Kinsa Smart,Fever, Digital Medical Baby, Kid and Adult Termometro - Accurate, Fast, FDA Cleared Thermometer for Oral, Armpit or Rectal Temperature Reading - QuickCare

PEDIATRICIAN RECOMMENDATIONS:- NEVER BUY TYMPANIC, FOREHEAD, TEMPORAL ARTERY, etc. thermometers (Even Kinsa's!). They can be 3 degrees off.- ALWAYS BUY ORAL/RECTAL thermometers for accuracy. BUY THIS ONE. It's awesome. Some Chinese off-brands may not be accurate.- You can take underarm temps for a "ballpark" number, but for an accurate number, take rectal for kids under 3, oral over 3I am a pediatrician, and I just had my first child. He developed a fever but I didn't know how high. I almost bought a $260-300+ Welch-Allyn SureTemp Plus 692 (it's what I use at my office), but with an infant, I would mostly take rectal temps. I knew the SureTemp takes 4-6 second oral readings, but I did NOT know rectal readings took 10 seconds! So I decided to try this for LESS than 1/10th the price. And am I glad I did!!!I just received my Kinsa QuickCare Smart Digital Thermometer yesterday (a bit late, my son's fever had passed), and I am VERY impressed. Setup is VERY EASY considering there's an app to set up rather than simply taking temps. The app recognized the thermometer right away, sync'ed super fast. Readings happen VERY FAST. It starts showing temperature readings within 1 second, though it takes a few seconds to get a final reading. It feels like 3-4 seconds.The Kinsa QuickCare feels solid and the tip is surprisingly flexible. The silicone rubber shell feels like quality, not plasticky. The app is also very intuitive, allowing you to keep a record of temps taken as well as other symptoms, and allows multiple profiles so you can keep straight who started with what symptom when. It also offers the ability to move temp readings from one profile to another (in case you forgot to switch profiles before taking the next temperature).The app is handy for keeping track of common cold and stomach bug symptoms. Your pediatrician will be so impressed you know EXACTLY when your child's cough and fever started, when it stopped, etc! I know I would!FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS:- DON'T cheap out and buy the $8 Chinese off-brand; they may not be accurate and will crap out on you quickly. Buy this one!- DON'T spend more on "instant read" tympanic, temporal artery, and forehead thermometers; you will get LESS ACCURATE readings

This is the very best thermometer that any parent could ever wish for. It is quick (8 seconds), efficient, fun (it shows a little stuffed elephant during the 8 seconds) and it is so much more than a thermometer. Besides saving your child’s temp, you can also add all their symptoms from a list that is provided for you. This list will help you determine if your child has a cold or the flu. And it will recommend if your child needs to see a doctor or if their cold/flu just needs to run its course. It’s Great for children and adults alike. I highly recommend it for everyone.

This was one of those "I'll try it" kind of purchases. It's a thermometer, and it's very accurate and fast. The mobile app (iOS in my case) is what makes this 5 stars. It is so easy to take a measurement, even for a sick child. The app entertains them for the few seconds it takes to measure their temperature. It records the temperature in the child's profile in the app (giving you an accurate history without having to find a pad and pencil to write it down). And, you can add the medicines you have given the child right alongside the temperature readings. This is amazing when you have 2 parents each having to get up overnight with a sick child (now, when did my wife give him Children's Motrin...??). Surprising that something so little has much such a positive impact in treating our kids when they are ill.

So easy to use. Our 3 year old loves the smiley face or frowns face depending on the temp. App works great to track temps as well.

This is a good product. I am replacing an older unit that has failed. This one, however had a dead battery. Need to replace the battery before I can determine if it works as promised.

Works great

I was reluctant to switch from my Kinsa Smartstick to the Kinsa QuickCare, but I had no choice. Kinda forced me to switch to the Kinsa QuickCare because they don't support my phone's OS for the Smartstick. So I switched to the Kinsa QuickCare. WORST DECISION EVER!! I absolutely hate the Kinsa QuickCare. After syncing it to my phone I decided to take my daughter's normal temperature. Her normal temperature taken with the Kinsa QuickCare set for an oral temperature, without having anything to eat or drink for at least 30 minutes before, showed as 99.4 F. Ok, maybe it's just a glitch. Took her temperature again. 99.2 F. Manual thermometer, 98.7, which is her normal temperature. Ok, maybe it needs to be recalibrated. Recalibrate the Kinsa QuickCare. Take her temp. again, 99.4 F. Seriously?! Good luck getting ahold of customer care, and if you email them a question you either don't get an answer, or you get an answer that has nothing to do with what you asked. Did I mention that it doesn't auto connect to the Bluetooth on my phone like it's supposed too? How about that I had my Bluetooth forget the Kinsa so I could resync it, and everyone I try to resync it, my phone tells me something like Sync unsuccessful, Kinsa refused connection. So now my Kinsa will no longer connect to my phone. There is only very vague troubleshooting help. It basically says follow the prompts, ok, but the POS, doesn't have any prompts......soooooooooooo.Did I mention that I can't even sync my saved data from the Smartstick account to the QuickCare? Yeah, so started a completely new history. Fails all over the board. We now us a manual thermometer and a notebook to keep track of everything. Thanks for nothing Kinsa!

I have used the Kinsa thermometer for years. I like that it lets me know about illness in my area. I highly recommend it as it's fast and accurate.