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  • Feb 26, 2012, 02:58 PM
    JJ9040
    Why do doctors take a rectal temperature?
    I was at the doctor an they made me have a rectal temperature and is this weird or no? I'm a 15 year old girl and it was a check up
  • Feb 26, 2012, 03:11 PM
    Fr_Chuck
    Was there a specific illness you were being seen for.
    But no that sounds strange, my son is 11 and they have not done that since he was about 4.
  • Feb 26, 2012, 03:16 PM
    Wondergirl
    Now there are thermometers that can be put inside your ear or even laid across your forehead. If the patient can't hold the thermometer in his mouth and under his tongue, some other way has to be done.
  • Feb 26, 2012, 03:20 PM
    JJ9040
    It was a physical
  • Feb 26, 2012, 03:28 PM
    Wondergirl
    The nurse sticks a thermometer into my ear. That's in the office as well as in the hospital. In a few seconds, it goes beep.
  • Feb 26, 2012, 03:54 PM
    J_9
    Yes, that's strange. Although the rectal temperature is the core temperature, and the most accurate, it's rarely used on anyone older than an infant.

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