I know that rectal thermometers are the best, but I honestly cannot do it (tried with DD, and couldn?t stick that thing up there). I had a very accurate thermometer with her, but it takes a long time to get a reading. Therefore, I would like to purchase a better one this time around. I tried looking through the reviews online, but none of the thermometers are getting good reviews. Which one are you using/registering for?
Re: Recommend your ear or arm thermometer
I personally do not like ear thermometers at all. We have one, my son was running a temp of 104-105 and it read him at 97??? WTF!! It was a Graco one that my husband paid $20 for. I have never liked it and will not use it again. I took his temp several times that day with it because I thought I'd done something wrong and nope, every time it would read him in the high 90s even though we knew he had a very temp.
My favorite is the Vicks thermometer, it can be used under arm, mouth or rectally. It is about $12 I think. It is very fast, you get a reading in 8 seconds, just read the directions because when you do it under the arm you lose about a degree so whatever temp you get under the arm you must add 1 degree to it for accuracy.
We love our ear thermometer and never had a problem with accuracy. In fact, it's the same one that our pedi uses- even on newborns. The Braun Thermoscan-
https://www.amazon.com/Braun-Thermoscan-Thermometer-ExacTemp-Technology/dp/B001FWXKMM:
We have this one and I really like it. Like the OP, I have a hard time taking a rectal temp and this one at least gives me a good idea of what my LO's temps are. My oldest DS has a curved ear canal, so I have to put the thermometer in at a weird angle, but so long as I do that, I get a pretty accurate read.
We have this one as well and I hate it. Never ever once have I been able to get it to read...it always gives me an error message about positioning it. The reading comes out as POS. Yeah...I think the thing is a POS.
But after reading the review above, I am wondering if we have a defective thermometer. 7 different family members have tried to use it and on our DD and each other and every single one failed.
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