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Information about clinical thermometers

Formerly clinical thermometers worked with mercury in a glass tube. Because mercury is very poisoning for the human body, the very fragile material the thermometers been made of and the difficult disposal, mercury is not allowed to be used in thermometers nowadays.

Clinical thermometers nowadays

Clinical thermometers can be separate in 3 categories. Instead of mercury, Galistan is used nowadays. These thermometers are in the same design as the mercury thermometers but they’re not poisoning. Because these thermometers are made of glass they can be disinfected easily.

Also, they’re offered digital thermometers which are offered as contact and contactless thermometers. The contact digital thermometer measures the body temperature with a tip made of nickel so it can’t be used for people who are allergic to nickel.

Contactless thermometers are working with infrared sensors to measure the body temperature, so it is more hygienic to use them instead of normal thermometers.