Which of the following patients can safely have their temperature taken by the rectal route?

A) 60-year-old male after cardiac bypass surgery
B) 2-day-old newborn with physiological jaundice
C) 3-year-old child with croup
D) 20-year-old female with rectal bleeding


C

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