Rectal temperature for no reason, just out of the blue.

Have you ever had a parent or family member take your temperature for no reason. I don't mean for example you looked sick or you were acting off. I mean out of the blue with no reason for it. This happened once to me and my brother, mom and dad where getting ready for us to leave on vacation and out of the blue mom says she is going to take my brother's and my temperature. I recall we were about age 6 and 8 at the time.

Mmh. Maybe your mom got a last-minute worry that you might be sick when leaving home. This is not very rational, but parents sometimes are irrationally protective of their children.

Your Mom probably wanted to be sure you were both ok and would not be sick on the trip. Did she take both your temps rectally? In my opinion, rectal temperature is the right way no matter your age.

Yes we both had it done rectally mom only had rectal thermometers when we were kids. I never minded rectal termps my brother hated them. He used put up all kinds of a fuss. he even hated it more at age 13 when doctor's nurse asked me how I wanted it taken and i said rectal, so mom said to the nurse to take my brothers that way too.

My rectal temps. pretty much stopped around age 5 or 6. However, before that time, my mom took my rectal temp. excessively, and often for no reason. I wasn't a sickly child by any stretch of the imagination. I dreaded the rectal thermometer, and am surprised that I have a fetish 55 years later !

Many times it was taken without any reasones as far as I can see. If I was feelin cold or hot, if I wasn´t hungry or if I was just tired. Everything could be used as an excuse for the dreaded instrument to be inserted inside me to carefully registrate my temperature.

Nope, but I take my own for no reason sometimes. Rather have my wife do it, however.

I remember being over her knee with my pants down for the thermometer but I don't remember whether I was sick! I assume she had a reason...

Yes i often ill but mother took regardless night morning

I posted a reply to the "Fussing " thread about being held over the ottoman and having my pants pulled down for not cooperating with my mother when she wanted to take my temperature as a young boy. I was held down in place by my father while my mother spread my buttocks and slid the thermometer up my rectum. I howled and squirmed to no avail as the three minutes went by very slowly.

I learned that if my mother had, or wanted to carry out a procedure on us - it was going to be done with or without our cooperation. I never gave her any trouble after that. It was the same in the hospital in the pediatrics wing. The nurse would come in and shake down and lubricate a thermometer and tell you to "turn over" and I always did.

I had a room mate who wanted to "test" the nurses resolve. She left the room and returned with another nurse. Between the two of them they soon had him face down, bottom bared and thermometer inserted well up his rectum . He yelled and squirmed all the while. I noted a look of satisfaction on the nurse's face as she held the rectal thermometer up his rear and timed off three minutes.

I remember distinctly once when I was 13 Mom said she was going to take my temperature 'in my bottom' because I was 'acting like I needed it'. At that age, I had been getting it taken orally, but this time she led me to her bedroom, pulled my PJ bottoms down and put me over her lap. Now this was the normal way she would give me my enemas (which I still got with a bulb even at that age) but the rectal thermometer was odd. It came out normal and nothing else was said - but it certainly was odd.

-BB

A health monitoring visit may include taking a youngster's temperature, regardless of the type of thermometer used, as a means of documenting that aspect of the youngster's health. If a temperature were taken say 50 years ago, a glass thermometer would have been used, and it would have been possible that a temperature would have been taken rectally with a glass rectal thermometer. At a contemporary medical youth clinic, the probability of this practice being performed would be quite low.

Nope never had that happed rectal temperature were only taken when I was sick

I vaguely remember a time when I was maybe 3-4 years old when during the middle of the afternoon my mom told me that she was going to take my temperature after everybody left for the day. I remember arguing back and forth with her a few times that she wasn't going to do it, but she always insisted that she was. Sure enough, later on that evening when we were in the living room watching TV, mom pulled me over to her, pantsed me, and took my rectal temperature. That's about the only one from childhood that I really remember, maybe because for some reason, i was on my hands and knees, and she had a blanket over my back while the thermometer was in. I distinctly remember the feeling of her holding on to the thermometer.... I could feel it moving slightly every time I took a breath. No doubt, that's one of the determining factors of why I still use them today.

It wasn't uncommon for me to have my rectal temperature taken at the children's clinic, even for a routine checkup. Wouldn't be a thing in the world wrong with me. But the nurse would pull my pants and underwear down below my knees, raise my legs, and up my pooper that thermometer went. I hated it when she did that, it was really uncomfortable and unnecessary. I at least partly understood why she stuck it up my butt when I was sick, but not when I was clearly fine.

My aunt would take my temperature for no reason whenever she babysat me. She always said that it was good practice to randomly check a child's temperature. She used to be a nurse, but quit after she had the twins. I sometimes think she missed being a nurse because of how she treated her children and nieces and nephews when they were sick.

Nope that never happened to me

No, that has never happened to me at all. Sounds odd to me.

There may be no apparent reason for a youngster to question the need to have a temperature taken, but any time that the youngster's caretaker suspects the start of a fever, it is time to get the thermometer out. It may be that that the caretaker may be overreacting, but it is only in the best interest of the youngster. Should the youngster be deemed to have a temperature taken rectally with a glass rectal thermometer frequently, at least the youngster avoids the fatigue of keeping the mouth partially open and the silvery tip poking into the tender under area of his tongue.

Howard Stern has published that his mom took his temperature rectally every day until he was 14, for no reason.

No never happened to me. Not something i would hope was or is common these days.

Not that way, but my parents found several reasons, like looking ill, shivering, being too long in water (Lake, swimming pool, swimming park), sweating especially in summer, no or less appetite, having red eyes and so on. In most cases, I said "okay", and a few moments later a thermometer was pushed up my bum. It was quite normal for me.

I must of been 4 r 5 years old, my brother who i is 4 year older than me, we we're running around and playing in the den. When my dad for no reason at all picked me up, pulled my pants and underwear down and put me over my moms lap. I didn't even know she was holding a rectal thermometer, until she spread my cheeks and inserted in my butt. Again I just held my head up and looked at my brother smirking at me.

No a parent friend or relative but our family doctor whenever he made home viists (50s and 60s) he would take my rectal temperature. Strangely he would often place a thermeter between my upper thigh and testicle laying on my bed face up after taking down my pj bottoms.

Anyone else had their temp taken that way?

No a parent friend or relative but our family doctor whenever he made home viists (50s and 60s) he would take my rectal temperature. Strangely he would often place a thermeter between my upper thigh and testicle laying on my bed face up after taking down my pj bottoms.

Anyone else had their temp taken that way?

I've seen that done on babies. It's basically like under the arm, but the thermometer bulb gets more skin contact in the groin.

This happened when I was in college. I was staying with some friends for a few weeks because I was moving. The lady was a nurse and her husband a firemen. They had boy who was about 10 and came in from playing outside and I was in their living room and she told the boy to go to his room because she needed to take his temperature. He complained a bit and she told she would give him something to complain about but she was going to take his temperature. He went past me into his room. She came behind him with a rectal thermometer in a plastic case and the vaseline and said, someday you will have kids of your to deal with. When she entered the bedroom, he said to her, do we have to put in my bum and she said, I gonna spank you if don’t cooperate and then things went silent for several minutes. When she finished she said to the boy, you rest a bit now and came back through the living room with the thermometer and Vaseline. Later when he came out his room all was normal. Never understand to this day way it happened. This was in probably 1978.

Only one time that I remember. It was done by a babysitter. It was weird.