Mosen Baby Thermometer | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Caring for a feverish baby isn’t fun for you or your child, but you’re both lucky that you’re fighting that fever after the year 2000. For decades, parents had to rely on glass mercury thermometers when their kids started looking a little green.

Mercury thermometers were invented in 1714. They weren’t very safe to keep around the house. If you dropped one on the floor, the mercury could leak out and put your family at risk. Ingesting, touching or even just inhaling mercury can lead to uncomfortable and dangerous symptoms ranging from skin inflammation to decreased cognitive functioning. Spilled mercury is also notoriously difficult to properly clean up, making slip-ups extra dangerous. 

So why did mercury thermometers stick around so long? Well, for one thing, they were extremely accurate. Mercury has high thermal conductivity, and it’s very sensitive to temperature changes, so it would give you a spot-on reading when you placed it under someone’s tongue for ...