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I highly recommend this…

I know what your thinking, you recommend what?  One of my favorite things to read on some other blogs I frequent is a good product review and recommendation. I am also trying to hold true to my promise to myself to be more active on the blog for 2010 and felt that this would be a good topic to share.

With all the crazy sickness going around taking one’s temperature is pretty important to gauge if your body is impacted by a certain sickness. Well my family has always been the traditional stick-it-under-your-tongue thermometer people, but that all changed last week when we got an Exergen Temporal Artery Thermometer. Here is a link to the exact model on Amazon that we got:

This thing is so awesome and it makes me wonder how we managed for so long with the old fashioned thermometer we had been using. You literally hold it to the forehead, swipe across towards the hair line and you have your temp. The other night we were trying it out and it was quick (we managed to take 3 people’s temp twice each in under a minute), easy (my 4 year-old used it on me without issue), and really quite inexpensive at about $30.

Now we did have some slight variations in temperature but it didn’t appear to be significant enough to cause alarm. It is said to be slightly less accurate then the old fashioned under the tongue thermometer, but more accurate then the in-the-ear thermometer. With a new baby on the way I am just excited by the fact that we don’t need to do a in-the-butt or in-the-armpit temp taking any more!