So I grew up with thermometers that went under your tongue and took forever. I gather technology and/or methods have progressed since then. I’d like to buy a thermometer here in Taiwan to measure body temperature: can anyone recommend a specific brand or type?
Nothing fancy, just a routine type of thing to keep in the first-aid kit. Obviously covid-19 is the immediate prompt for this this, but I’ve been meaning to get one for years anyway.
Stop by your local baby supply store. They usually have the best selection for all types of thermometers. The under-the-tongue type thermometers have been updated and they don’t take long to beep at all.
900 NTD from the local pharmacy (they don’t seem to be flying of the shelves, by had to ask for it). Accurate and easy to use. Widely accepted results, as my pharmacist and doctor uses the same model by carrying it around and showing the results to avoid “public use” thermometers.
Mom used to stick it under my armpits and add a degree or so before I could be trusted to do an under-the-tongue measurement properly. Can’t recall the times it got stuck up my ass, thankfully.
IIRC Reagan was very very old, so I think you might be exaggerating.
I didn’t know they beeped now either, though. The ones I remember had a kink in the capilliary which I THINK was a “hold” function for the mercury (though that sounds a bit implausible, and mercury sounds a bit toxic. Maybe they were alcohol but I don’t think so.)
They were kept in a special starched pocket over the nurses special starched boobs, and when she’d finished she’d give it a violent… er… jerk to re-settle the liquid, somehow dominatrix-esque.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.