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My mother told me that when I was very young (too young to remember), I was sick and she stuck a thermometer in my mouth to take my temperature. And I promptly
by ubernostrum 11y ago
My mother told me that when I was very young (too young to remember), I was sick and she stuck a thermometer in my mouth to take my temperature. And I promptly bit the end off it, and had to be rushed to the hospital to have my stomach cleaned out of mercury.
- jcadam 11y agoI did that as a small child. I have a vague recollection of it. Pretty sure I wasn't rushed to the hospital. My mother was mostly upset I ruined the thermometer.
- leni536 11y ago>in my mouth Was that common in the US for mercury thermometers? In Hungary it was always "under the armpit" but as far as I remember I have seen the thermometer in mouth method in US cartoons.
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- ghaff 11y agoYes. I always had my temperature taken orally. (Although I don't use mercury thermometers these days.)