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Originally Posted by Por_sha911

OK so, I'm looking at one to measure temperature to indicate a fever. I guess I can test it when there is no fever and get a +/- baseline for accuracy. As long as the variance is always the same, I don't care if it is high or low. This way if someone doesn't feel well in the middle of the night we can get a quick and "relatively accurate" reading. I just don't want to take 4 readings and get 4 results that are 5 degrees off of the high and low.
Thanks for the responses.

One note: if the kid is burying their head in the pillow and you take a measurement right away, it will probably be very high. I've found that you have to give it a minute or two first.

We usually switch to an oral thermometer when we get a high reading (102+) and generally find the high temperature is due to the above effect.