Use a Temporal Thermometer for Accurate Readings

No other vital sign is more important in monitoring the health of a child than the body temperature reading, and the temporal thermometer provides accurate readings.  In hospitals, nursing homes, and any child’s bedroom, this device can allow a nurse or a mother to check a person’s temperature with minimal disturbance that can be assured that the information is reliable.  The most modern method, unmatched accuracy, and very few limitations make this thermometer a necessity in the health monitoring arsenal.

Over the years, the trained hand could touch the forehead and detect the presence of fever that could explain the pallor and discomfort reflected on a person’s face.  Other methods have been invented and touted as the most accurate way to measure body temperature to indicate the presence of infection or disease that must be treated to restore health.  The temperature of the blood flowing from the heart is equal to that of the blood flowing through the arteries.  By reading the ambient temperature and compensating for the temperature loss on the skin, the Exergen temporal thermometer reads the heat emitted in the skin covering the temporal artery, which runs across the forehead.  

Drawing this thermometer across the forehead in a line drawn between the hairline and the eyebrows will provide a reliable temperature reading.  Attempts to measure the body temperature in the mouth can be affected by drinking, breathing through the mouth, or snoring, prior to the use of a mercury-based oral thermometer.  The same thermometer style used in the armpit will provide a completely different reading.  Rectal thermometers are somewhat accurate but too intrusive.  Thermometers inserted in the ear to read the body temperature are uncomfortable and produce inconsistent results because placement angle is difficult to repeat.

If the temporal thermometer is used repeatedly, the motion encounters some cooling of the skin across the skin.  A straight line across the forehead is required without drawing the thermometer down the side of the face where the artery is much further from the skin and will return a lower reading.  Only the exposed portion of the forehead will provide an accurate reading and pushing a pillow back to expose the skin will provide a much higher reading. 

When someone is not feeling well, the use of a temporal thermometer that can measure the arterial blood temperature is an unobtrusive method of monitoring a vital sign that is crucial to diagnosis of the medical condition.  Children, adults, and seniors will all benefit from the use of this modern marvel.