If you experience a rare but serious side effects, stop taking meropenem and seek emergency medical attention or contact your doctor immediately: 1  allergic reaction (difficulty breathing; closing of the throat; swelling of the lips, tongue, or face; or hives) 2  seizures; 3  severe or watery diarrhea;  a skin rash;
You can take a temperature using the mouth (oral), anus (rectal), armpit (axillary), or ear (tympanic). But the temperature readings vary depending on which one you use, and you need an accurate body temperature to determine if a fever is present.Medical research hasn't determined an exact correlation between oral, rectal, ear, armpit, and forehead temperature measurements.
If you measure your own temperature at different parts of the body, say in your mouth and under your arms, youâll notice that the temperatures are different. The general rule is that the thinner a body part is, the less contact it has with the outside environment, and therefore the higher temperature youâll observe.owever, not all fluctuations of our body temperature fall under the control of blood vessels. For example, you are likely to have a higher temperature right after a 100-meter sprint than when you are fast asleep.