<p>I meant to send d with a thermometer (for body temp) but I forgot. As sending care packages seems to be part of my new job title, I’d like to send one to her. So what thermometer do you recommend? I’d like her to take her temp at various times (waking, etc.) before she actually is sick, so she’ll know what her normal temp is.
Thanks - I’m all ears. :)</p>
<p>Simply buy the house brand (Rite Aid, CVS, whatever) of a digital readout thermometer.
Press the button, wait for the digital readout to go blank, put it in mouth, wait for the beep, read the digital readout of temperature.</p>
<p>^I agree. They aren’t too expensive, they are fast enough and they beep when they are ready to read.</p>
<p>Agreed. We got one for under $5 at Target.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter which one you send - she probably will not use it anyway :)</p>
<p>^^ LOL oh well a mom can dream. ;)</p>
<p>Thanks all. Got the CVS digital one and it’s on its way to its new dorm life. :)</p>
<p>I think we have 3 of them in the house and they all read differently. I ended up writing the “normal” temp in a sharpie right on the case so I could remember if it read high or low. (I just sent my son to school with a CVS digital and I think it was between $5-7.</p>
<p>to go to the infirmary when they begin to get ill, rather than wait until they are miserable. Most ailments are better treated earlier, rather than later. We wonder why our son let his eardrum rupture before seeking medical attention during finals week… How much easier it would have been to get medical attention at the first sign of an intense earache!</p>