Health Thermometer Reviews

Vicks Rectal Baby Thermometer

The Vicks rectal baby thermometer has become extremely popular, and has also been much-commented upon in the media. It is one of three thermometers that are in the Vicks Life Stages series.

The Parent World website wrote:

Suffice it to say that when you're taking your baby's temperature, the circumstances are likely not pleasant. At least make it easy with Vicks' new Life Stages Baby Thermometer. Results are accurate, but more importantly, they're quick. The ComfortFlex tip means less discomfort, and the large back-lit display makes reading results a snap during daytime or night.

Business Week in January 2006 wrote about the thermometer’s design process:

For sanitary reasons, the key was to stray from the previous concept of multipurpose digital thermometers that could be inserted in various areas of the body. And a specific design challenge was to eliminate push-button activation standards that unintentionally harmed a baby when parents pushed the button and consequently inserted the thermometer deeper into the infant's rectum.

Smart [Design]'s designers also resolved to make a device that could be operated with only one hand -- most rectal digital thermometers require two-handed use -- so a parent could hold the baby with the other. The breakthrough concept was to come up with an instinctually squeezable device.

The Medical Device Link website said:

The Vicks Baby Thermometer is designed for safer and easier rectal temperature measurement in babies. Its compact, ergonomic design makes it easy to hold and control, while the large display makes viewing easy. The short probe helps guard against over-insertion.

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March 20^th, 2006