Rectal temperatures | Was your mom old fashioned be…

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Do you consider your mom "oldschool", or "old fashioned" because she was a strong believer in temperature being taken the old fashioned way... rectally?

Even if you did not complain because you found it a no big thing to fuss about, or if you didn't dare to resist to your strict mother, have you ever thought about it as a kid? I mean, especially if your were switched to oral as late as a teenager, (and to add the humiliation, your friends or other relatives were switched way sooner and younger than you) have you ever wondered that you have to endure the rectal temp takings because:

A.) your mom was raised that way, meaning her mother (your grandma) also did this to her

B.) or you always heard from her that "rectal temperature is the most accurate".

C.) she was overprotective,and thought even if you were old enough to hold the thermometer in your mouth or under your armpit, you are still a little boy/girl in her eyes

Nurse Phillips

@Jacana they do that here. When I’ve had ultrasounds done I’ve always been asked to insert the probe myself.

Spiderbaby

My mom was old fashioned with taking temperatures. I remember one time when I was around 9 being at my aunt's house and my mom feeling my forehead. She said I think I need to take your temperature. My aunt felt both of her kids(a girl and a boy close to my age). We all ended up underwear off and on our tummies with thermometers in our butts. My male cousin kept complaining. When it was time to remove the RT, he was instructed to assume the position while my cousin and I put on our panties and shorts. He was bent over with his hands on the bed. He was instructed to keep that butt up in the air. My aunt used a long paddle with holes drilled in it. My mother told me since we were at my aunts house that would be used if necessary. It wasn't. I saw how red my cousin's butt was. The next day he showed me the big bruise on his heiney.

n/a

Mom was old fashioned she used a glass thermometer until I was in 4th grade

temps

I don't think mom was old-fashioned, it was just the way you normally took the temperature on kids in Sweden in the 80's and early 90's. I suspect she was raised that way herself and I for sure heard more than once that it's the most accurate way 😉

Quirkerz

My mom was practical about it. She always had both oral and a rectal thermometers in the medicine cabinet but would only pull out the rectal when I was really sick. I only recall here taking my temperature rectally once during high school but that was about it. I remember my chemistry teacher sending me to the nurse who called my mom to pick me up. On the ride home she said she’d take my temperature when we got home but I wasn’t expecting it to be rectally. I remember laying in bad watching this little black and white tv on my dresser and my mom walking in with the rectal thermometer and a jar of vaseline. At first I resisted but then just ended up letting her do it and I think that was the last time.