Costco Connection - June 2010

Because of this, your body will need more fluids than normal. Fluids also help your body decongest, which helps you get better faster, while eating keeps your strength up.

Buyer’s pıck Susan Hudson Pharmacy Buyer

FRANCE FREEMAN

MYTH: Touching the skin is a
reliable test of one’s temperature.

How a person’s forehead feels to the touch can be affected by many things. The only way to gauge a person’s true internal temperature is with a reliable thermometer.

MYTH: Fevers cause brain
damage and fevers higher than
104 degrees are dangerous.

Although seeing a temperature reading of 104 degrees or so can cause alarm, fevers with infections don’t cause brain damage. Only internal temperatures of 108 or higher, which are extremely rare, can cause brain damage.

MYTH: Temperatures between
98.7 and 100 degrees are low-
grade fevers.

Your internal temperature goes through normal variations throughout the day, typically peaking in the late afternoon and evening. A low-grade fever is an internal temperature of 100 to 102. C

Information provided by Kaiser Permanente health organization.

WHEN I WAS raising my children, the only thermometers available were the rectal or oral mercury type. Since then, the latest and greatest thermometer advancement is the Exergen Temporal Artery Thermometer; it’s both noninvasive and easy to use, providing an accurate temperature with just a simple, gentle stroke across the forehead.

The Exergen thermometer uses infrared technology to measure temperature over the temporal artery in the head in about two seconds. As you move the thermometer across the forehead, a sensor scans naturally emitted infrared heat from the arterial blood supply while also measuring the ambient temperature of the room. Software then balances the two separate readings to accurately determine and display body temperature.

Whether you need to take your own, an elderly parent’s, an infant’s or an adolescent’s temperature, you will find the Exergen thermometer to be easy to use, accurate and noninvasive. C gentle stroke across the forehead.