Product Description

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10057 in Baby Product
• Brand: Safety 1st
• Model: 49501
• Released on: 2007-02-22
• Dimensions: 8.88" h x 5.00" w x 2.13" l, .75 pounds

Features

• Replaceable long-life lithium battery included
• On/Off button with a 1 minute auto shut off
• Memory recall feature
• Beeps when complete
• Birth and Up

From the Manufacturer
The Safety 1st Ear Thermometer is ideal for the whole family. It takes an accurate reading in 3 seconds. No probe covers are needed.

Customer Reviews

Safety First (Accuracy Second)
This thing is quick (~1 second) but wildly inaccurate. The instructions note how you're supposed to place it *just* right in the ear canal, by holding/pulling your ear back just so and inserting this into the ear canal so there is a good seal.

Even if this is done I've gotten wildly different temperatures, even on my own ear multiple times using the same method of placement. I took my wife's temperature (when we got this, to test it out) and according to this she had a fever of 101.3, 102.3, and 102-something in 3 different readings. We went to a corner drug store and got a digital thermometer (placed in the mount, takes about 1 minute to work) and it read 97.6.

We got this to use for a newborn but with the wildly different readings and no confidence that any of them are nearly close to being accurate, what's the point?

I'll give it props for being 1. safe and 2. really quick! But it's about as useful as a random number generator. Wish it weren't, it would be a lot easier to use than something that takes 30-60 seconds to get a reading.

Quick, easy and reliable
This thermometer is really easy to use and really fast measuring the temperature. When having a baby, is really hard to keep the baby from moving when those old style thermometers measure their temperature, wich can take up to 4 minutes. But this one is ligthning fast, it takes only 1 second! I recommend that to all of those with kids at home!

Wildly varying results make this worthless
I really wanted this to work well, as the super quick readings make it convenient to check the temperature on a squirming infant. Neither my wife or I could get consistent readings at all though. We both tried several times on each other (and in desperation on ourselves).

Not only were the readings inaccurate (I do not have a 103 degree fever), but they also varied dramatically, as much as 4 degrees in either direction.

We also tried on our daughter and got excited when our first reading was a direct hit at 98.6. Subsequent readings were as low as 96 though, and were generally all over the board.

With much regret, we returned the product. I guess back to more traditional thermometers we go.