Recommend your ear or arm thermometer

RHitch · October 2010

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?

JillBean78 · October 2010

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.

RHitch · October 2010

Thanks! I never tried an ear thermometer, so thanks for telling me your experience. Taking DD's temp underarm worked well for us. As you mentioned, it was about a degree off, but I knew that so it was easy to read her temp. DD is exactly like my husband in that when she gets a temp her entire body is burning hot (I'm the opposite, I get chills). If the temp on the thermomenter would have been 90 anything, I would have known it was trash immediately!

slwprincess · October 2010

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:

amethyst1220 · October 2010

my sis recommended a temperal thermometer to me.

somegirl425 · October 2010

My brother got the Honeywell Vicks Forehead thermometer and it seemed to work really good. He wasn't happy with his ear thermometer. It was so easy to use and get a good reading.

Puddlejumpers · October 2010

slwprincess:
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.

TulipsAndChampagne · October 2010

slwprincess:
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-

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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