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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you have great ear thermometers, but i never felt like I could get a good reading with those.  Recently I got a forehead thermoneter (Exergen’s Smartglow Temporal Scanner) and my impression is that the readings are more reliable, although I haven’t validated that, it’s just my general impression. [/quote]

Op here. I actually have that thermometer! I got it before the ear thermometers, expecting my kids to hate a sensor in their ears. I'm sure it must be user error, but we've never been able to get it to work. Even on myself, I can't get a reliable reading.  And I basically can't get a reading at all on my kids because they won't stay still long enough for me to do it. It was a huge surprise when they cooperated with the ear ones. I think it helps that the probe effectively helps to hold their heads in place.

I'm pretty confident in the ear thermometers' accuracy. We have a handful of Braun Thermoscan 5 and 7 thermometers. They've always given consistent results with each other, and they've tracked pretty closely with rectal temps when we've double checked that way (not something I like making a habit of, obviously).[/quote]

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