Rectal temperature in Scandinavian Countries

I recently saw a few internet posts about rectal temperature being common in Scandinavian countries. One of the websites was experienceproject.com, and the other was an article titled "Swedish study finds temp best taken from behind." Is anyone familiar with that?

Experience Project was a great site unfortunately it has gone on what is already a 2 year hiatus and I doubt it's coming back. Your link BTW took me nowhere Might want to check that!

For those interested, here's the link to the study ...

https://www.thelocal.se/20091015/22678

At least in Sweden rectal thermometers were very common during the 70's and 80's. Almost all children had their temperature taken rectally. And still today you can of course buy rectal thermometers in pharmacies... When I was a kid in the eighties rectal thermometers were still quite common here and I was early told it was the most accurate way to take the temperature rectally. Even my parents used rectal thermometers. So in our family, it was a quite natural thing...

The experience project.com website brings you to the rectal temps posts if you / stories/rectal temps. The posts appear to be a couple of years old. Hope that works.

I am not familiar with that study, but I, as a danish person, grew up with rectal temperature. And I think it was the norm back in the 80's and 90's.

Yes, I read this study as well. That's also what I was told, that it's the most accurate way. I think most kids growing up in the 80's in Sweden had rectal temps at home.

I'm from UK but have lived in Germany and France in my time. It was a few years ago but in hospital rectal temperature was a norm in my experience in both those countries. Different to UK but similar to people's experiences in Scandinavian countries.

Love rectal temp taken It is most acurate

My best day. Get up at 6:00am and go to aquatic center to walk in water. Go home and take 3H enema. In evening take Alo Vera or lemon juice enema. Take rectal temp. then to see if ok.

I wholeheartedly concur with this study!

Experienceproject.com - This site was closed down (for similar reasons to the craigslist shut down)

Experience Project was a great site unfortunately it has gone on what is already a 2 year hiatus and I doubt it's coming back. Your link BTW took me nowhere Might want to check that!

I wasn't surprised Experienceproject.com was shut down. It had been inundated with questionable photos and stories. I left it years before it finally was closed down. Only stayed a short time.

I tried an alternative to experience project, called Similar worlds, it's not the same.

It is still the best way to measure a persons temperatur. As a doctor I’ve been fighting for years to make the nurses stop measuring temperature in the ears

I haven't seen an ear thermometer in over 20 years. The only type that I see are the electronic oral variety.