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Subject: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a teamperture taken rectally with a glass rectal thermometer? Author: Pam [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Sunday, May 04, 2025, 04:47: am I am caring for an 8 year old boy named Kyle on an informal basis for an acquaintance that was supposed to be temporary but has stretched into months. When the time comes to take his temperature I will definitely prefer taking his temperature with a glass thermometer but I was cautioned by another home school "mom" that her observation of him his ADD that he would not be suited for having a glass oral thermometer placed in his mouth but rather he have his temperature taken in his rear end (like she does) with a glass rectal thermometer where nothing is required of him but remain passive while the glass rectal thermometer is mounted in his rear end. She said that with her son's mouth unoccupied, there is a lot of complaining which draws unwanted attention to him from other youngsters in the home. but that her What to others feel about it? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: rectally with a glass rectal thermometer? Author: Maude [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Sunday, May 04, 2025, 11:18: am Pam kids complain about anything and everything. Get him alone with you in the bathroom for three minutes and get his temp. taken and let him complain all he wants. I had daughters and granddaughters that needed wiping after they did their doo to make sure they got good and clean at 7 and sometimes 8 years old. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: temperature taken rectally with a glass rectal thermometer... Author: Jack [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 04:07: pm It goes without saying that he needs his temperature taken in his rear end. Regarding his habit of complaining, though I will admit this was a long time ago and times have changed, my mom used to just tape my mouth shut when she wanted me quiet for certain things. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: More on an 8 year old boy getting a rectal temperautre with a glass rectal thermometer? Author: Pam [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 01:32: pm I asked my friend over the phone to borrow her glass rectal thermometer for when I take Kyle's temperature in his rear end. She told me that she would bring it over to me whenever I take his temperature. I told her that is a great idea and have a get together while his temperature is being taken. She then said it is a good idea to take his temperature that way regularly when he is well so that he can prepare himself to the inevitability of having it taken that way when he is sick. She said she could be here at a minutes notice. I got to thinking now is as good as anytime for him to haven his temperature taken in his rear end with a glass rectal thermometer. I shared my thought with her and she said she could be over in a few minutes. She also cautioned her that she is caring for her niece (age 9) and nephew (age 7) and would have to bring them along and I said that's fine. She suggested that his temperature be taken in the living room where the other kids could be supervised and where she could take their temperatures in their mouths at the same time because she said it is a good idea to take a youngster's temperature regularly just in case. I said, sure why not, because it is more efficient to take their temperatures at the same time and why would it matter to me that he is getting his temperature in his butt in front of the two kids having a temperature taken in their mouths. How Kyle feels about it does not count. I told her that I have a folding table, like 6 feet long and 2 feet wide that Kyle would lay down one and the other kids could sit in a couple of dining table chairs facing the table. Then she suggested something I had never thought of and that is to send Kyle to the bathroom where he could do his business sitting on the toilet to make clear passage of the glass rectal thermometer and give him a bathroom wipe as the final step to finish the job. After she to off the phone I sent Kyle to the bathroom with instructions and got the table ready. If anyone is interested, let me know if you want me to tell the rest of what happened and how much detail anyone would like to hear. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Should an 8-year-old boy teamperture taken rectally with a glass rectal thermometer? Author: DeputyDog (Moderator) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2025, 05:41: pm I have many mercury in glass rectal thermometers and would be happy to send a couple to you on request. You need not trouble your neighbor and should be able to use your own rectal thermometer. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a teamperture taken rectally Author: AJC [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Thursday, August 14, 2025, 11:14: pm I'd love to hear what happened. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a teamperture taken rectally Author: Pam [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Sunday, September 14, 2025, 04:53: pm Since my first post, I have been meeting with other moms or other caretakers who use glass thermometers. Of the boys in elementary school (K through 5th grade here, or 5 years old to 9 years old and sometimes older for those boys who have to repeat a grade), all 5 year old boys by default get a temperature taken rectally with a standard 4 inch glass rectal thermometer. Boys at the age of 6 years old and beyond and boys beyond that age that are intellectually impaired and/or neuro-psyc issues such ADHD, ADD, etc., continue to have a temperature taken in the rear end with a glass rectal thermometer. With that being said, also an older boy who is scholastically challenged but not intellectually impaired (where doing homework or studying for tests is his last priority), leading to dismal report card grades, can be regarded as a risk of having a mishap with a glass oral thermometer placed in his mouth and therefore designated to have his temperature taken rectally with a glass rectal thermometer as well. When using a glass thermometer to take the temperature of a 8 to 10 year old boy, the larger and thicker 5 inch glass rectal thermometer is used which compensates for a deeper penetration of his proportionately the larger interior dimension and allowing an additional length passing between his clasped "cheeks". It follows that enabling roughly the same length of the non-entry end seen to clear his cheeks which is made even more visible with its increased thickness (which in turn makes its presence much more apparent to an older boy to a much greater degree than a standard 4 inch glass rectal thermometer. There are a lot more aspects that I can add about using a glass rectal thermometer for taking the temperature of an elementary school age boy. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a teamperture taken rectally Author: Reliance ((Whew!)) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Sunday, September 21, 2025, 09:02: am I remarried just five months ago. We now have his four children and my five, ages ranging from 5 and and a half to 16 years. His children are mostly toddlers and a tween and adolescent and mine are teens and tweens. He is a Naturopathic Doctor. Let my tell you: none of my kids had had rectal temperatures taken nor ever had an enema or suppository. My husband is very keen to emphasize regular bowel maintenance. He hands out rectal temperatures and enemas like they are candy. I'm trying to learn the high enema so my teens don't have to get their enemas from him. They have emotional melt downs when he takes them to our master bathroom for regular maintenance clean out high enemas. They of course also get an enema at least twice a day when ever one is home and in bed sick, or even for a simple cold he cleans them out. I guess an enema is a great stimulant to the body's ability to kick in the immune system. It sure has nipped in the bud any attempts by my three girls and two boys of playing sick so they can stay home from school. I have never ever had an enema growing up and they are so intimidating to me but my girls hate their enemas from their stepdad so I'm trying to get past my own fears and give them their enemas. I can do rectal temperatures but even that was stressful for me at first to make a teen get naked for me to do it. I have been doing so much research on high enemas and I was shocked to learn you can put a soapy enema in the colon. That must be awful to get a soapy enema and then have to have another rinse enema to bring out the soap. Thankfully we only do one really large enema. But the enema has to be very warm because he says a very warm enema relaxes the abdominal muscles around the colon so the enema can works it's way up deep in them. So the last few weeks I've been helping him give the enemas (seems like someone is getting an enema about every other day for some reason) and my heart just pounds thinking about how it must feel for the kid to get their colon filled. He says an enema when done right and with enough warmth of water that it is actually soothing to the colon to take in the enema. So then why are my kids freaking out and hyperventilating? His kids take their enema like there is nothing to it. He says my kids will adjust but we are four months in and numerous enemas and they still have melt downs when they need an enema. They have adjusted to rectal temperature taking so I guess there is hope they will adjust to the enemas. It just needs more time for them to learn how to calm themselves down. Once they are on the toilet with their enema they calm down immediately and seem relaxed getting the enema back out. Takes a long time to get an enema back out. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a..... Author: lapnoloc [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Monday, October 06, 2025, 02:29: pm Reliance, Since you've never experienced an enema before you should have one given to you by your new husband so you known personally what your kids are feeling and why they are freaking out and hyperventilating. Especially the warm high soapy enema. This to me is the only logical way to solve your curiosity about what it feels like. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a..... Author: Reliance [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2025, 12:56: am Well I've had a very rough last two weeks. I got a sinus infection that went into my lungs. I just took my last antibiotic this morning but I'm still not out of the woods. I was very sick last week but getting better little by little. I got literally no sleep for five days because I couldn't lay down because then the fluid in my lungs would trigger awful coughing. I've had to have high probiotic enemas twice a day for 10 days now and yes I now know that enemas are awful, especially when you already don't feel well. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a..... Author: Maude [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2025, 07:03: am Reliance, it is really good that your husband is replenishing your bacteria in your colon with the large probiotic enemas. I know they are not pleasant when you are not feeling well. And you said you are new to enemas so that makes it doubly unpleasant. As to your older children having emotional meltdowns when they need their enema your husband is right, they will come to accept them and start to settle down at enema time. His children take their enemas like there is nothing to it because they started very young and don't know life without enemas once or twice a month. Are they getting a clean out once a month or more often, like weekly? I have numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren by now and they very from family to family. Some get weekly clean outs but most get twice monthly clean outs. For several generations now when someone needs an enema in our families it is no more an emotional issue than being asked to brush their teeth or make their bed. It is just something that is expected and accepted. No fuss, no big deal. Your teens can start learning now to give themselves their enemas except for when they are sick and need someone to help them with it. And the teen girls in our families often like to help give the enemas to the younger kids. So when they grow up and have their own children giving enemas is not a big scary deal like it is for you because of your lack of experience with enemas personally. Glad you are feeling better. Set an example for your kids and accept your high colonic enemas so they see that it is not something to fuss about. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a..... Author: Reliance [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 06:07: am Hi Maude I know the enemas are awful but necessary. I read your past messages about you growing up with enemas for the children in the family. The sit on enema bag with the kid tied arms together and feet dangling so they can't lift up off the enema bag sounds awful too. My husband puts them on their back on our bed with frog legs, bottoms of feet together and knees relaxed and dropped to the side. And he massages the abdomen while they take in the enema. It takes about 15 minutes to slowly take in their enema. He uses a catheter that he inflates so they don't leak. Two of the children have slow transit issues and get an enema every week and all others get a clean out enema every other week to twenty days. No specific schedule just when ever time allows and kid that needs an enema is available. Usually at bedtime but on weekends any time of the day. My three daughters hate the enemas so much. They have no interest in helping give the younger kids their enemas. I also have little interest in giving enemas. Especially after my experience with them. I don't like hurting their feelings making them have the enemas. Even his kids who don't mind their enemas at all I just don't care to give enemas. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a..... Author: Maude [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Friday, October 17, 2025, 09:11: am Reliance your older daughters hate the enemas because they were introduced to them later in growing up. They will adjust to the routine. It just takes a little time. It has been years since you could buy the JBL enema sit on bags and all of ours have worn out and been thrown away. My grandchildren and great grandchildren who still live at home and receive regular enemas get them while in different positions from family to family. But the preferred position in most of the houses even for some of the teenagers is bent over mom's leg. Especially for the younger children we find that we don't want them to be able to see the enema bag. It just gets them too riled up. We want them to concentrate on their breathing and trying to relax and not gasping for air so the abdomen is calm and can take in the enema. If they can't see how much is left in the bag it is easier to talk them through their enema and control the flow so we can slowly work it up into the far part of the colon. Most of our families don't use inflatable nozzles. Some children have trouble with leaking but we have always prepared for that by having lots of absorbent towels and pads under them. We do have one great grandchild now 7 years old that is a real bad leaker. She really struggles getting her enema in her. She tries but she just leaks really bad. Her mom has bought the cone enema nozzle and when pressed tightly against her anus it does a good job of helping her get her enema taken. I'm pretty excited because I have three great grandchildren here for the weekend, ages 8 10 and 12. I get to clean them out today. I rarely get to give enemas now having no young ones around much. Two boys and the 10 year old is a girl. They are expert enema takers so it will be kind of relaxing for them, that's how they see their enemas at this age having had them for several years now. But it is their first enemas from me for a couple of years now. The oldest boy actually has never had an enema from me. His mom says he is starting to give himself his enemas now but he will get it from me today. I think you need to be on a regular clean out schedule along with the children to show them support with this new part of their lives. It will really help them. Your oldest daughter can help give you your enema and it will help her adjust to accepting if not looking forward to her enemas. So many of the children in our families will ask for their enemas now because they like the one on one mommy attention. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Should an 8 year old boy with delays a..... Author: Reliance [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Monday, December 15, 2025, 01:48: pm Hi everybody, Well we have all settled in to our routines. We have a couple of children who have slow transit colons and have to have weekly enema. The rest of our combined 7 including my 16 18 year old get an enema about every 14 to 20 days. It's not set in concrete we just try to get everybody an enema twice a month. And schedules sometimes get in the way so we can't just schedule them permanently for a given day of the week or month. I still don't like giving enemas. I'm not comfortable using the catheter to inflate in them to hold the fluid in them. I do try to give my girls some of their enemas because they hate enemas and don't like getting them from step dad but they are adjusting slowly and don't have anxiety attacks now when they need their enema they just don't like them. His kids sometimes ask for their enema. They are real troopers. They don't know a time in their past when they didn't get enemas. He started all of his kids at the age of 3 on regular enemas. I had my fair share of enemas again last week. That's what prompted me so see what you all are up to. I learn so much about how it is okay to keep kids cleaned out. I know it is good for their health now that we give them enemas I just don't like doing it and I don't like getting enemas. But I will say last week when I was so sick with a stomach but that the enemas he gave me helped me to sleep so good through the night for three days until I kicked the bug. I'm a believer. I just don't like enemas. And I don't like hurting my girls feelings when I need to give them their enema. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]