The future of rectal temperature

I was just investigating Bluetooth and other smartphone thermometers. There are some interesting devices and apps for temperature taking, and I have noticed that most of them are mentioned to be rectal temperature able. The apps can keep track of your temperature history, and the temp histories of your family members and friends!

I really love the old glassware, but I’m also willing to take the new with the old! How about you?

https://www.imedicalapps.com/2015/12/review-vicks-smart-temp-wireless-bluetooth-thermometer/amp/

There must still be a future in rectal temperatures, because I just heard 4 pre-teen neighbor girls reciting this jumprope song! They certainly seem to know enough about it!

It goes:

“ THERMOMETER!

Mom gets the thermometer and brings it to my bed

She pulls down my panties and then my face turns red

THERMOMETER!

Mom lubes it up and puts it in my

butt

Then she pulls it out and tells me that I’m hot

THERMOMETER!”

(Then it just starts over) and over and over...

...and then much delightful giggling!

I kid you not!

It’s a great day in the neighborhood!

There will always be a need for rectal temps. They are used in hypothermia cases and are also used to determine how long someone has been dead. I'm sure there are many more, just 2 that come to mind. I think for every day medical use the ear probe is plenty accurate enough and non invasive. I really like sliding a glass one in though.

There will always be a need for rectal temps. They are used in hypothermia cases and are also used to determine how long someone has been dead.

Don’t they use a liver probe on dead people? I think it is more accurate than rectal. So for all you folks interested in your most accurate temp ........

That's interesting. I also heard what was probably the same song being recited by a few young women at a wedding last November. They were walking around half intoxicated, yelling "thermometer," while they were outside doing the photo shoots.

Rectal temperatures will forever be the gold standard. We can't escape the fact the rectum is the only truely internal non-invasive site.

Orally, yes we can close the mouth and give the impression of internal but there is many factors which can easily influence an oral reading. It is not truely internal.

That being said, the world is about speed, everything is related to speed. Rectal is by far the slowest and most effort intense method. It simply can't compare to the speed and simplicity of infrared.

I think it would be awesome if rectal temperature temperature taking would come back in Vogue, imagine going to the doctor for something routine and having the nurse instruct you drop your pants and underwear and lean over the table to take your temperature rectally, that would be be both embarrassing and exciting.

Well, I think, it’s dying out and will remain only in the fetish field

The thing is, the modern Thermometers for the Ear and also for the forehead are so good, that you don’t need RTs in real life anymore

Well, I think, it’s dying out and will remain only in the fetish field

The thing is, the modern Thermometers for the Ear and also for the forehead are so good, that you don’t need RTs in real life anymore

You still need them if you are trying to get a core temperature. It is true they are used much less even in pediatrics but they are used.

So many of us were imprinted as children concerning everything from r/t's to enemas.....today's kids are not exposed to either near as much....their interest in these things will probably only come when they are introduced to them by a playmate at some later age than most of us were. they might only be oddities used in sexual play ....and not so much embedded fetishes from early ages....maybe a loss to them.....who knows

Rectal temps aren’t dying out completely. I went a local urgent care last week suffering from a UTI. I was put in an exam room that was previously occupied d by a small toddler right before me. I know because I saw the child and mother exit the room. Upon entering I noticed the surgical lube was still on the exam table paper along side a couple of spent tissues, instead of being in it’s proper place on the stainless medical tray as usual.

I usually hate it when the exam paper has been disturbed and not changed prior to me, but this time I found it quite comforting.

I’m sure the child’s rectal temp was taken quickly with a covered digital probe, but it was a rectal temp nonetheless.

I think it’s often up to the nurse’s discretion these days. I have a close young female friend who’s a nurse who has a one-year-old herself. I know she takes his temperature rectally because (I’ve seen her take his on my couch). Actual medical instruments may have changed, but what they are used for remains much the same. Mercury thermometers are a thing of the past, but rectal temperature taking happens more often than most of us think.

There is of course Kinsa. You can pickup these wireless rectal thermometers from ebay.

If you don't mind a little cable attachment, you can always pickup a suretemp, ivac or a filac (used) from ebay for cheap

I am waiting for a day where they could have a fully insert-able toy which can transmit realtime temp to my phone via bluetooth. Could sure do with the feeling of having it in my bum while I am at work

Medically, they will be around for certain situations. But for home use, they are probably declining significantly now for less invasive methods. Enemas and suppositories are declining too. You don't see a lot of these things in the laxatives areas of the store.

It'll continue to be presented as an option when included as instructions on a device for home use, but realistically I doubt most people even consider using it that way.

Imagine taking your rectal temperature with a blue tooth device, and someone hacks into it, and sends it out on Youtube....with your face included in the picture ! I think that the traditional vintage glass is a much better choice, for those who wish to continue that route. As far as rectal temps....I would doubt that you'll ever hear about them in ten years or less. I think they'll be lost in the pages of medical history books.

Medically, they will be around for certain situations. But for home use, they are probably declining significantly now for less invasive methods. Enemas and suppositories are declining too. You don't see a lot of these things in the laxatives areas of the store.

I agree that all the rectal things seem to be out of favor. I was in a CVS recently and as always walked down the laxative isle. I was happy to see that not only did they have fleet enemas, they also had the fleet bag enema. A disposable 1500mil bag.

I don't know about suppos but judging by the number of (non-explicit) enema videos uploaded to YouTube by new-age hippie types, I have to believe enema use is becoming more common in the U.S.