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[Pecky]

I have a digital no touch and under the tongue thermometers.  The no touch keeps giving different readings from 97-99.9. within mintues of taking it.  When I use the under the tongue it is 97.1-97.5.  I would like to know which one is accurate.

[SilleeMee]

Contact thermometers are always more accurate than the other kinds.

[Desertdi]

Maybe...just use the "average of the two"...

[Kachina624]

No question...I'd trust the under the tongue model.

[cheriere]

@Pecky 

Definately under the tongue.

One time in the hospital, I had a nurse tell me that the only truly accurate way to get a temperature on some people is the way nobody wants to have it taken lol😂

 She also said to add one degree to whatever the under the tongue home thermometer reads.  I don't know if this is true, but I really was told this.🌸

[Still Raining]

It seems sort of hit or miss at times.  Even the under tongue ones vary.  Don't bother much anymore.

[Toppers3]

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@Pecky wrote:

I have a digital no touch and under the tongue thermometers.  The no touch keeps giving different readings from 97-99.9. within mintues of taking it.  When I use the under the tongue it is 97.1-97.5.  I would like to know which one is accurate.

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I can understand your concern.

I bought a no-touch infrared thermometer not too long ago that reads off of our foreheads.

I think that it's pretty accurate because I would have my temperature taken while in the hospital or at the doctor's office, and then when I got this one, it was giving the same readings as the ones in the hospital or doctor's office.

I guess that I would say to bring yours in and have it checked against the one in your doctor's office for accuracy, just as if you were checking a blood pressure machine against the one in their office for accuracy.

[SaveTheTurtles]

If there are batteries involved I would switch them out.

[Pecky]

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@Toppers3 wrote:

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@Pecky wrote:

I have a digital no touch and under the tongue thermometers.  The no touch keeps giving different readings from 97-99.9. within mintues of taking it.  When I use the under the tongue it is 97.1-97.5.  I would like to know which one is accurate.

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I can understand your concern.

I bought a no-touch infrared thermometer not too long ago that reads off of our foreheads.

I think that it's pretty accurate because I would have my temperature taken while in the hospital or at the doctor's office, and then when I got this one, it was giving the same readings as the ones in the hospital or doctor's office.

I guess that I would say to bring yours in and have it checked against the one in your doctor's office for accuracy, just as if you were checking a blood pressure machine against the one in their office for accuracy.

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@Toppers3 Thanks I will do that.  I just find that the under the tongue one stays accurate everytime.  The forehead will show 97.8 and then two minutes later shoots up to 99.5 and a few minutes later back down.  

[Beacon girl]

That’s the way my mother took out temps back in the 50’s. I don’t think there was any other way then. 🤒