Re: Taking your own temperature.

[Guest guest]

Because the numbers are based on under the arm. They tend to be a bit lower than oral. I use a digital for my children but they tend to be less accurate.

Steph

Taking your own temperature.

I hear everywhere that you are supposed to take your morningtemperature while still in bed, with an old fashioned thermometer inyour armpit (to determine if you might have a thyroid problem). Any reason why we can't use a digital thermometer in the mouth? Imean, temperature is temperature, whether it's armpit or anywhere else. My hands are virtually never cold, not even in a cold house in thewinter. Yet that doesn't prove anything, I don't think. I want toknow my morning body temperature, so I'd appreciate your advice retype of thermometer. Thanx.

[Guest guest]

Axillary temp is more accurate, albeit lower by about 1 degree F, because the thermometer is closer to your core (heart). Mouth temp can be varaible due to environmental issues, like breathing, drinking, etc. It's the core temp you want to monitor. In anesthesia we put a temp probe down the esophagus to be truly in the core of the body, and close to the heart. You also know of course, taking it b4 getting up so it is not influenced by muscular activity, which will elevate it. Life's journey is not to go to the grave in a perfectly preserved body, but to slide in sideways, totally worn out yelling. Good God What A Ride!!

[Guest guest]

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> Axillary temp is more accurate, albeit lower by about 1 degree F,

because the thermometer is closer to your core (heart). Mouth temp

can be varaible due to environmental issues, like breathing, drinking,

etc. It's the core temp you want to monitor. In anesthesia we put a

temp probe down the esophagus to be truly in the core of the body, and

close to the heart. You also know of course, taking it b4 getting up

so it is not influenced by muscular activity, which will elevate it.

>

>

> Life's journey is not to go to the grave in a perfectly preserved

body, but to slide in sideways, totally worn out yelling. Good God

What A Ride!!

>

Hi, thank you, and also to Ladybugs, for answering my question, sort

of. I do need more help tho:

1. Does this mean that we have to use one of those old-fashioned

mercury (GASP) thermometers, rather than the digital? Or is the

digital useful also in the armpit.

2. When you say that it is lower by c. 1 degree F compared to the

mouth method, does that mean that 97.6 is then normal? Does this

" normal " refer to first thing in the morning, no muscular activity, or

does it refer to later in the day, after you're out of bed and have

moved around a little bit?

3. Also, regarding the glass mercury thermometers: do they also have

a celsius reading? If I remember correctly, isn't 'normal' exactly

37? It is strange to me that the experts decided that an exact figure

would be normal, doncha think.

4. Hey, I'm not finished yet. Does your feeling of coldness in bed

(because of being in a mighty cold bedroom and you don't have

sufficient covers, which is my situation)affect your internal

temperature? But even so, my hands are not cold, which is supposedly

a sign of deficient thyroid.

Sorry to bother you so much. Tks. - Mrs. B.

PS. , I like your wise saying at the end of your post. That is

so true! We's all gonna die, yes, die, and the microbes are gonna eat

us up, so let's have some fun.

[Guest guest]

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> You can't buy mercury thermometers anymore. They are illegal to

mfgr. Go to Amazon.com and search for a basal thermometer. I posted

a link to it earlier.

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> Steph

>

Golly. I don't know about the USA, but in Canada they are slowly

illegalizing ordinary, old-fashioned lightbulbs and making it

mandatory to only sell & manufacture the " energy-saving " coiled ones -

which apparently contain mercury and are a hazard if you break them.

Lord jeezus, take me now.

[Guest guest]

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> Yep that's here too. The plan is by 2010 I believe. I hate them.

They burn out too fast and when they break I have a day of panic

attacks. I am deathly allergic (for lack of a better term) to mercury.

>

Hi. I heard that it's the cheap ones made in China that burn out

fast. But if you don't mind paying a whole bunch more $$$ for those

bulbs made elsewhere, apparently they do last a long time. In any

case, I hate them even tho I have not tried them. I hope to round up

some money and buy a whole damn carload, and that'll see me, God

willing, into my old age.

That is terrible about your reaction to a broken bulb. Sheesh. The

govt must have its own ulterior motives for compulsory introduction of

these hazards. Maybe now that so many people are onto mercury in your

teeth, hey, they gotta compensate somehow, to make sure we continue to

get sick + stupid.

[Guest guest]

That's because she did the "right" thing. Most of us will not. My husband broke a fluorescent bulb in our laundry room. I didn't know it and was in my kitchen (next to the LR) doing some cooking / baking and I kept getting panic attacks. I couldn't figure out why.I had a panic attack on Saturday and I had no idea why. I did go to a dinner at a church in my community. I wonder if the reason I had the panic attack was because they had broken a fluorescent bulb in the building. It was really a strange, embarrassing thing for me.