How to Use Thermometer: Viral fever, cough, cold, fever are inevitable in the changing season. Many times it happens that you start feeling tired even without doing any work. Not only this, you feel inside that you have fever. Some people eat medicine directly when fever is filled, while some people eat medicine only after checking with a thermometer.
Even today many people do not know how to check fever with thermometer properly. Because of which the readings come wrong and then they take medicine accordingly. By doing this, the medicine can have a bad effect on your health. Thermometer is easy to use but many people often make a common mistake. Because of which the proper information about your body temperature is not available.
Let’s know what is the right way to check fever with thermometer?
keep the lens clean
First of all keep the lens clean. Clean the dust, mud or any kind of dirt on it with a clean cloth. Sometimes the reading is wrong due to accumulation of dirt. The second and most important thing is that whenever you measure fever with a thermometer, clean the lens of the scanner thoroughly.
focus on diet
Drinking hot or cold water affects the body temperature a lot. Because of which the thermometer sometimes starts giving wrong readings of fever. So always remember one thing that whenever you check fever, always avoid eating or drinking anything hot or cold 15 minutes before.
place a thermometer under the tongue
Some people do not set the thermometer properly in the mouth while checking fever. That’s why it is important that while checking fever, always keep the thermometer under the tongue and keep it for 5 minutes.
type of thermometer
Mercury thermometer is best for giving the correct reading of fever. But nowadays such thermometers are rarely seen in the market.
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