I'm not after the accuracy really, the point is it's as instant as the hand
on forehead approach, and possibly a little more accurate.
Paul
>>Other top kit which seems to have been a freebie from somewhere and which
I
>>have bagsied, is one of those click in the ear thermometers. *very* handy
>>even on a wiggling child.
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>>Dr Paul Galloway
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>Why, apart from rare specialist circumstances, would you ever want to
>measure a child's temperature with such accuracy? A hand pressed lightly
>across the child's forehead will invariably tell you whether they have a
>temperature or not, which is all you need to know in most cases, and you
can
>get enough of a quantitative reading with a simple plastic strip
>thermometer.
>The only reason for wanting to stick something in a kid's ear has probably
>more to do with the thread on "Brats in the Surgery" !
>
>C-P
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