Seeing an adult receive a rectal temperature?

I have never seen an adult get a rectal temp before but, I do understand because if an adult has a heat stroke and was brought into the ER, a rectal temp might be involved to get an accurate temperature reading on how hot the person was when the heat stroke happened and being too weak to fight the the nurse off of them.

The adult might be too sick to take a mouth temperature or they could have grown with having their temperature taken rectally all their lives or they must like the way it feels.

A retired nurse told me that she was done rectal temperatures on adults before but that is because they are unconscious in the dark, too sick, or a lot of health problems, or even from having a heat stroke.

No not to anyone else and only on me, yes my friends have seen my girlfriend and some of her nursing co-workers take my rectal temperature....embrassing but I love it!.

Yes, it happened twice to me, and both experiences are related with my grandfathers.

The first one happened when I was seven or eight years old. We had to bring my grandfather at the hospital ; I remember being in this hospital room with my mother, waiting for a nurse to give instructions. She finally arrived and told my grandfather he could rest in the bed and a doctor would come to visit him very soon. She also held a thermometer out to him saying he would also have to take his temperature. My grandfather didn't say anything and we just saw the thermometer disappearing under the bed sheet (it was in France in the middle of 90's so there was no doubt on where it had to go…).

The second experience was a lot more interesting. It happened to my other grandfather. I was 13 or 14 years old, I stayed with my grandparent's for a couple of days and at the very beginning of my stay, my grandpa caught a flu. He's a grumpy person - he was back then around 70 years old - and looked quite miserable in bed and wanted to stay in his room. I just asked him if he thought he had a fever but he replied negatively. My grandmother asked him another time if he was sure he didn't want to check his temperature, and she added that sometimes we do have fever even if we don't think so. He very reluctantly complied, and my grandmother took out a very old school rectal thermometer from a small drawer next to their bed. "Old school" means quite a large glass rod with a long silver tip, put in an dark orange plastic case, 60's style, made on purpose for thermometers judging from its shape.

She looked at it to make sure the mercury line was down, and gave it to him. I could see him grabbing it and moving around under the bed sheet in order to lower his PJ's trousers. The glass stick disappeared and he made faces that highlighted how uncomfortable it was for him. I don't know how it was in other families but we actually rarely used lubricant on rectal thermometers in my family. At some point, after a few seconds, he grumbled "God, I can't even make it make its way to my ass!" and then "ok, finally!".

I witnessed the scene from A to Z. I just went to the kitchen at some point to take a glass of water for him - as he asked me - and when I came back he was glancing at his watch, waiting for the appropriate moment to remove the intrusive device from his rear end. He pulled it out of his rectum, read it and said "37,5, no fever!". I thought how it might have been infuriating for him to force himself to take a rectal temperature and at the end just realize he had no fever. The day after, he said he took something to fight fever because he had an almost 39° temperature when he went to bed, but I didn't have the chance to witness the second temperature taking scene.

Yup, I walked into my parent's bedroom one day to find my father just sticking the glass thermometer into his own butt. At the time, it didn't mean much to me...

Rectals are usually needed for core temperatures after hypothermia

No I have not.

Me neither 😃

Yes i saw my aunt having her temperature taken by my mother, it was so hot I had too stay and watch for a couple of minutes, great souvenirs

Yes I did . The setting was in our home about mid-afternoon . My grandmother was visiting and she and my mom were in conversation . Just a bit later I walked past mom's bedroom where the door stood ajar as I passed on my way to the bathroom . Grandmother was sitting in a chair next to the bed with her had on my mom's bottom . Mom had removed her slacks , and now lay on the bed on her tummy with her panties just below her hips . Grandmother saw me and motioned me to go away . My view was not long but was long enough to know that an ‘ RT ’ was in progress . Grandmother or mom , if she even knew , never said anything to me about me ever so briefly ‘ viewing ’ the very private intimacy of the ‘ mom - adult daughter ’ rectal temperature taking procedure . At the time , I was a kid and the above would have been in the late 1950's .

I've inadvertently seen Mom for a few seconds laying on her bed with a thermometer protruding but made a quick pass respectful of her privacy. Nothing was ever said, and neither of us would have made a big deal of it, anyway.

When I was around 4, we had an au paire from Sweden, living with us for awhile, who was, maybe around 19 or 20. She came down with the flu, and took her rectal temp. in front of me, during that time. Definitely not even close to Tiger Wood's ex wife, who was also from Sweden. But at 4, the "hottie factor,' didn't even register.