Pediatrician rectal temperature

@dahardy9 oh wow if that happened to u at that time I’m sure it happened to me too in the early 90’s at hospitals ughhhh thankfully I don’t remember much....the only one I remember was the one I posted ☝️

To the best of my recollection, I never had my temperature taken in any way at the pediatrician. In fact, I've only ever had my temp taken at a doctor's office since they started using medical assistants and electronic instruments to take vital signs, and then it has always been orally.

I was born in 1958, in South Dakota. My pediatrician took rectal temps to age 13, after age 13 the nurse asked if you wanted oral. I never minded rectal so just let her do it rectally till I went off to join the Navy at age 18. In fact other than one time in grad school when a school nurse tried to get an oral temp on me and couldn't and had to do a rectal. The first oral temp I recall in a medical setting was at the Navy induction center.

On a side note my bother 2 years younger than me, hated rectal temps and could not wait to change to oral. He was really mad at my mom because she would not buy an oral thermometer for him till he turned 14. And even madder that I just let mom do rectal on me as he thought it's why mom didn't let him convert to oral. I also recall at the doctor's when i was 15, mom told my brother she didn't know why he was making such a fuss over a simple rectal temp, when I didn't mind at all. The whole time the thermometer was in his butt, he had a very angry look on his face. Mom did let the doctor's nurse do oral on him when he was 14 the same time she finally bought him an oral thermometer.

Yes I got mine taken till about age 8 or 9 and a few times till age 11 or so. It was always done by the nurse pants off and undies down to the ankles. The thermometers were kept in little stands on the table by the sink and the tube of jelly was usually lying out next to it.

In Norway RT is still practiced and there is no age limit. It is just one of several options. In modern time one uses digital thermometers, of which many models are more suited for rt temperature than the old ones.

There is no tradition for taking temperature at wellchild visits in Norway.

But in the later years Norwegian doctors has begun the practice of taking rectal temperature when children are examined for feverish diseases. The doctors themselves do it,

I think this practice is not so much for taking temperature, but more for checking symptoms in the rectal area, and logically that can be wise in the first place.

But I also think they do it to hunt for symptoms of sexual abuse. On such symptom they use is a reflectory relaxation of the rectal opening when something is inserted in a gentle way, and they use the thermometer in a way fitting this purpose.

The elite governing the Norwegian society has managed to set the whole country in a permanent state of fobia and hysteria regarding sexual abuse of children, and there are great economical rewards for doctors and service providers that detect something that give reason to snap a child away from their parents.

I think this is the hidden reason why Norwegian doctors are steadily more eager to look at the anus of children.

I do not remember having my temperature taken rectally at the pediatrician, but I am sure it happened. I guess by time i can remember I had been switched over to oral. I did see it done to my children at the doctor when they were babies, and even did it at home myself a few times. That is what led me to do it to myself, as an adult. I had taken the temperature of my less than one year old baby because she was fussy. It was normal, but something clicked in my mind and I thought "why not? As soon as I laid her down for her nap, the thermometer was in my butt.

I got mine taken rectally at the paediatrician by the nurse over my mom’s lap till around 9 that I could finally choose to have it orally or rectally. It happened in the waiting room, it could be embarrassing with some kids there playing or having temperature taken orally. I remembered that there were two jars of thermometers on the counter of the nurse station at the office, one of which are with rectal thermometers. When I was a kid, I thought there were no other choices to get temperature taken... until I got sick when I visited the US at 9, I got it in ear and was prescribed sweet meds instead of icky ones. It was quite a different experience visiting doctors here and there and in different countries.

I can only remember from two occasions (ages 12 and 13/14) that my rectal temperature was taken during a physical. I can remember that I had to lie down on my belly on the exam table and then the doctor would lower my undies a bit and push the thermometer in. Then he/she would hold it for a short while and then walk away. However in both cases I would feel it slip out almost immediatly and then when the doctor returned he/she would push it in again and would hold it until finished with a hand resting on my bare butt.

Although I do not (really) have a RT fetish, I can remember the special feeling of having the cold thermometer inserted.

My temperature was taken rectally at the pediatrician's when I was very young (before I was 6 years old). Then, after the age of 7, I no longer went to the pediatrician but to a family doctor and most of time my mother took my temperature before going to the doctor, and the doctor usually didn't need to do it. One exception was during a doctor's visit when I was nine years old, when the doctor took my temperature in my buttocks with my mother watching. I was lying on my stomach on the examination table, with only my underwear on. The doctor took off my underpants, pulled my buttocks apart, and pushed the thermometer in. I was very embarrassed and avoided looking at my mother. He left the thermometer in for 5 minutes.

@Jerome202 omgggg so the doc took off your undies and you were naked on the exam table on your tummy??? What did you feel when doc spread your butt cheeks and inserted the anal thermometer 🌡??? Do you know what was the reason for doc taking off your underwear 🩲??? Did it feel weird being naked in front of mom/doc ???

@medexam oh wow so you were naked as well on the exam table or you just had your underwear lowered?? What did it feel like when the doc inserted butt thermometer in your rectum?? What did you do?? Face the wall?? Hide your face with your hands??

I don’t have any memories of myself, but I remember my mother taking my baby sister’s rectal temp. I asked why my sister was crying and my mother replied, “Well how would you like a thermometer in your bottom?” I was afraid she would pull me over her lap to see for myself so I ran away to play quietly elsewhere!

@Elle omgggg I would run away too and I’ll hide!!! Lol

That happened every single time until I turned 11 and asked my mother to let me visit an 'adult doctor'

I too had gone in the room alone while my mom waited for me in the waiting room at my age of 10. The nurse took my rectal temperature and i enjoyed it.

Yes until I was 8 years old and went to a new doctor in 1967.

I had my rectal temperature taken at the pediatrician office several times in the early 90s. One particular time I remember I was in the diaper position. In fact all of them were in that position.

Not really at the Pediatricians but in a Hospital, when I had my tonsils removed at the age of.... somewhen in Kindergarten!

I needed to stay in Hospital for... well I would say at least a week, for it felt AGES long, but you know how it is with a kids memory 😄

I remember lying in bed before the surgery and being all excited, when a nurse entered and saying something like "taking temperature" and she had this big box with her with a blue and a red knob with cables protruding from one side. My Mom stayed with me the whole time and they talked something and then the nurse said "... actually in here we always measure in the butt" and my mom looked at me as if she wanted to apologize and said "oh. We've gotten used to using the ear." But then there was no helping it.

The nurse left that thermometer with us and my mom told me to lie on my side. She always had this chamomile hand cream with her wich she used as lube then. I think this is where my connection with "taking temperature" and that smell comes from. So she pulled down my pants and i smelled that smell and I was.... sort of excited, because I remember having interest in my butt ever since and I think she then pulled by cheeks apart and .... aaah.... that feeling. That very feeling. When I watched my mom doing whatever with that thermometer and sliding the red knob out, wich then presented itself to be the end of a long white ..."pen",I thought "that looks long. And pointy! And its going up my butt," and thats pretty much exactly how it felt. Pointy! Do you know how it feels like when u take something very thin and long and slowly slowy slide it into your ass? I think its mostly about the tip, it needs to have quiet an ancle. I remember it being kind of a stinging feeling... like... high and .... yes... stinging. And that I thought "hey! Do I remember that feeling? I think I do but i don´t know where from"

I can't quiet remember if that was the only time they came and checked my temperature, but from my nowadays perspective I think it wasn't. That box was most likely made to make a fever-curve over some days, why else make it so clumsy?

One other thing very remarkable for that particular hospital-visit, that shaped my fantasies and medfet, was the constant presence of suppositorys. I don't know how often they came. Once a day? Twice a day? Always bringing in suppositorys. Always lying on my side. Always Always Always getting things shoved in my bum. I can't deny i sort of liked it. I still to, mind me...

My mom brought a lot of books so she could read to me in hospital. A lot of them were from a series "the little raven". Don't know if that ever got translated into english, don't think it did. Anywhow, there was also a book called "the little raven gets sick" where... well guess what happens. The raven gets sick and then mama badger takes care of him and blaa blaa. well in one point he is well again and all his friends come to visit and he tells big stories about how the doctor cut of his wings and sewed them back on and he has super cold handy and.... here it omes.... "taking you temperature is very dangerous!" and thats when my mom would aways look at me and say "isn't that so?"

I spent much of my childhood pantless with bottom up at the doctor’s office. I was all too familiar with the rectal thermometer. It’s the very reason I’m here now.

“Let’s get a temp on you sweetie,” still rings like it was yesterday.

At my pediatrician, temperatures were taken at checkups and at sick visits. Until the child turned nine, temperatures were taken rectally. From age 5 to age 9, I went to checkups with my sister who is 2 years younger. We would strip to our undies and I would usually get my temperature taken first. My sister would get height, weight, bp, pulse etc measured while the thermometer registered in my bottom. Then we switched places and she got her temperature taken. At sick visits I kept my clothes on and just pulled my pants and undies down for the temperature taking. After turning 9, temperatures were taken orally.

I was a 12 yo boy who couldn't speak well a lil bit slower in school .and the otherkids picked on me t .I want to play on a football team my only way to hurt them with out getting into trouble .I went to the Dr. office 4 a physical when I was my turn My Dr. ash me to lay down on my tummy. I say, am I getting a shot in my butt again? He say no that your chart say rectal temp on him .I say please don't let any one see me. The Dr. just laugh at me and stark shaken the thomonture .It was not glass one . I send you the pic of the one the Dr . used. my heart started to bet faster When he open my butt it got cold air on my hole Then with out saying any then he slide it in my butt. I say wooo that's cold . As he hold the thermometer in my butt the other boys walk buy and saw me lying there with that fat thermometer stinking out my butt. They started to giggle and make fun at me . Please let me now what you think . This happen 1992

Till age 10 temp was taken rectally at the pediatrician office or hospitals.

I received rectal temperatures for many years after I switched at home to oral. I was 11 or 12 years old and still turning over and laying on my “tummy” or stomach. It was very embarrassing and I was always erect and hoping it would be soft by the time I had to roll back over.

I take rt myself.doctors dont take rectal temp in russia

From as long as I can remember until about 11 the temp at the pediatrician was rectal. The nurse was quite cute and would hold the glass thermometer in my bottom resting her hand on my cheek. My mom would ususally be in the room and they would chat it up. I was very embarrassed to be lying on the table, pants down and bottom up.

Jim

Had a general practice doctor. Ready for this? He never took a temperature at all for anyone. In retrospect, I do not understand that.

I never had my temperature taken at the pediatrician during my normal checkups. I think it’s because if you aren’t feeling sick they probably didn’t feel they needed to take a temperature.

I don’t ever remember going to the pediatrician because I was sick but I would imagine they take a temperature for that purpose. I don’t know if it’s a rectal temp though since I probably would have remembered getting one of those.

@Pitbull

Actually, the doctor didn’t take off my underwear completely, but he pulled it down to my ankles, which is the same thing.

I felt worried (I was always worried during medical procedures), helpless and embarrassed. I was used to rectal temperature taking at home, but it wasn’t the same, because this time it it was happening at the doctor’s, and my mom was staring at me. Having my temperature taken in my butt at the doctor’s was unusual for me at that age.

My pediatrician took mine at age 18 said it was more accurate. Was very embarrassing. Now I love that fantasy.

Had rectal temperature taken at pediatrician from birth to about 3. On occasion when sick or in the hospital then it was taken rectal at times