Rectal thermometers to help insert suppositories

Has anyone ever used a rectal thermometer to insert (or help insert) a rectal suppository and then left it to help hold it in your rectum so it doesn’t slip out?!

In a word, NO. A nurse taught me to use a gloved finger or finger cot — and if you’re doing it right, you want to insert the suppository as far up as possible, pushed against the wall of the rectum and held there a few seconds so it begins to melt faster. You can't do that with a bulb of a rectal thermometer.

No I have had my temperature taking with a rectal thermometer as a child. Once as a teenager at the hospital emergency room. When mom gave us a suppository she just used her finger to push it in as deep as her finger went and held it in place for a couple seconds before sliding her finger out same as the nurse at the pediatrician office and the hospital

Whenever I put suppository on I have a push reflex out, so my mom would use her finger or thermometer to push deep and hold inside. I do this to this day, otherwise the suppository comes back after insertion.

Using a thermometer to hold the suppository in place sounds a bit dangerous. I prefer the use of a finger inserted right behind the suppository, and holding inside until there is no chance of it being expelled.

Oh my gosh!! It sounds SOOO DANGEROUS!!! DANGER!! DANGER!!

NOOOOOO!!!!

Where's my plastic bubble and safe space?

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