Your highest rectal temperature ever measured? And time kept inserted?

My wife and I always take temperatures rectally. About 18 years ago, I had a rectal temp of 103.6 and a pounding headache. Went to the dr and passed out in the waiting room. Turns out I had meningitis.

I was 10 years old and my temp was 105.2, had pneumonia.

100.6 F after 5 minutes.

My highest temperature ever taken was 40.5° C, by a nice old lubricated thermometer.

Around 103 I think

40 degrees

102 I was really sick

About 103

My mom took me to the ER when I was little because I had temperature of 102. They took it again at the hospital and it was over 103.

I was five and had tonsilitus and it was 103. The coolness of the thrermometer felt good at first.

My was 40.9° Celsius as I was around 10 years old. My parents told me that I came into the kitchen, pointed to the light above the kitchen table and shouted "a bear, a bear!" It was defenitly time for the doctor. I remember only stones rumbling in my head, nothing else!

Mine was 103.2 when I got heat exhaustion as a boy in scout camp. It was a very hot day after a hour hike and they made me go to the doctor because I was very sun burned, dizzy, nauseous, dehydrated and hot all over. The male doctor took my temperature every thirty minutes followed by a cool enema for dehydration for almost 5 hrs. I loved the cool sensation of the thermometer in my bottom and it felt good that he held it in pretty deep because he said he had to measure my rectal temperature as deeply as possible. He continued t.o check up on me daily for three days of rectal temps and enemas for dehydration a

Over 105, I was told when I went to the ER with bacterial pneumonia last year. I was a bit delirious and teeth chattering at the time so have no idea how long it was in there - probably not long as everything is electronic now. As soon as they got some fluids in me, and I was reasonably coherent, they always used oral probes.

Last year I took my temp and it was 103.5. I took it rectally to make sure it was accurate. I used one of those digital thermometers.

My highest temp was 104 when I had strep throat when I was a kid. I felt horrible. The highest temp I've seen is 110 degrees when I saw heat stroke in the ER. She had shot up heroin in a park and was found unconscious when the ambient temp was 110 degrees. Normally such a high fever causes death because proteins are denatured. In this case I saved her by placing a catheter into the peritoneal cavity and instilling liters of room temperature saline solution. After about two hours she woke up. I was totally amazed.

Mine was 42.5 degrees a few weeks ago . I had a kidney infection and pneumonia. I also had a convulsion because it was so high . Not an experience I'd like to go through again .

The highest my temperature ever went was 104 when I was a child. I don't remember my age but I know it was probably pre-teen age.

Bill

104+ when I was 19 and my appendix burst causing quite a case of septicemia that nearly killed me!

103 when I was younger

Was that still a rectal one back then, Ophelia?

Well Niknoks I not surprised by that reaction to the that high temperature. The highest I have ever seen is 43C in the ITU, we have cooling blankets available as well as cold IV fluids and was able to drop it before they started to convulse, but it was not a nice experience for the patient or the medical staff.

The highest temp I've seen is 111 degrees Fahrenheit. The patient had ODd on heroin in the hot sun. She was unconscious and about to die. I instilled 3 liters of room temperature saline into her peritoneal cavity and she woke up. It was a huge surprise to me!

^^^^^ WHAT???

No ice water enema?!?!?!?!?!?! 😁 😁 😁

Susie you know that enemas without any sphincter tone don't stay in!

Balloon nozzles and duct tape to hold the buttocks together and anus closed! 😁

I have also seen very elevated temperatures ( up to 113F or 45C) caused by my malignant hyperpyrexia, which is a rare life-threatening condition that is usually triggered by exposure to certain drugs used for general anesthesia, specifically the volatile anesthetic agents and the neuromuscular blocking agent succinylcholine ( Suxamethonium chloride). Its is usually diagnosed by a sharp increase in CO2 levels on induction caused by an uncontrolled increase in skeletal muscle oxidative metabolism.

Commonly treated with dantrolene sodium. Although I have heard of SCUF (Slow Continuous Ultrafiltration) being performed to drop the temperature very effectively in combination with the Dantrolene.

I have also seen malignant neuroleptic syndrome too. I failed to recognize it and the patient died sad to say. No time to get a balloon nozzle from central supply. I just put a #10 iv in and poured in the fluids. She looked like bojangles pants afterwards but she lived.

I got real hot about a month or so ago. Slid the thermometer into my anus and kept it in a full five minutes. When I pulled it out it registered 102.5. I started drinking lots of ice water and within a half hour or so it came down to 99.0

105.3F Thats the highest I have gonne And this was a week back. "fever " is my Friend 😄

I have seen people who just hit 99Fand they start to get headaches and other stuff

But me 😁 m such a bad Gurl! I Don;t Feel I have fever till it hit 102.5F

~Cookie

104 when I was 17 on Thanksgiving day 1981. Appendicitis surgery fixed me up.