Rectal thermometer to stimulate defecation

My mother told me that when I was little, she sometimes would try to trigger defecation by inserting the rectal thermometer (presumably lubricated with Vaseline). I don't recall this (but I do recall glycerin suppositories, which continued much later).

Has it happened to you ? How was it done ? Was only the tip of the thermometer inserted, or deeper ? Was it left in place or moved ?

I can recall my mother trying something like that with cotton swabs, they were generally left inserted a little, and moved later.

I don’t know if it was ever done to me, but I know my aunt has mentioned doing it when her son was around a year old. A nurse friend of mine also mentioned doing it to her children when they are infants as a first resort for treating constipation.

I seem to recall reading in a child care book years ago that a rectal thermometer lubricated with soap and inserted into a baby's rectum can be used to stimulate a bowel movement. I don't recall my mother ever doing it to me, although she did sometimes insert a large carrot shaped soap stick carved from a bar of Ivory soap soaked in warm water to make it soft and slimy when she had run out of glycerin suppositories.

When I was about three Mom was taking my temperature rectally. After about a minute I had the urge to go to the toilet. When the thermometer removed the urge was gone. I am sure that if the thermometer was put into me to induce a bowel movement it would have worked.

Rectal stimulation just inside the anus causes a peristalsis reaction that is similar to reverse swallowing motion in the rectal vault.

A lubricated rectal thermometer is used because it’s usually what’s at hand, and is small enough to enter an infant’s anus. (An infant will often urinate and or defecate when receiving a rectal temperature.

A bulb syringe nozzle containing glycerin can also be used on babies and toddlers. A gloved finger does the job on larger behinds.

People with spinal cord injuries use a “digi-stim” technique to make themselves poop. They use either a gloved finger or a specialized device that simulates a finger. It’s lubricated, inserted and gently moved round and round in a stirring motion for just a few seconds, which usually enough to initiate a bowel movement.

Yes, a rectal thermometer was/is often used to remedy infant constipation. I’m sure it still likely is. A modern digital thermometer will work just as well.

Mom always did when I was lil. I have on occasion done it to my son to stimulate a bowel movement. Works if you don't have glycerine suppostories.

I dated a woman once whose sister was a smart ass with a potty mouth. My girlfriend once admitted to be constipated to both of us and her sister pointed at me and said "just have him finger your butthole!" My girlfriend was not happy with that comment. I never asked her sister if that's how she cured her own constipation but I wish I had.

This method was not applied to me, but I have heard of it. My cousin (female) used to measure her son's rectal temperature up to 6 years old (in my country, measurement in the rectum is usually used up to 1-2 years of age of the child). She said that she measures the temperature easily and quickly, and the additional benefit is easy defecation after measuring the temperature in this way.

It was very old-fashioned way to triggered bowel movements. In my case, it was used daily basis on my chronic constipation. Sometimes tip was going little deeper (to 1/4 length of thermometer), as well with twirling them inside or used soap/JJ shampoo. As I know, this method have very long story and was by my mother from nurse. And it was used on me by long time (till I was 5 or 6).

I remember my grandmother who was a nurse did this once or twice to me.She used an old glass thermo. It went deeper inside as usual, and it was twirled.I don't remember how old I was maybe 7-8.

The times that I insert a fecal loop for a sample sometimes the patients says she feels the urge during because I really rub and put pressure deep on the walls of the rectum to get a good sample. This action will cause an urge to go, especially since the loop goes in MUCH deeper than a thermometer and the walls are stimulated.

I saw my mom using it on my baby sister. I think it works best with babies.

Older kids normally need more than just a poke with an RT. This is where enemas and suppositories come in handy.

My mum first tried with the cotton swab, and if the feces were too hard she tried with the thermometer and sometimes she even helped with her finger.

My kids are in their mid-late 20’s. Never did it, never done to me, never actually heard of it until reading this. I hope no mom who ever tried this with a glass thermometer wound up with pieces or pointed ends of exquisitely sharp broken glass in their kid‘s anus and rectum. Not to mention mercury spillage.

Eric, MD

Never (at least I don't remember) having it done to me - and we never used a thermometer or any anal insertion device on our kids To stimulate bowel movements. We just yelled at them to scare the shit out. 😆. I'd agree with @ericmacson that using a glass thermometer to do this could result in some unwanted and serious consequences.

Not with a thermometer, but I've seen Nurse's Aides (not nurses) use their fingers to try to stimulate a BM to a hospital patient - even to the point of digging out an impacted bowel.

@gwhap, @ericmacson: What I was told about was not something that would risk breaking a thermometer more than taking a rectal temperature. It was basically like taking a temperature and hoping the intrusion would result in a reflex to poop.

No thermometer, I was told that a tiny 1 oz syringe filled with water and a little glycerin was effective…..

I remember reading a story in a fetish publication where a woman used a rectal thermometer coated with wet ivory soap on a constipated adult baby boy before giving him a large hot water enema

I'm pretty sure you've all heard the story of the constipated mathematician: worked it out with a pencil.

Sorrrrryyy!

I remember this being done to me too.

I liked it

I witnessed my mother do this to my brother and sister when they were babies she would insert just the tip of the thermometer and twist . Im sure she did this to me also but by the time I was old enough to remember she just used a Vaselined finger on me . She would make me sit on the toilet and lean forward and put my head between her legs then she would insert her finger and move it in a circular motion for a few moments and tell me to push leaving her finger inside me while I pushed . If I failed to produce a bowel movement after 3or4 attempts she would insert a soap suppository this continued every other day or at least twice a week until I was around 12. I began to love the way it made me feel and always gave me an erection even before I started enjoying it .

yup I often got the finger/push treatment as well, often before my daily enema or suppository

Always gave me a stiffie