Are Rectal Temperatures Dying Out?

It does still exists in hospitals.. using the covered electronic probe. I had jaw surgery when I was 49. So of course when the male nurse came in the room to do my vitals thats where the probe went. On my side and slid up my rectum. Since it was jaw surgery couldnt really fight it I coundt talk and it coudnt be done orally so briefs went down!!! It was taken 4 times a day and at night. Until I could open my mouth.

Any guys get it taken that way by surprise or in a medical situation.. Tell me about it. How did it do?

I believe so, with all the digital thermometer and the scanning ones…even regular thermometers are dying out technology is killing everything.

In 1984 when I was critically injured in an accident and suffered severe facial lacerations and a broken jaw, I spent two weeks in the hospital and lost count of the number of times that nurses inserted a thermometer probe in my butt.

It didn’t take long to get a reading, about 15 seconds until I heard a quiet beep. I hardly felt it, except for the lubricant they used, which felt chilly. The painful part was when they turned me on my side to insert the probe, because I had multiple physical injuries.

At first, they took temps around the clock, Including during the night when I was running a fever. They checked on me around midnight and again at 4 AM. Mostly I was medicated and was hardly aware of what the nurses were doing, except I could feel the lubricant on my bottom.

(I My husband jokes if that experience didn’t spark a rectal temp fetish, nothing would! Lol)

Nowadays, I’m sure they have the technology that they won’t need to take rectal temps like they did on me nearly 40 years ago.

Well in health care most definitely with the advances of more modern noninvasive technolgy with infrared tampanics thermometers widely used in hospitals and doctors practices

For hypothermia or heat stroke, rectal temps are still used, from my understanding. I recently went to a clinic triage and a nurse picked up a digital probe and said “oops that’s rectal, you don’t want that!” So apparently it’s common enough to have rectal probes laying about. I should’ve asked her why it was there but didn’t. I just commented on getting my temp taken that way growing up.

I take my own rectal temp when I’m under the weather, it’s pretty easy to do and accurate compared with trying to get a proper forehead scan or ear temp.

It's not shouted on the rooftop-but the standard electronic thermometer is still used by parents for fever checking infants to 7 year olds--rectal temps.

It seems like they’re a part of the past, never to be seen again. Even the number of new people on this forum has decreased in the rectal temp category. And based on what I’ve seen, it’s a fetish dominated by men, much more than women. I’d like to believe that it’s the opposite, with regard to gender.

I have read a lot here and in other threads about rectal temperature. I was never measured like that as a child. At least as a child that I remember. Always in the armpit. Although I saw this once, in a Pattaya hospital, the child was about 6 years old

Yes in Asia still more popular than in Europe for example. Here RT is gradually fading away.

Yeah. I have no real memories of them happening to me as a child of the late 90s/early 2000s (born in 1995) but I definitely knew what they were. I'm not sure most people younger than 20 or so do.

My wife was an ER nurse for ten years and she said that she did a lot of rectal temps, mostly when this one provider was working who was very old school and always wanted an rt. She told me she had to do it on people from college age to elderly and everyone in between. She doesn't really like my RT fetish and always told me how she was apologetic to the patient when she said they had to do an rt. So while I don't believe they are as widespread or common as they used to be, I think that rectal temps still happen quite a bit, in both pediatrics and adults. Maybe not in the clinical setting so much anymore but definitely in an emergency situation.

@Mlem43 wrote :

…. She doesn't really like my RT fetish and always told me how she was apologetic to the patient when she said they had to do an rt.

I’m sorry that your wife doesn’t reciprocate your interest in RTs. (It’s the same with my wife, who has humoured me a few times, but doesn‘t enjoy it either.) On the other hand, I actually find the idea that she is sorry that she *has* to get a rectal reading on her patients to be particularly exciting. There is surely not much eroticism to the procedure in an ER setting, but the idea makes for a nice fantasy, at least for me.

They won't in my house

It is still possible to get an RT in a clinical setting. You just have to ask beforehand (And for all you that are over the top with your fetish, don't come across as a creepy perv).

Im afraid it will die out because of the technological improvements. Even if the accurancy of the alternative measuring points is worse I assume that the equipment is calibrated to compensate for this kind of measuring errors. However that technology cannot compensate for the mega orgasm when pushing a old fashion mercury rectal thermometer in and out of my bum.

I'm certain that nurses in hospitals today would not be waking me in the middle of the night to stick a thermometer probe up my behind, like they did nearly 40 years ago. Joy! Technology is good for something!!

They’re alive and well on this forum. Unless you have access to people’s lives, by taking polls, or surveys, how would you know what’s going on in the general population? There’s a hip hop dance titled:” Not the thermometer.” Is it based on rectal temperature? Sounds like it is. Strange that it’s popular with young people. As far as healthcare, I haven’t seen evidence of rectal temperature taking in the United States in decades. Everything is done with an oral probe, or a forehead scanner. According to recent internet information, they’re still used often in foreign countries. But according to the foreign posts that I’ve seen, they’re no longer used.

I believe so, new thermometers have replaced the need.

In most instances I would say yes but I as an adult had rectal temp. taking on a couple of occasion's. In seventies I due to oral pain from a infected tooth went to a hospital e.r. seeking some form of relief from the non-stop agony I was experiencing and the result became a unexpected command to remove my shoes and climb up onto the examining table onto my left side whereupon I was next instructed by the nurse to unbuckle my pants belt and with her assistance they were briskly lowered below my knees as she pushed my right leg upward in position and I next embarrassingly had the lubed thermometer inserted into my rectum with her comment that due to my mouths condition this was the best method even though it was baby style followed by a humorous bit of giggle from her me now feeling blushed from a bit of humiliation. Thinking my ordeal had ended I next was told to remain as I was and she exited the room soon to return with a small tray with two hypodermics one for combating the infection and the other for pain citing maybe they would help me in getting a good night's rest until I could get aid from a dentist the next day. I next was positioned onto my tummy after the thermometers removal and told of slight fever and given the injections in each buttock cheek with the pre-inject alcohol odor permeating under my nose. This was when I was in my late twenties. Secondly forward to myself in my late sixties in a pre-op room for a lodged stone in a bile duct post gall bladder removal with my wife present as the nurse took my rectal temp. with digital variety and inserted a pre-op suppository for suspected infection. Talk about embarassment in me due to both the nurse with her administration and my wife viewing these procedures. Yes in some instances rectal temps are still done. Fretter

No it’s not dying out. They are now performed with a quick digital plastic sleeved probe. Infants and anyone with possible life threatening ailments receive rectal temps. Sometimes exactness is a must, and there’s no better place to get that.

I have several young nurse friends who take their own children’s temps rectally. (I’ve asked). I’ve also personally received rectal temps at Mayo Clinic and in the ER here at home while in my late 40’s and mid 50’s.

So if it’s dying out, I certainly haven’t seen it. It just now happens in almost a blink of the eye.