How accurate are thermometer guns!

[Bookriddle]

So for the 4th time in 3 weeks and 2 covid test later, took my little one to nursery this morning, they checked her temp and it was 38.8, so how accurate are these guns!?

I have taken her home and checked her temp myself and it has come back at 36.8
I have had to take the day off work unpaid and will lose another £85 for nursery

She is absolutely fine, running around the house, she has eaten her breakfast!

So pissed off

Not very. I can remember before covid a couple of occasions where a doctor and a nurse (seperate times) both complained about how unreliable they were and went to get a different type before checking my temp.

I think they're rubbish and often used by people who aren't trained to use/interpret the results properly. I've gone from hypothermic to febrile in a day. But, I just do as I'm told! And I'm no expert, but they make no sense to me. I feel like they're a prop.

@Bookriddle

So for the 4th time in 3 weeks and 2 covid test later, took my little one to nursery this morning, they checked her temp and it was 38.8, so how accurate are these guns!?

I have taken her home and checked her temp myself and it has come back at 36.8
I have had to take the day off work unpaid and will lose another £85 for nursery

She is absolutely fine, running around the house, she has eaten her breakfast!

So pissed off

The guns are pretty accurate, you're forehead isn't though and it doesn't take much to move it one way or the other

@Sapho47 sorry should of said, I used a normal thermometer at home not the gun!

Not very. The ones at my work give ridiculous low and high readings, then read a normal temp a few minutes later. Luckily my workplace has common sense and checks a high temp twice before anyone is sent home.

Not very if at social distance. I used to regularly be clinically dead or in need of ICU when checked before my sons sport...

If she has got hot in the car on the way to nursery then they aren't very accurate. Personally I tested at 38.4 at the dentist, having sat in a hot car for 30 mins to get there. Luckily they used common sense and retook it 2 mins later when it was normal again.

People often aren’t great at interpreting the results either. Pre-lockdown, I went for a haircut and was told “32!” and waved in with a smile. My temperature was pretty clearly NOT 32 degrees.

I would take your own thermometer from now on with you

Not very the in ear ones are much better, we had a forehead one that caused much concern when DS was tiny, I pretty quickly worked out it wasn't accurate at all, we've now got a Braun thermoscan with the disposable tips, seems to be very accurate and the same one our local hospital use

They’re not very accurate at all. I’ve also heard they need to be recalibrated regularly. I completely understand that nursery is trying to keep everyone safe, but this is ridiculous. Clearly they have a problem with their thermometer.

Ask them to take it from her neck or her wrist. That’s what I was advised when they started rolling out, anyway, my forehead temperature always makes me either a snowman or on fire.

Took DS to the opticians the other day, he was a little high cos I'd just taken his woolly hat off. Thankfully the receptionist realised this and took it again. So they do seem a bit rubbish.

Paramedics came out to my baby last year after I had her temperature at 39.9 and her breathing was laboured with a negative covid test. In the ambulance they used a temperature gun and got a range of bizarre readings. Her forehead was 39.8, her tummy was 40, back to forehead and it was suddenly 41 and the bloody thing started beeping.
When we got into the assessment unit and they used a different type of thermometer it was 39 🤷‍♀️

If your wrapped up and warm like you would be entering a warm building, dressed for outside, it gives an inaccurate reading, likewise if your forehead is cold because you've been outside too lobg in the cold not wrapped up