Can you take your temperature like this?

I have once heard that you can take your temperature in between your thighs, like, you spread your legs, put the thermometer between them and then you close your legs around the thermometer, is that true?

When doctor's first started monitoring temperature, they simply had you hold a thermometer in your HANDS for 20 minutes. Don't think it worked very well though. So why not between your thighs.

And... you're seriously asking what the most accurate way is in the Rectal Temperatures board?

Of course. As a kid, I mostly had my temp taken under my arm. I dont see why the groin would be any different. You're just measuring body heat.

I remember reading in a health care book as a kid that you could take a temperature in the groin, much like doing it under the arm. I guess it makes sense, though I would think it would lack the accuracy of oral or rectal and doesn’t exactly save the patient from being as exposed as they would for a rectal temp.

I've never heard of a temperature being taken in the groin. For a woman, vaginal temps. might be accurate, but if you're already undressed, just stick the thermometer in your butt, and be done with it. The anus is a universal body part which the thermometer was designed for anyway.

Rectal is top quality for infants and toddlers and the rear end is a lot warmer.

The thermometer can be placed in the groin, similarly to the way a thermometer can be placed under the arm but it isn't very accurate.

I think taking the temperature in the groin is used most commonly on infants.

The best way to get a core temperature reading is placing the thermometer into the rectum. Do it any other place on the body it won't be as accurate.

Best and most accurate way to get the best reading is rectal closest to the core. When i was growing up always rectal and I remember being like 8 had a high fever and over heard my mom.talking the doctor and she said yes I took it rectal so I got the most accurate. Me being a mom.myself still find myself doing rectal on my son.

A groin temperature is going to be similar in accuracy to an underarm (axillary), or temporal (forehead) temperature, usually around a degree lower than oral. There's a new medically accepted policy of taking newborn temperatures underarm. But I'm dead set against this because it's just not accurate. I started taking my kids' temperatures with a tympanic scanner when they each turned 3. I did this to spare them the discomfort of getting a thermometer stuck up their butt. But if I suspected a fever when the ear scanner didn't show one, I wasn't hesitant to use the rectal thermometer. You have to be careful judging a fever when dealing with small children. It's better to let them cry through a couple minutes of mild discomfort than to let a dangerous fever spike go unchecked.

Yes, from 5-6 years my mom but also my aunt and many times my babysitter took my temperature in my groin. They told me to sit down, lowered my pants and underpants to the knee, put the thermometer in my groin and told me to cross my legs. After that, they placed their hand on my thigh while we waited five minutes. It's not like rectal temperature, but still a very nice feeling, of stimulating intimacy. It is nice to feel the hands of a woman touching you in the groin area, the cold thermometer on the delicate skin and the order: "cross your leg". And whoever puts the thermometer on you sits next to you and looks at her face.

I always thought it a bit weird that when I was a small kid back in the 1950's and the doctor was called out I would have my temperature taken. He would get me to sit on the dinning room table with my trousers and pants taken off and then slip the cold thermometer down past my testicles along my groin. I would then have to sit like that for a few minutes and then the old boy would pull the thermometer out and check.

I have discussed it in the past with my wife who is always a bit negative and she thought he was a bit of a perv doing it, but good to know it was common practice and normal as he was a decent old chap who suffered terribly in a Japanese Prison during WW2.

However I have always had this strange fantasy of having it taken like that now as an adult while sat naked on the examining table. Also I have never in all my years had a rectal temperature taken.

To Doctor Jack: I agree that it was lousy done by a man! I would not have tolerated it!

The person who puts the thermometer must always be a woman! My babysitter was a beautiful 22-23 year old girl and I loved it when I measured the temperature in the groin, but never by a male doctor!

Jerry22, I couldn't agree more, it should have been a woman but at the age of 3 - 7 years I didn't have much of a say in matters. The fantasy now of course would be for it to be a woman doctor. The very thought of a woman doctor moving my penis and testicles to one side and then sliding the cold glass thermometer down my groin is just so special.