One of my twins (2.5) has been having random high temperatures with no other symptoms for 10 days now. It was at its worst Friday - Monday. They’ve become much less frequent - had one Friday morning, Saturday morning, then one in the middle of the night last night but it was only 38.2 and it came down quickly.
He hasn’t had any other symptoms at all and apparently lots of the kids at his nursery have the same thing going on.
Took him to nursery this morning as normal as he was absolutely fine. Got a call from them at 11am sounding very worried saying he had a temp of 40.4 - I rushed over there (only took 10 mins to get there) and it had already come down but he was very sleepy so I brought him home. He’s been fine since, no more temps, ate lunch and had a nap.
The staff at nursery said that children should go to hospital if they have a temp over 40 - I looked on the NHS site earlier this week as I was worried and it doesn’t give any cut offs like this. He didn’t have any of the other symptoms they list to be concerned about. I was considering taking him to the GP on Friday but it seemed to be improving by then. They called me this afternoon and asked if I’d taken him to hospital - I said I didn’t think it was necessary as he was absolutely fine by the time we left nursery.
Obviously I will take him to the GP in the morning (couldn’t get an appointment today by the time I picked him up) or seek help sooner if he deteriorates, but AIBU to think a child doesn’t need to go to hospital for a high temp alone, especially when it comes down on its own quite quickly? I don’t want to take any risks but I don’t want to overreact either.