Is the color of your rectal glass thermometer important?

No longer here says

Color is not important to me

Well if it's brown it's sayin clean me down

Those that I have are the genuine clinic / hospital issued mercury / white backed / bulbous tipped in Chrome over Brass cylinders with breast pocket clips – Nursing Staff only

I have a clear one my play partner gave me & I also have a yellow veterinary thermometer. Love them both 🍑🌡

The glass on thermometers I grew up with was clear, but strangely, the triangle on the end of the thermometer was blue instead of red, even though it clearly said rectal on the thermometer, and mom used it as intended.

All the thermometers I've ever had were clear except one I bought in the early 2000s, when glass thermometers were still available but disappearing. It was a B-D "baby thermometer" and was yellow. It looked just like the one here except it clearly said "Baby" instead of "Rectal." Was there any difference between the two, or just a marketing tactic to create differentiation, I wonder?

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For a hot second, I had a glass blower that was going to custom make thermometers for us that were a bit larger than average for better stimulation and so they would really pop in photo sets. Plus, they could come in all kids of colors like yellow, clear and combo of clear white and red. Would have been a very cool toy for the RT and medfet community.

I think if you go on eBay you might find a yellow fever glass thermometer or a few. I saw one once that had “ Brazil” etched on it.

I currently have a B-D “ red flash” glass mercury thermometer ( there are images of it well placed between my buttocks as it is buried half its length in my anal opening. You can see it in my albums) which is designed to make the mercury appear red, and as the images show the red is very visible. Beside the color, it has a somewhat larger pear shaped bulb. It does make for good images. But it makes for great rectal temperature taking, when sent up my rectum!

I don't care about the color of the thermometer I use on my ladyfriends or myself.

The shape and the size ( the bigger the better ) of the device would be more important to me.

Mine are all white. Had a yellow years ago. Either way, the image of a glass thermometer peeking out of a bare hiney is fabulous!!!

My mother used thermometers similar to the current "Geratherm" models: thin probe (to be inserted) then thicker main part. The graduations were I think printed on some form of paper integrated within the glass (I don't know how they do that, in retrospect). I think one of them at least had a slightly yellowish background.

The thing is, this is too far away, 40 years ago. I'm not even sure about the color of the liquid. I know mom had a mercury one but she stopped using it because of risks in case of breakage. She had one with red liquid inside (tinted alcohol?) and one with blue liquid I think. She changed to electronic in my late teens.

My thermometers are all white color is not important

All of ours are the yellow (easier to read) ones mostly BD in either the flat case or the plastic box. What a marketing gimmick that was! The BD Temp-A-Way this relatively huge plastic box with the sheathes that always tore when Mom or Dad used them but I remember being embarrassed when we'd go shopping at Pathmark because they'd be on the aisle with the "regular" pharmacy things and thermometers and they were blue for oral and red for rectal. Mom or Dad would always grab a few boxes of the red, rectal ones and I dreaded anyone being around. I remember when I was 12 I was shoulder to shoulder with this woman I guess about 40ish. Mom pulled a few boxes of the rectal ones off the "hanger" and the woman just kind of look at me and smiled. I was sooo embarrassed.

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Carly

Our vintage Taylor “instanta rectal” glass thermometer is clear, and the mercury is clear. You have to slowly twist it just right to read the temp, which after nearly 40 years of marriage is still a challenge for my husband, who has a masters degree in engineering.

At one time or another, it’s been up the behinds of all four of us in the family. Quite a legacy for this thermometer, which is still spot on accurate as the day my mother passed it down. She had a devilish sense of humor, still does at her age.

I have 2 older ones. A Taylor red top that was my grandmothers and the one my mom used for me growing up. Yes, they are still used. Still accurate.

The color of the shaft isn't so important to me but I like the proximal end to be red.

I have the B-D red flash glass mercury thermometer. It is definitely noted by its red effect on the column of mercury. It also has a somewhat larger pear shaped bulb. And it is interesting to see in images as shots of it in a static state or actually in use.

I have a large collection and they are all white

No. I'm much more interested in the size! 😃

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I'm with @laurabbush

Something BIG for me, please

I’ve posted both text and images about my red flash thermometer. Unique, but when it comes to having my rectal temperature taken, my preference, thermometer wise, is that a glass mercury be used. Sadly they are probably rare if even used in medical/health venues anymore.

That said I have a few and when my nurse sees me, she uses a glass mercury thermometer ( rectal).

I know thermometers like these have certain color schemes, but unless for image reasons, glass mercury regardless of color is my choice.

I have stated here, I have a number of thermometers with white back, yellow back, red ends no red ends, ETC. But I too like glass USA style best,

I even have a yellow back, B-D with a blue end, but it's a universal bulb so I use it rectally. I do think the yellow back is a bit easier to find the mercury column than say a white back, though the B-D red flash with its red mercury column is very nice too.