominal muscles around the colon so the enema can works it's way up deep in them.

So the last few weeks I've been helping him give the enemas (seems like someone is getting an enema about every other day for some reason) and my heart just pounds thinking about how it must feel for the kid to get their colon filled. He says an enema when done right and with enough warmth of water that it is actually soothing to the colon to take in the enema. So then why are my kids freaking out and hyperventilating?

His kids take their enema like there is nothing to it. He says my kids will adjust but we are four months in and numerous enemas and they still have melt downs when they need an enema.

They have adjusted to rectal temperature taking so I guess there is hope they will adjust to the enemas. It just needs more time for them to learn how to calm themselves down. Once they are on the toilet with their enema they calm down immediately and seem relaxed getting the enema back out. Takes a long time to get an enema back out.

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