Asthma and allergies

With asthma and allergies in your coughing sneezing and feeling like vomiting from the discharge coming up rectal temperatures are much better cuz you don't have to worry about coughing spitting and sneezing I can do all that while the thermometer is in my rectum measuring the temperature

Why do you need to know your temp during an asthma/allergy attack?

If I'm not feeling well and could be warm during one of my attacks because I could have another thing going on cuz it attacks me at different times when I'm sick or not sick I can't hold thermometer my mouth if I'm coughing

The heading drew my attention. As a young boy I had both asthma and allergies. ‘Twas probably one of the earliest reasons why Mum took me to a doctor. I was so young, I remember, that the doctor was a different one to the ones I had subsequently in my early years. I think his name was Dr Shannon. He was probably the doc who took my tonsils out at age 4 (the earliest age they usually did that, as I fancy doctors back then just itched to do - the op was a nice little earner for them). What I don’t remember was a thermometer put where the initiator of this thread mentions. 😕

- Ken

I might understand having a rectal temp. if the patient had epileptic seizures, that would happen randomly, but for asthma or allergies ?

I have asthma and prefer to take my temp rectally because of it as well due to bad coughing

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