Seeing an adult receive a rectal temperature?

Has anyone seen an adult(parent, grandparents, aunt, uncle, cousin, etc...) receive a rectal temperature? I, unfortunately, have no experience with this.

No.. I can't say that I have.

I have on adult patients in the hospital.

I did growing up in the 50's, mother was the caretaker for everyone. I saw my aunts, and other family members receiving enemas, and rectal temps.

I have never seen a adult receiving a rectal temperature

I'd love to see it!

In a real setting, no, in a play setting, lots of times. Actually if you count SO's, yes, on occasion we can not find the oral digital thermometer or the battery is dead or the readout is messed up and we have fallen back on our BORT's (Big OL Rectal Thermometers) for real use.

The only time I recall seeing an older person get a rectal temp was during my childhood. I was either 8 or 9 and had gone with my mom and younger sister to my annual check-up. As we walked down the corridor to my exam room, one of the other room doors opened briefly as a nurse came out, and in what was probably a three second flash, I saw a girl, probably a young teen, lying down on the table with panties lowered and a thermometer in her bottom. I was much too young to appreciate the view then, but the memory always stayed with me.

Can't say that I have

John

Yes, profesional (when i was still in nurse school) and with my (ex) girlfriends.

Once when I was a child, I was in the hospital, I remember walking down the corridor, past a room, and the door was open. There was girl who looked to be in her early or mid teens (she was kinda large). She was laying on her side facing the door, and you could see her pants were partly down in back. There was an older nurse in there who's main job, it seemed, was taking temperatures. The nurse and the girl's mom were standing behind her, chatting (she and my mom would also chat while my temperature was being taken as well). While I couldn't see much, it was pretty obvious what was going on. The girl was in street clothes, so I'm assuming she was just getting admitted at the time.

When I was a kid in the early 80's rectal thermometers were still quite common in Sweden and I was early told it was the most accurate way to take the temperature rectally. We had rectal thermometers only, and all family members had their own. So for us, it was a quite natural thing... I have seen my dad taking his rectal temperature once. He was ill and he was lying in his bed on his stomach with the thermometer in under the sheets. I didn't know and opened the door to his bedroom and jumped in his bed, trying to play with him... Then he had to told me he was about checking his temperature and I had to take it easy...

When I was around 4 years old, we had a foreign exchange student from Sweden living with us for awhile. One day she took the rectal thermometer from the bathroom, dipped it in Vaseline, and took her temperature. Because she was 19, and I was 4, she wasn't all that much younger than my mom. I thought it was kind of strange that she took her temp. that way, until I became aware that it was standard in Europe.

As a hospital orderly in the 1960's, I took many, many rectal temperatures and saw many taken rectally as well. Probably 30% of temperatures were taken rectally then, including those receiving oxygen, mouth breathers, etc.

As a physician I see many patients getting rectal temps in the ED. I'm not the one taking them of course. It's always the nurses who take them. It's inevitably in small children or those adults with altered mental status. It's absolutely no big deal. As a student I was admitted to the hospital with a fever of unknown origin. I had rectal temps every six hours. It was embarrassing but also titillating.

Rectal temps given or received by anyone do not excite me.

If something is going up someone's butt, I want it to be BIG.

In my clinical environment we routinely used continuous rectal temperature monitoring for all our patients, via a rectal temperature probe. Its as close to core temperature as we can get without being very invasive. Core temp along other factors like ESR, WBC and C reactive protein are used to determine if an infection is developing , which is not good for our patients.

Some of our patients do not like the feel of the probe and do not tolerate it well. While others have no problems with it .

I have and also been viewed so its with mixed blessings to admit this. Watching it occur stirs feelings of vulnerability. Seeing the person blush or look so tentative is intense and I easily identified with this since I feel the same way when submitting to one. The probe itself is not the issue. For me, its the psychological aspect of having one taken and lying there while it registers. It's really hard for me to want to talk then and have always thought that it was a great way to get at the truth. I think that this is a left over piece of childhood when pretending to be sick.

Great question........thanks for this opportunity.

JJM: Didn't she do it in private? In my family or in hospital, in France, 35 years ago, true, rectal temperature were standard, but the practice was to do it under bedsheets for patients old enough to insert the thermometer by themselves. There is no way an adult would take his or her temperature in front of a stranger, or that a nurse or relative would do it for the adult unless special circumstances applied (e.g. incapacitated adult).

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I worked as a hospital orderly during college in the 1960's and took many adult rectal temperatures each day. Anyone receiving oxygen, with a history of seizures, or mouth breathers automatically had rectal temperatures.

I remember when i was 8 seeing my moms friends daughter who was 13 lying facedown on her bed with a thermometer between her cheeks. I remember her mom telling mine that she had the flu. I was so embarrassed for her that i pretended not to see it and she didnt see me. I saw her a few days later but never told her what i saw, especially when i have been on the receiving end and had never had an oral temperature before anyway.

I have seen my wife having her rectal temperature taken on many occasions. I was (am) the one taking it. She has seen me having my rectal temperature taken also, for the same reason.

Growing up in the fifties I saw a lot of rectal temps taken. My two older brothers, Aunts and Uncles and Cousins and I was seen with the thermometer sticking out of my hiney also. As I got older I gave a lot of rectal temps to my friends, girls and boys. When I did role playing with a guy from here, we did rectal temperatures not before each of us had bright red bottoms. When I got married I got and gave rectal temps to my wife. It has always got me excited.

When I was in my teens I once saw my mom taking my then sick dad's rectal temp. Rectal temp were common in my house growing up, but were usually done behind closed door. There bedroom door was, I think, accidentally left ajar.

My mom was a pediatric nurse, so rectal temps were standard in our house. I was about 22 and still living at home when mom had a bad cold or the flu. I felt her forehead and it was warm, so i asked if she had taken her temperature. She said no but told me to get the thermometer and vaseline from the medicine chest in the first floor bathroom. I was surprised, especially when I came back to her bedroom with the items and saw her in bed, on her tummy, with her pajama bottoms down. Mom took me through each step: shaking the thermometer down to 96F, lubricating it, and how to insert it. She even had me hold it in place for 5 minutes, just like when she took my temps!

When I was in college, my girlfriend, and I took each others rectal temperatures when we both came down with a cold at the same time. So I have seen and was seen having a rectal temperature taken.

Not live and in person

I dated a few nurses over the years, and if the rectal method was OK for them to use on me if and when I was sick, it was good enough for them; and yes they were adult females over 21 years of age, and I took their temperatures rectally when they were not feeling well.

When I was in college I was at a party where there was a lot of drinking. At the end of the night I felt sick. I don't know if the drinking had anything to do with it or not, but I was in bad shape. I was warm and had chills at the same time. Three of my friends took me to the hospital emergency room. After a long wait they came with me into the examining room. After the nurse had me undress down to my underwear, and after taking my blood pressure and pulse, she told me to lie down on the table on my belly. I knew I would be getting my temperature taken but I was too sick to do any protesting. So my friends got to see me with the thermometer in my rectum.