At What Age Did Rectal Temps Stop For You

At home never stopped. When I was little, I used to ask my mom to change, but she always said no; by the time I was a teenager and she asked me, I didn’t want to switch anymore. So it was checked rectally until I went to cellege.

Fortunately for me it never started.

When I changed to a woman pediatrician around 1970 when I was 9 or 10. When in the hospital at 14 for pneumonia they still checked us rectally and that was my last rectal temp

Never started for me, thank goodness. I dread to think that the same thermometer was used after switching to oral. 😢 Are you sure that is a new thermometer mum?

"I dread to think that the same thermometer was used after switching to oral. 😢 "

With kinks like I got, that's just another day on the playground.