Getting your temperature taken rectally after the age of 21 and older.

I thought that rectal temperatures were for infants and toddlers. I was an infant and a toddler when my mom took my temperature rectally. I think that it is strange for teenagers to get their temperature taken rectally. I have read that rectal temperatures are adults that have had heat strokes. Why are people over the age of 21 and older still getting their temperature taken rectally today either at home or in a doctor's office? I know that the reading is accurate but, why are they still getting their temperature taken that way today? Is it because they are use to it? Why?

I really don't think it happens much unless for medical reasons or personal preference at home. There are a lot of story telling out there....

Actually, in most cases, 18 is considered a legal adult. You have the right as an adult to decide where to take your temperature, but don't expect anyone to oblige you, unless it's mutually agreeable. Most adults would consider it to be a weird request, and it could be a deal breaker in a relationship.

It's the way you were brought up and personal preference.

I thought that rectal temperatures were for infants and toddlers. I was an infant and a toddler when my mom took my temperature rectally. I think that it is strange for teenagers to get their temperature taken rectally. I have read that rectal temperatures are adults that have had heat strokes. Why are people over the age of 21 and older still getting their temperature taken rectally today either at home or in a doctor's office? I know that the reading is accurate but, why are they still getting their temperature taken that way today? Is it because they are use to it? Why?

They're not. It's fantasy (or play).

As a kid who was in the hospital at least a half-dozen times during the late 50s and first half of the 60s, I was often subjected to rectal temps sometimes daily. And when I was given enemas at home, my rectal temp was taken first before the nozzle was inserted. This was routine practice until I was 13.

When I was 12, I was in the hospital to have my tonsils taken out. The morning of the tonsilectomy the nurse came in rolled me on to my side and then asked me if I wanted to put the thermometer in my bottom or wanted her to do it. I said I would and she handed me the thermometer with some kind of lubricant on the tip. I inserted it in myself but the nurse took it out. From that point on, I started enjoying taking my temperature with the rectal thermometer and that enjoyment still exist today.

When my uncle took over giving me my "usual" enemas around age 10, he would often take my rectal temp first. He said something about detecting an infection in my bowels and "playing it safe". If my temp was high (fever), he would not give me the enemas. My aunt, a nurses aide, would check me out by taking my temp orally to see if I had the flu or something. I remember a brief conversation (or maybe an argument??) between my aunt and uncle with regards to taking rectal temps. Don't recall if it was a general discussion about the topic or if they were talking about me.

When I take my enemas today, I ALWAYS take my rectal temp with an old-fashion rectal thermometer. It adds to the enjoyment of the enemas, for both health and pleasure. And when I enjoy enemas with a partner, usually a male, I insist on having my temp taken first and also take his before giving him any enemas.

So, for me, rectal thermometers, suppositories and enemas all seem synonymous with one another. Getting your temp taken at any age, over or under 21, seems to fall into a pattern of doing things the old-fashion way. I don't trust electronic devices because they're not always consistent and subject to faults; glass rectal thermometers, on the other hand, are always accurate. And, by the way, I don't use the mercury types anymore for safety reasons. I prefer the "newer" rectal thermometers with the red liquid indicator. Easier to read and not as dangerous as mercury if they get broken.

It's mostly just in play and fantasy and for reallife the RT method really doesn't happen anymore unless you do have a heat stoke then it makes sense

It could be medically necessitated. Or, it could be by request, as some care givers are not reluctant to take a post 21 year old person's rectal temperature if asked.

Or......it could be part of an active imagination. We all want what we want out of our fetishes.

It could be medically necessitated. Or, it could be by request, as some care givers are not reluctant to take a post 21 year old person's rectal temperature if asked.

FANTASY. In modern western medicine, there's almost never a need for a rectal temperature. If you're sick enough for constant temperature monitoring, they're going to use either a urinary catheter or endotracheal tube with temperature sensor built in. Most ambulatory adult care facilities no longer even have rectal sensors for their electronic thermometers. Mercury thermometers are no longer used due to the toxic nature of the mercury if it breaks.

There would only be two reasons for anyone over 21 who might have their rectal temperatures taken these days. First, it might be done to get a core body temperature as medically necessary. The second would be (as in the case of a lot of members here, including myself), to satisfy a fetish. Rectal temperatures are seldom taken these days and if they would be, as you mentioned, on infants and toddlers as medically necessary. Even older incapacitated children might be subject to an ear or temporal reading. In days gone by (about the late 1970s and prior), rectal temperatures up until the teenage years were still somewhat common (the last time I had mine taken rectally by a caregiver was in the early to mid '70s at around age 11 or 12). From that time on, the only way I got my rectal temperature taken was either as part of a solo play session or (very rarely) from a "play nurse". On my last two medical visits, a temporal and ear thermometer was used. Medical professionals these days seem to make modesty a priority. My last procedure was a colonoscopy. They used general anesthesia on me this time to ensure I was completely out for the procedure compared to my last one which was only sedation, where I did experience part of the procedure (which I did not find objectionable). I personally would not ask a medical professional to take my rectal temperature as part of a medical procedure because of this.

People who get their temperature taken rectally after age 21 is caused by having a heat stroke and the doctors wanting to know how hot the person got when the heat stroke happened and for that accurate reading. Person will also never know what was going on and not being able to fight the nurse during the process of getting the accurate reading. Rectal temperatures for people over the age of 21 can be for people who are unable to hold the oral thermometer under their tongues.

Rectal temperatures of teens and adults happen in the fantasy minds of the posters.

Other electronic means are virtually always used, even if the patient is unconscious.

In my opinion, if a 21-year-old gets a rectal temperature, that is because first, they grew up in a family having their temperature taken that way. Second, they could have requested it. Third, they like the way it feels, and fourth; just like I said under another topic; heat strokes.

Kermit 79 said

In my opinion, if a 21-year-old gets a rectal temperature, that is because first, they grew up in a family having their temperature taken that way. Second, they could have requested it. Third, they like the way it feels, and fourth; just like I said under another topic; heat strokes.

That's NOT happening in a hospital and almost certainly not in a doctor's office.

That's NOT happening in a hospital and almost certainly not in a doctor's office.

If a 21-year-old had a heat stroke or blacked out, how would their temperature be taken at the hospital today? Do you know?

Here in the UK if you are in CCU ( Critical Care Unit ) or HDU ( High Dependency Unit) you are automatically wired up to a heart monitor, oxygen saturations monitor, blood pressure machine and a rectal temperature probe. You are either unconscious or extremely sick to need this level of care.

The probe they use in my hospital is white silicon. It is inserted into the rectum. It doesn't feel like a thermometer in place and you can move position whilst it's in there. It's fairly small. This too is connected to the monitor which shows all your vitals continuously.

Nik

I've worked in the medical tents in several marathons and triathalon competitions.

They've all been equipped with a tympanic thermometer and a rectal thermometer.

I've only known the tympanic to be used, although using the rectal was discussed once. But I assume they'd use it if they had to.

As mentioned would if at all happen in a non fetish scenario only if it no other method was available in an extreme case. For those who enjoy the thought being an adult in a medical setting having it done is and likely will always be a fantasy one could play out.