What did your pediatricians thermometer look like?

When old enough to remember anything I’m sure it was digital by that point. Now they have those bigger probe looking thermometers that they use.

@GraceT

From puberty onward I always looked at the jar of thermometers when I went in the exam room. He never used a rectal one on me but I always wondered if he would. Of course my thought was always "Whose bottom will get one? Is it someone I saw in the waiting room?"

You never got one neither at your school/pediatrician nor gyno exams?

The thermometers sat on the counter with in two jars one labeled Rectal and the other Oral. Each jar had liquid in it with several rectal thermometer in the jar and only a few oral. There was also a jar of Vaseline on the counter. I always knew it was going to be rectal temp until i started into puberty. Then a few times even in puberty, it was rectal because my mom did rectal temps at home til 17.

Years back, when I worked for the federal government , I was periodically seen at employee health for various reasons/ appointments.

One nurse I knew had an appointment with me. When I went into her office/ exam room; there in the open was either a IVAC or FILAC electronic temperature unit. It had a red topped probe attached to it. . It was adjacent to the exam table.

She didn’t take my temperature but had she, I suspect she’d have taken it orally even though it was a rectal probe. It did not have a blue topped probe though and usually such units had both. It had my attention ! All I knew was that I was not aware of anyone I knew having had their RT taken so I figured if she did she’d have gone oral. ( could be mistaken, but I digress)

Had she said she was going to or grabbed the unit, I would have said, “ Are you taking my temperature rectally? That’s a rectal probe and I don’t see a blue topped one. “

I knew her a long time and interacted with her on a number of occasions.

I can only imagine what she might have said and how things would have went.

Had it been taken and done rectally, it wouldn’t have been an issue.

I remember them being in a glass holder with a liquid inside the thermometer was glass with a stubby tip this was in the 70’s early 80’s