Tops and color of the thermometers used on you rectally.

Came across two of what I consider great images of the "barely teen/of age/18" theme girls having their rectal temperatures taken. One was Lacey Blue (18eighteen magazine) "The doctor took my temperature up my butt!" and "Shelly's sick room, Live Young Girls magazine. Both girls had glass mercury rectal thermometers with blue no-roll tops used and inserted (great close ups) as both girls were in a somewhat knee chest position and the camera in close on the inserted instruments in their respective shoots.

Some here might be familiar with these particular shoots that were done, one even being a video.

So, can you remember if the last time your rectal temperature was taken if the thermometer had a blue or red top or no color at all?

Thermometer that my mom used to my rectal temperature had no color at all. It was clear.

The one my mom used on me was a rectal pear shaped bulb and it had no color on it but numbers were blue to 98.6 then red to 106.

I have bd flat model 150 it has only black numbers and no color on the none bulb end just rounded and clear

Red cylindrical holder, the one end was a red triangle with the marking rectal,and b-d other end silver pear shaped

My thermometer growing up was a B-D, and it had a blue triangle tip, but it clearly said “rectal” on the side. It was in a white plastic screw top case.

Last time I had my temperature taken rectally with a glass thermometer, other than by my wife, was in the hospital after I got seriously injured on a snowmobile. I only remember the nurse sticking the thermometer up my butt once because I stayed sedated. I just felt groggy and care free. I was on my side and I didn't know why she was reaching behind me. My butthole felt a little uncomfortable for a second, but I was too drugged to realize she just stuck a thermometer up there. After I started getting more woke up and alert, I noticed a thermometer with a red plastic case on the counter by my bed. The thermometer had a stubby tip and a domed shaped red end. There were a couple small packets of Surgilube laying beside it with alcohol wipes and exam gloves.

What is the best rectal thermometer to buy. I use an oral thermometer right now with the regular tip, which works and it does ok. But truly I am trying to find d a truly rectal thermometer with the pear shaped tip on it for the true vintage feel from back in the day as a child having that cold glass thermometer put up my little bottom. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Our family rectal thermometer came in a white "pencil -case" holder. The top was also white and a screw-off type

that I remember would squeak as mom would twirl to open and remove the rectal thermometer. It's bulb was round at the end and the thermometer was marked "stubby/safety" on the side. The stem was not colored red like some rectal thermometers, but was rounded off.

My thermometer is in a pencil shaped tube with a blue top

Glass mercury mostly red no roll tops. Some no roll blue.

Electronic thermometer units like FILAC and IVAC probe types used to take my rectal temperature had red tops. ( Note: had a check for something as an employee of the gov’t in the employee health facility. In the office with the nurse I noticed she had an IVAC unit with a red topped probe. I knew her pretty well and though I didn’t ask; I think if I had, she would have put me on the exam table and rectally taken my temperature. )

Got a few this week via auction site. Will post images.

The top on my current thermometer is blue

I can remember seeing the different colored thermometers at the clinic from when I was around six years old. There were three of them and they sat on the counter across from the exam table in small glass containers. There was one with a yellow cap, a blue cap and a red cap. The red one was the one that was used for the rectal temperatures. I can remember watching the nurse to see which one she was going to grab and feeling relieved when it was the blue one, that was the one that she used under my arm.

When I was a kid, I remember we had an Eisle brand white-backed thermometer with a pear-shaped silver bulb. That thermometer was used in my household probably before I was born. I remember a couple of other stubby bulb white-backed thermometers, including one with a red top, that my mother purchased after the other thermometers were dropped and broke.

When I became college-aged and later, I bought many rectal thermometers for my own collection - white-backed, yellow-backed, some with red tops. Some with short stubby bulbs, some with stubby bulbs that were slightly longer. I used all these thermometers on myself and to take the rectal temperatures of the 55 or so men that I've met over the years.

The thermometers that went up my behind had that shape

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I recall at least one with temperatures about 38°C of a different colour from those below, one with red liquid, I think my parents had one with mercury and another with another liquid. This all gets mixed in my head.

European thermometers don't have red/blue tops.

I have the yellow red triangle tip, clear with red tip and a clear blue triangle tip with pear shaped bulbs

Mine is a blue triangle with a pear tip

I suspect we were all profoundly focused on rectal temperature taking to have such vivid recollections of the instrument and the process, in some of our cases, many decades later. I know many of us still have those thermometers from our youth and continue to enjoy using them. In my case it's a B-D Redflash with a plain top and pear-shaped bulb. It's stored in a glass tube with a metal cap and pencil clip. Still functioning perfectly!

While I'm at it I do have a more unusual eBay purchase: A plain cardboard box labeled "Thermometer, Clinical, Human, Rectal, (6). Inside are six Tem-Con stubby bulb red topped thermometers in a bubble wrap sheet. The box also is labeled with what appears to be a NATO stock number which would make it military. Just what every modern army needs!

That is a great find and purchase! I hope your bottom gets to try each one!

The main thermometer used on me at home had a slight triangular tip, but it was glass colored (clear). I remember seeing red-tipped (rectal) thermometers at my pediatricians office in the glass holder with alcohol in it. There was also a blue-tipped oral version that was next to it, but my mom saw to it that it was the red-tipped one for me every time.

The ones I remember at home and the Doctor’s office was just glass thermometer with a stubby pear shaped end .

I don't remember the rectal thermometers that were used on me being any colour other than clear with a red line maybe to show the actual temp BUT I think on many occasions when they were eventually pulled out of my little puckered hole having been twiddled around for several minutes they were coated and brown tipped! That might well have earned me a spanking and prolonged stay across the lap to receive a nasty suppository followed by a thorough clean out!

For me it’s a modern digital rectal thermometer specifically the Welch Allen SureTemp Plus 692 Thermometer with the rectal probe. I love how long the probe is and I can deeply insert it into my bottom. I’ve posted a recent picture of it in my bottom fully inserted while I was in a pampers diaper.

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The thermometers that my parents had were similar to those designs

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There was no "color code". I once read the leaflet that came with one and it could be used in the mouth, in the rectum or in the armpit. At home it was used only rectally.

It had a green top.

It was always this one I got up the butt when I was a little girl:

https://www.meds.se/telfo-febertermometer-andtarm (Rectal use only).

I still get a flush of embarrassment when I see it in the store or something.

Nowadays it’s this one, or at least was, once I became an adult:

https://www.apoteket.se/produkt/telfo-febertermometer-1-st-344912/ (One that I brought myself, it’s for oral, axillary and rectal use)

So you can imagine my embarrassment when I was in the store with my boyfriend (a day I was running a high fever) and he brought this one home with us:

https://www.apotekhjartat.se/varumarken/hjartats/hjartats-febertermometer-andtarm (Rectal use only, again..!)

I don't remember the one Mom used, but in medicine, there is (was?) a standard system for thermometers and probe covers. Blue was for oral, red was for rectal.

The top was clear, round glass.

This is the rectal thermometer that my mom used on me, and I in turn have used it taking my husband's and kids' rectal temperature on quite a few occasions. It's seen four different buttholes more times than it probably cares to count in it's 40 year life. My little boy hated this thing, but he's usually irritable as a mongoose when he's sick anyway. The thing about using a rectal thermometer is it removes all doubt about a fever, and this thermometer is probably more accurate than my $400 Welch-Allyn that hasn't worked right in years. The old package this came in had a price of $1.75 at Revco.

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When my husband and I were married in 1984, my mom gave me several items from our family medicine drawer, including a Taylor “instanta rectal” thermometer. Amazingly, it’s still spot-on accurate.

It's been inserted in four rectums through the years when I felt it was needed — our two daughters now grown (in their 30s), and on occasion, my husband and mine.

Back in 2020, when our older daughter suddenly got very sick with the Covid virus, we quickly brought her back home. I was in major state of anxiety when she was shaking so badly, and my first thought was getting an accurate temperature. I’m still a throwback to the old days, so as soon as I got her bedded down in her old room, I skipped the digital that I got the Taylor thermometer and jar of Vaseline.

Her temp was just slightly below 103. I sat on the side of the bed and shook the thermometer down and took it again, exactly the same result. Jen‘s fever subsided after 48 hours, but it was one of the most harrowing experiences that I ever had as a mom.

PS — The Taylor thermometer has no color tip. The bulb is easily recognizable as a rectal thermometer, and it's inscribed "instanta rectal." Can actually get a true temp in about 90 seconds, but I've followed the 3-minute rule.

I have my childhood thermometer. It's a BD with a pear-shaped bulb and a clear tip.