Do you pull bangs back for forehead thermometer?

[Anonymous]

Also, please remove their hat and place the thermometer on their skin, and not the hat.

In all seriousness, ditch the forehead thermometer. If it varies so much by whether bangs up, down, bangs up for 1 min or 3 min, you do the math. It’s neither accurate nor precise.

[Anonymous]

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+10

WTH has happened to this site?

[Anonymous]

In all honesty, I’m a nurse and have a pretty accurate temperature assessment by feel to the nearest whole number. Most popular and “easy” thermometers are inaccurate: temporal, the ones that wave over forehead, tympanic. They are all flawed. Under the arm is probably the second most accurate and rectal the most accurate.

[Anonymous]

Why not just use a Ouija board or a tarot deck?

[Anonymous]

We don't even bother with thermometers any more. There's always so much variation with the same one a minute apart. I go by touch and also by how my kid is acting. There's no way they get to a dangerously high temperature without other serious physical symptoms.