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You can assess a fever based on symptoms without a thermometer while also looking at potential causative factors. So things to look out for are feeling extremely hot causing whole body sweats, followed by feeling insatiably cold, requiring layers of bedding and experiencing whole body shaking (rigors).
Color-coding thermometers lets you tell an oral thermometer from a rectal thermometer quickly. (1) The bulb of a rectal thermometer is short and thick in order to protect the rectum (figure 2-5 B). A long, slender bulb tip could accidentally injure the patient by penetrating the walls of the rectum.