Do the new digital thermometers stay in your mouth when you use them?

They pop out of my mouth too. Yes, they need redesigned. I went back to the old fashion thermometers with mercury.

Yeah, they’re hard for me, too, when I’m at the doctor’s office.

Hey, @LuckyGuy, there you go, an engineering problem for you to solve! :-)

@canidmajor I was in the hospital recently and noticed a lot of things that could use improvement – beside the human body!

I’ve been making a list.
I wonder if the shape is ok for a lot of people and we are the minority.

We’re just special! :-)

medical things are often designed by doctors and don’t always go through the design engineer’s hands before hitting the manufacturing floor.
There’s your next career line!

The hospitals in my area have started using the thermometers that they roll across your forehead and down the side of your face because they are cheap. My temperature was anywhere from 92 degrees to 103. My doctor was pissed that the nurses wrote these numbers down instead of getting a real thermometer to get an accurate reading.

We bought a monitor that you just press against your forehead.

I’m going to try modifying this one to see if i can improve the design for folks like us. I will make some horizontal ridges on the surface where the lips touch it. That might help keep it from squeezing out.

Maybe a thin layer of a higher friction surface to help prevent slipping?

@canidmajor !!! Ugh!

Not ugh, maybe a thin rubber-like layer?
What on earth did you think I meant???)

I got confused. I thought we were on the thread where he was talking about his sigmoid. lol

Hahaha, @chyna, yuck indeed!!!

A thin layer would work. I am going to knurl it slightly with some kind of an imprint. I figure it will not take much.

I was in the hospital for a few days a few years ago, and was tested and tested for a while before that, and I don’t recall having any trouble with the digital thermometers.

I don’t remember having any trouble when I’ve used them at the doctor’s office. The reading is much faster than the old fashioned kind. At home I only have the mercury thermometers.