Home Health Care Series

Part 1 - Temperature

Today, we'll start with what's the best, most accurate, and safest way to take your own or someone else's temperature.

The CDC prescribes that temperature be taken twice per day (once in the morning and once at night) and monitored (and recorded if a person believes they’ve been exposed to COVID-19). If a temperature is above 100.4° F, you should take the necessary actions recommended by the CDC. However, before taking your temperature, you should wait at least 30 minutes after eating, drinking, or exercising and at least six hours after taking medicines that may lower your temperature, such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen, or aspirin.

So, you’ve waited 30 minutes (or six hours) and it’s morning (or bedtime). Which method is the most accurate while the safest one to use?

Johns Hopkins provides four ways to take temperature: Orally, Rectally, Axillary, By Ear, or By Skin. Pre-virus, taking another person’s temperature using any of these methods was generally safe, but today, taking temperature by ear or the skin is considered the safest because neither requires bodily contact.

One way to keep yourself and your family safe is to equip the home with The Hospital Grade No Contact Thermometer.

• Provides an accurate temperature reading in only one second without the need to make physical contact with a person who’s temperature is being taken.
• Used by hospitals for hygienic operation and it’s convenient
• Takes readings from the forehead
• Luggage/duffel handles for a trip you can’t avoid
• Displays temperature in Fahrenheit or Celsius on an backlit LCD
• Stores up to 32 readings - ideal if you follow CDC guidelines for taking and recording temperature readings twice per day.

A reliable, accurate thermometer provides an important essential for any stay-at-home healthcare kit. Please come back next week when we provide tips and product suggestions for taking your blood pressure at home.