Customer Reviews

Summer Infant Digital Ear Thermometer Set

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We bought this thermometer before our daughter was born in hopes to never use it. I know silly parents. Well, she came down with her first cold/bug and we needed it. The thermometer did not perform very well. We must have tried to get a reading 10 times and few readings were the same. A sick child does not want their temp. taken numerous times at once and does not want their ears to be tugged on. I do not recommend this product and will be returning ours today.

I purchased this thermometor for our first child, and have used it several times (tested first on myself). I find it is almost always within a degree of the oral temperature (and ear thermometors will ALWAYS read about a degree lower than oral). I am a registered nurse, and have used them a lot in my career; this helped me with technique. It's important to gently tug the ear lobe down and turn the probe for a snug fit into the canal opening. If you are unsure of your technique, be sure to bring it to your pediatrician so they can teach you. I find this product to have very accurate readings when used properly. I am completely satisified with it's performance!

Received this for my impending son as a baby shower gift. My 11 year old daughter was sick with the flu so I decided to get it out and give it a try. I tried over and over with the same disappointing results. The thermometer was always 2 degrees too low. She didn't like having her ear tugged on so I can imagine how a infant will react especially when sick. I would not recommend this product and will be taking it back.

This thermomether is horrible. I never once got the same reading twice and the majority of the time my daughers temp. was 95.3. and mine was never over 96.1. Hmmmm something is wrong. It is very inaccurate and very dangerous. I recently purchaed the Braun thermoscan and I get a consistant reading and it is alway 98.4.

I registered for this "deluxe kit" and was disappointed to discover 1. the ear thermometer was frighteningly inconsistent in its reading, 2. the oral/rectal thermometer (and who in their right mind would use the same thermometer for both?!) did not work at all. Either the irreplacable battery was dead or it was broken to begin with. Either way I returned it and bought the Braun Thermoscan, which although we have not used it yet, looks much better made than the cheap plastic Summer Infant kit.

We bought this thermometer before our daughter was born. Well, since we've had it, it's never correct. We can also measure her temp 3 times in 30 seconds and get three different temps that vary by 2-3 degrees! We've checked it on ourselves and used a standard basal body temperature thermometer as a comparision and it's ALWAYS at least 5 degrees low! Don't buy this one. It's horrible!

I received this set for a shower gift and have been unhappy with it. It's not worth $29.99 thats for sure. The darn oral/rectal thermometer didn't even work. After reading the other reviews of this, I see I am not the only one who had trouble with it. I have had it open for a few months now, before I ever had to use it, so it's too late to take back or else I would.
As for the ear thermometer, it has given me fairly consistent temps. The only things I do not like about it is that it came with probe covers that you have to replace. 5 years from now when I still have the thermometer they may not be making the probe covers as replacements. Summary...it's on OK ear thermomter, but not great. The smaller one is a big joke, make sure to have another one as back up.

I got the thermometer as a shower gift. It is completely unreliable. Sometimes the temperature would say 60 degrees then 2 seconds later it would say 106 degrees. Luckily Babies R Us took it back with no problem.

This was one of the first things I registered for. I was so excited to get one of these thinking it would help during those rough nights and give me a quick and accurate reading. But I was COMPLETELY disappointed. My son has had 4 ear infections within the last 10 weeks and not once did it give me a reading over 94 degrees. I have even changed the battery thinking that was the cause of this. The first time I used it I got a great reading. But that was the one and only time. Last night when he was sick again and were were struggling to get him to calm down I was once again disappointed with a reading of 93 degrees. I am throwing it away and have started to research another brand on line to get reviews before I buy another one.

Our doctor recommended a more accurate reading that you get from a standard thermometer.