Yes both in grade school and high school. Usually due to being sick to my stomach or coughing. I also had RT's at my doctor's we'll into my teen years, I was 13 in 1971. 🌡🧴️🧻️
Never happened, but in 7th grade I went to the nurse's office and had my temp taken orally by a fellow student who was helping the nurse out ... and just happened to be the prettiest girl in school!Later that evening I fantasized intensely about her taking it rectally. Would have been so embarassing ... and so exciting!
Actually, I think when I was at kindergarten this would happen - this is back in the early 80s in Hong Kong.
While my temperature was taken rectally at the doctor’s office and at home until I was 18, school was the only place where it was taken orally. While relieved that I didn’t have to go through the embarrassment of a rectal temperature, I hated the oral thermometer as well. It was always kept in a jar of alcohol, and the nurse could have washed it off, but never did. The alcohol taste was disgusting. Also disgusting was knowing that it was under someone else’s tongue before mine and I hated that. While not liking rectal temperature, it didn’t bother me thst the thermometer was in someone else’s rectum before mine.
No only at the doctor's but there was always a mystery surrounding the nurse procedure room that always had a curtain drawn closed when someone was in there.
Nope, but it may have been done at the school that taught K-2 students. I posted on another thread about attending an open house at the new primary school for young students. My brother attended this school and I was dragged along by my parents. The nurse's office had a jar of thermometers and all were stubby tipped. Interestingly, there was a huge window in the nurses office and anyone walking by could see everything inside. I guess they took the kids behind a screen or curtain.
I had mine taken rectally a few times in school. My school used to give physicals & I had mine taken rectally then. There was also the school nurses office who did that as well.I always avoided getting sent there until around the 6th grade. I got sent down there because I had a bad headache & as soon as she shut the door, I knew what was coming next. I didn't have a temperature, but she called my mother & told her to monitor my temp. So when I got home, there was another thermometer waiting for me.
No but I wish they would have. I remember even when I was in school (as early as Kindergarten all the way through high school) whenever I got sick during the day I secretly hoped a secretary or school nurse would tell me to take my pants and underwear down so they could check my temperature. But alas, they always used ear or forehead thermometers.
This was (and isn't) common practice in schools here.If you are ill, you'll go back home. Of if it's severe enough, go to the GP, or hospital. There they most probably will take your temperature if required.Schools just aren't a place for that.
I agree with @DarkWuff that in the Netherlands temps were not taken at school. Usually at home (I guess rectally in a lot of families, at least in mine) and perhaps sometimes at the doctor. But I’ve never experienced that. My temp was checked at home before the doctors appointment.
Not at school, but in kindergarten (70s, East Germany). I well remember scenes where a sick child was lying on a bench with his pants and briefs pulled down and the thermometer peeking out of his bottom. That was perfectly normal.
For me it was never taken in school, i was born to late for that.at home unfortunately only sometimes and later never rectally.but i liked it, so i often do it by myself since many many years
@Fonatna...I hated the oral thermometer as well. It was always kept in a jar of alcohol, and the nurse could have washed it off, but never did. The alcohol taste was disgusting. Also disgusting was knowing that it was under someone else’s tongue before mine and I hated that. While not liking rectal temperature, it didn’t bother me thst the thermometer was in someone else’s rectum before mine.That's an interesting point. I always thought the thermometers were cleaned (probably with alcohol) before being put in the jar of alcohol. I know they can't autoclave them, but figured they washed them before putting in alcohol.The rectal thermometers must've been cleaned I'm sure, before being reused.I know in my pediatrician's office, they had a small graduated cylinder with a cotton ball at the bottom, filled with alcohol for the oral thermometers, and a similar cylinder with some yellow/orange goo (I imagine lube) filled with rectal thermometers. But next to those was a flat tray where they put the used thermometers. So at least there, they didn't immediately put them back into use
No I never had my temperature taken in school at all. If my teacher in elementary school or later school nurse felt I was sick they just called my mother or grandmother and someone came and picked me up.
I cannot recall my temperature ever being taken rectally. Neither at home, school, hospital, nor doctor's office. That would definitely be something to remember.
Back in the early 80s when all pediatricians still used glass rectal thermometers, BD made these plastic sheaths similar to a thermometer condom. They came in a paper wrapping that looked like a band aid, and after pushing the thermometer through the wrapper, the paper and extra plastic peeled off from the perforated sides leaving a plastic covered rectal thermometer. The plastic sheath was lubricated and provided a protective barrier. If they didn’t use enough lube, you could feel the rough edges of the plastic seams on your delicate botty. After the procedure, the sheath was discarded and the thermometer was wiped down with alcohol. That’s what I remember.
Never had my temperature taken rectally in school. At home, my grandparents and the doctors office I recall having the rectal thermometer used on me. One memory at the doctors office is of laying on my stomach on the exam table, underwear pulled down and a nurse with her hand on my bottom holding the thermometer. I recall my mother sitting in the exam room and praising me for being a big boy as I usually commenced to fussing as soon as I saw a thermometer, suppository or the black nozzle headed towards my fanny. I was feeling proud and grown up on the ride home, but that all changed the next time the enema bag came out of the linen closet.
One time I became sick in first grade. I asked my teacher for permission to go to the bathroom but I didn't make it and vomited in the hallway. I was then sent to the nurses office. The nurse questioned me and then said she was going to take my temperature. She then went to a cabinet and took out a thermometer and a jar of Vaseline. I was told that she was going to take my temperature rectally and that afterwards she would be calling my mother to come and pick me up from school. She told me to undo my pants and lie down on my tummy. Then she pulled them down and proceeded with the procedure. Turned out i didn't have a fever but she determined i was constipated. When my mom arrived the nurse told her I needed something to help me poop and that a laxative or suppository would probably do the trick. My mom thanked her and said if that didn't work I was going to get an enema.
In high school I overheard the track coach talking about a recent meet where one of the runners got really sick from the heat and had to have her temperature taken rectally by medical staff. So it was a legitimate medical necessity in an emergency situation, but I still can't imagine having that happen!
Me never, but I know that in our school nursery they did. I fell in the yard once and sprained my knee. My teacher sent me to the nursery. Without knocking on the door I just opened and inside was a boy about my age pulling up his underwear and short. The nurse shouted on me to close the door. Soon the boy came out and the nurse called me in. Once inside I saw on the metal tray a rectal thermometer, jar of vaseline and an opened suppository wrap. I was 10 years old. As far as I remember this was also the age limit at the hospitals and clinics. Below this age only RT was done.
Never at school. But i vaguely recall my mom doing it. And now my medfet doc does, and sometimes I will to myself too.
Grade school yes, once or twice; but not after that. But everywhere else it was, and is always rectal
Yes after I fainted at yard assembly on a very hot day. I was taken to the sick bay and had my temperature taken while I was only partially awake. I was one of several who fainted