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Are these any good?
We have an ear thermometer which is a pain and needs new caps each time. At the doctors they use a forehead no touch thermometer.
I thought it would be good for out child and an upcoming baby to be able to just blip them when asleep to check temp if they're ill.
last time round when our first was a baby it was a nightmare trying to keep her still enough to get an underarm reading before we got the ear one when she was a lot older. You still end up waking them up using the ear thermometer as you end up pulling them about a bit to get readings in both ears.
Are the forehead no touch things any good? accurate?
I'm assuming you're meaning the infra red things? Used them for years in lab work, and if they're got enough for Her Majesty's Government I reckon they'll be ok for mini burko
Ask your mid-wife what they prefer. My lad had a contact digital thermometer under his arm and he was cuddled (to hold his arms) until the thermometer beeped. At around £5 you can afford to keep a few in the car, the bedroom, etc
I'm not sure how accurate the non-contact ones are in practice, will you get the same temp on sweaty skin as dry? They certainly vary on different surface finishes in non-human applications
Ours seems to work ok. Tested it a few times when we first got it against the “traditional” types. And it was accurate/similar enough to not worry about it. (Like 0.2 degree different +/-)
Loads easier with a poorly sleeping child to check and see how they are doing. Think it cost about £20 from boots.
Get a laser one.
Christ its entertaining standing in the middle of a room shooting things for their temperature.
Ear temperature at 40 paces? You got it.
We've got both in ear and non contact. Never seem to get anything like the same reading twice with the latter so don't think it can be accurate. Thankfully the boy doesn't mind the in ear one.
Jeff
We use an ear one and just don’t change the cap every time. Bulk from Amazon they’re not wildly expensive anyway.
Babybgoode used to run a ferocious temperature when he was ill (39c +) and our reading always stacked up against the doctors. Wouldn’t use anything else.
We use an ear one and just don’t change the cap every time. Bulk from Amazon they’re not wildly expensive anyway.
Babybgoode used to run a ferocious temperature when he was ill (39c +) and our reading always stacked up against the doctors. Wouldn’t use anything else.
Exactly this with our two. Youngest had bouts of 40+ temps when he was one and the in ear readings we took were always confirmed when we got to hospital.
We don't change the cap every use and it never seems to bother the kids when they're asleep and we've used it.
They don't measure temperature directly, they measure the amount of infrared radiation being emitted by the surface they are measuring and apply a correction factor for core temperature. This will vary depending on the type of surface, (though one type of skin will be similar to another, possibly unless it gets sweaty hot) any cooling breeze etc. The in the ear ones work the same way, but you are taking out a lot of the variables and the temperature of the inner ear will be much closer to core temperature anyway.
So a lot more potential for error. Especially if you are using it from
40 paces
Because the Lazer is nothing to do with the measurement, that's just a pointer to show where the middle of the measurement is made, which gets wider the further away you are. From any distance you are measuring the average of the whole baby, cot mattress and probably a lot of the wall.
Our ambo trust introduced them last year. Six months later it reintroduced tympanic thermometers, after almost universal staff dislike of the fancy new ones. YMMV.