Why can't you put an ordinary digital thermometer in your mouth?? We always have!

[ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands]

Rang my mum to ask if she'd pick us up a new one as most of us are ill (and I don't trust the in-the-ear jobby I invested in last year.. there's no way it's accurate) and asked mum to get an ordinary digital thermometer, you knows the ones, about the size of a pen, cost about £3-5.

Mum described them to the lady as the ones you can put under your arm or in your mouth as I described them to her.. Lady In Superdrug says you can NOT put them in your mouth!!

Why not??

We always have and we haven't spontaneously combusted yet!! I rinse the ends briefly under a tap as well!! And they generally last years on one battery!

I really hankered after an in the ear thermometer.. and spent an evening "with" Mumsnetters pricing them up (about this time last year when the kids were ill like this before.. but that time I wasn't ill with them .. and eventually found one for a tenner which I was really pleased with.

I soon realised it wasn't giving the same readings.. or anything like.. those of my much trusted ordinary digital (I just wanted something quicker.. DS who has CP is very hard to keep still.) I am good at judging to half a degree just with my hand.. so my hand is better than the ear one we have.

I got it out yesterday when the battery gave up in the old faithful, and it said I was 39 degrees!! I didn't even feel bad at that stage! My friend brought hers round a short while later and I was actually 38.1.

Not that I really cared about my own temp all that much.. I'm hardly likely to have a febrile convulsion after all. But when I thought I was 39 degrees, I thought I might sit back and relax and maybe hallucinate a few naked men or something..

I do have a basic digitial - which I shall keep as a back-up. Like you say I tend to rely much more on my hand these days anyway.

I think I just bought the "wrong" one.. it's an Innovation Radiant make, whatever that is..

(Probably like the Alba of in-the-ear thermometers.. )

can you link it Shiny?
I bought mine from Mothercare around 4 yrs ago!

It's similar to this ML but mine is a TH-1 and I think these are all updated ones. Perhaps other people had the same problem

Mines the top of hte range Braun. Cost £40 but I got £40 Haven vouchers for buying it. Don't know which was free - the thermometer or the holiday?!?!?!