Rectal temp for all

Rectal thermometer have been around for 100s of years . It never hurt a child butt then and it will not hurt them now. I believe if you have a 7 y.o.. child or a 13 y.o . child. If you take your 7 y.o. rectal temp. then you should take your 13 y..o..temp. rectally to. so the 7 y. o. will not feel bad because the 13 y. o. get butt temp too

RT is just fading away unfortunately. Many hospitals switched to other methods from age 3-4 already. It remain common for infants only. Also depends on the particular families. For example l got RT et home till 16 and it was never problem for me. I just got used to it simply.

Electronic thermometers are politically correct.

RT is just fading away unfortunately. Many hospitals switched to other methods from age 3-4 already. It remain common for infants only. Also depends on the particular families. For example l got RT et home till 16 and it was never problem for me. I just got used to it simply.

I think you are right in most cases i have gotten a rectal temperature in the hospital a few times while being in there for infections but I had to ask for it and it was only to confirm a fever was present. One other time I got it in the emergency room because doctor requested it but it is far less common then say 20 years ago.

I don't believe in politically correct.

Taking a child’s rectal temperature teaches them patience, and how to submit to authority for their own benefit. It’s not just a medical diagnostic tool, it’s also a valuable behavioral training tool.

As a child, absolutely nothing got my attention faster than being stopped from doing whatever I was doing, then being taken to a place where my pants and underwear would be removed for a complete stranger, only to have them put something into my bottom, and then having to wait until they were done with me and my “potty parts”.

That happened often until around age six. Personally after age ten, I would not have allowed it from anyone. No matter how much I enjoyed a thermometer in my butt at the doctor’s office, I absolutely detested being treated or being talked to like a baby (which nurses are so good at).

Rectal temperatures are still a thing in clinical settings for infants and toddler, and very ill adults, but they’re performed with a sleeve covered probe that registers in seconds instead of minutes.

Glass thermometers are a thing of the past. Rectal temps are very much alive and well, and I can tell you from first hand experience!

Ok first medical thermometry has only been around since about 1880s, so no they haven't been around for hundreds of years.,In fact most if the early temperature studies done by Dr. Carl Wunderluch where done with axillary measurements, because the earliest thermometers where too delecate for any other methods. It wasn't till around 1900 that oral and rectal thermometers become in major use. And yes rectal was the go to for infants, children and very ill adults. That said I have this fetish, which is just what it is, my sexuality was focused very early on with rectal penetration. But I wouldn't want this for any child. Children should be allowed to develop their sexuality much later in life than mine.

Rectal is always best, hoping my future wife will understand this.

Taking a child’s rectal temperature teaches them patience, and how to submit to authority for their own benefit. It’s not just a medical diagnostic tool, it’s also a valuable behavioral training tool.

I cannot disagree more that using a rectal thermometer teaches a child anything nor is it a behavioral training tool. Are you advocating taking rectal temps on children as a disciplinary or “learning” event when there is no medical reason to assess their temperature? There is a difference between teaching a child to ‘submit" to authority vs to “respect” authority, and rectal temps have no place in that teaching. Forcing someone to be submissive isn’t a character building force factor!! It may just have the opposite effect of resentment, Maybe it reinforces a control issue for the person taking the temp, which is fine for adult play, but no place for it to extend to children.

When I was young I had no choice but a rectal thermometer my mom only had a rectal thermometer for the children in the household if there was an oral one it was on the adults and even if I got older my mom still continued to use rectal on me till I was like 15 years old

They say it's the most accurate way ! Straight in the butt !