What's the rule on temperatures?

Question

I vaguely remember something like, if you take the temp under your child's arm, you're supposed to add 1 degree. If orally, the temp is accurate. If taken rectally, you subtract a degree.... or something along those lines...

Anyone else hear of this or am I remembering wrong?

Answer 1

you add a degree in the arm and subtract a degree from the rectally.

Answer 2

Go to Walmart and get one of those "Temporal Thermometers" that you just swipe across from your child's forehead to the side of his head, next to his ear.

Takes about one second, and is incredibly accurate.  It measures temp like a billion times a second, and averages the final temp, and they are not that expensive.  Like $40 or so?

Answer 3

Oral and anal temps are what they read. Axillary (armpit) you add a degree.  

Answer 4

thats right  

Answer 5

you are correct.