Internet Guide to Finding the Best Home Medical Thermometer
Commercial sites like Amazon.com and
Epinions include user reviews. Here are links to reports I've written,
summarising reviews of several of the most popular models:
Medical sites – and some
others – contain a lot of introductory information on temperature, on
thermometers and on how to use them.
The eHow website includes a series of basic instruction sheets:
How to use a rectal thermometer How to use a digital ear thermometer How to chart your basal body termperature
Ear Thermometers
A short article is at the How Stuff Works website, titled “How do ear thermometers work?” The iVillage: Pregnancy and Parenting site contains a doctor’s article, “Are ear thermometers accurate?” See also the Braun company website.
Babies
A comprehensive article at the Baby Center site discusses “How to take your baby’s temperature.” Another article is titled “What kind of thermometer is the most accurate?” The Yale Medical Group has a useful article, “Measuring a baby’s termperature.” An interesting article talks about a design award for a Vicks baby thermometer. See also my own article, "Choosing the Best Baby Thermometer".
Basal Thermometers
Many women’s and pregnancy websites discuss these. An example is the Sister Zeus site. The Beyond Fertility commercial site offers an article, “Do I need a basal thermometer?”
Companies
This site contains a lot of information, including a comprehensive and useful article, titled Accuracy, which discusses such topics as the different types of thermometers, their accuracy and factors that can give false readings.
Exergen provides a considerable amount of detail on its non-invasive thermometer products.
This site highlights the company’s basal thermometers and it provides downloadable fertility/BBT charts.
An introduction to the company’s products.
An outline of the company’s products.
Omron introduces its products and also includes information on fevers.
You can find here an introduction to the company’s products.
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