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A has fever again. She had been well since the last fever bout, spent the morning with family and she started to say she was tired. When we got home after lunch, she complained "Mama I got fever", took her temp and true enough, it was 37.4C. She said she wanted to sleep so I stuck on the smarttemp before sending her to bed. Looks like her fever went up hitting the 38.5C threshold twice (alarm sounded) and now coming down. I love how I can monitor her temp without disturbing her much needed rest n sleep. Just check the smarttemp app on my phone is such a breeze versus using an in-ear or armpit thermometer which would definitely wake her up. Get well soon my dear girl! 💪🏼


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