Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 7ScienceHeat5 Marks
Question
While reading a clinical thermometer, what precautions should we take?
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Answer
Reading a Clinical Thermometer- There are following steps to read the temperature on a thermometer. Step I: Firstly, wash the thermometer with an antiseptic solution and if in case, the antiseptic solution is not available, then wash it with a clean water. Step II: Gently, hold the thermometer tube in your hand and give it a jerk in such a way that the mercury thread in the thermometer tube falls below the reading of $35^\circ C.$ Step III: Now, put the bulb of the thermometer under the tongue of the patient for about one minute. Then take out the thermometer from patient’s mouth. Step IV: In order to read the temperature, hold the thermometer horizontally in your hand and rotate it slowly. When we see a magnified image of the mercury thread in its tube, then a position will come. Now, read the temperature on thermometer tube in level with the top of the mercury thread. Precautions while Reading the Thermometer: A clinical thermometer should not be used for any object other than the human body. There are some following precautions which are to be observed while reading a clinical thermometer.
Wash the clinical thermometer before and after using preferably with an antiseptic solution.
Be ensure that the mercury level before using the clinical thermometer should be below $35^\circ C.$
The clinical thermometer should be read by keeping the level of mercury along the line of sight.
While reading the clinical thermometer, it should never be held by the bulb.
The clinical thermometer should be carefully handled.
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