Re: Need Good Thermometer / comparisons

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Hi Dorothy: mine always go down, too! I thought it might be the thermometer

itself, which would be at about 70 degrees, cooling the bottom of my tongue a

little where it contacted the tissue.

You are right, putting both in at the SAME TIME right next to each other would

be a better way to compare them than doing one AFTER the other.

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> > " Taking one's temperature several times in a row will yield temperatures

that rise each time.

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> Funny. Mine always go down. I hypothesized that it might be because holding

the mouth and tongue tight restricts the blood flow.

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> > This complicates the task of comparing the accuracy of one thermometer

against another.

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> You can always put them in your mouth at the same time, as close to the same

spot as possible.

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> Dorothy

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