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DS9 developed sudden high temp and chills - but not been anywhere

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Slipjigger · 01/05/2020 09:59

Posting here for traffic. My DS just gone 9 developed a sudden temp yesterday. He was absolutely fine all day, we were baking buns, put them into the oven and he went into the sitting room. Less than a minute later my other DS called me in to say DS9 wasn't feeling well. I went in and he was on the couch shaking with a temp of 39 degrees. It was that sudden, no complaints all day.
I gave him calpol (4pm), he improved a bit but started the shakes again at 8pm with temp of 39 again. I gave him more calpol and he improved, went to bed and was asleep very quickly. He had a good night, slight temp this morning 37.7 and no temp now and says he feels fine.
He hasn't been anywhere in the last 7 weeks, no shops, no ones house, etc. Myself and DH are working from home with a few hours one day a week in the office but taking loads of precautions. All shopping gets washed before anyone touches it.
Its very strange. If he was in school I would say he picked up a virus. All the rest of us are fine.
Just wondering really if anyone else experienced this.
Both my boys get viral induced wheeze and need inhalers so I am nervous about them.

OP posts:
eleventy3isthemagicnumber · 01/05/2020 10:00

Are you going to shops? If so it's posdible one of you picked up so.ething there perhaps?

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Slipjigger · 01/05/2020 10:28

Yes both I and DH have been in shops, he does the full shop once a week and maybe once a week or once a fortnight I have to get something for my parents.
Neither myself nor Dh have any symptoms or anything though.

OP posts:
Lougle · 01/05/2020 10:32

DD3 suddenly got feverish at 6pm last night. 39.2° an hour after paracetamol. I'm not giving her paracetamol unless she feels uncomfortable.

vanillandhoney · 01/05/2020 10:34

Neither myself nor Dh have any symptoms or anything though.

You don't need to have any symptoms to carry the virus. If you've both been going to work once a week and popping to the shops, there's no reason why you couldn't have picked it up while out.

2beesornot2beesthatisthehoney · 01/05/2020 10:37

lougle surely you give paracetamol depending on temperature not on her behaviour. My Pediatrics consultant SIL told me that it's the very sick children who are quiet and the ones who are on the move and getting a bit naughty etc are the ones who are getting better. Don't let your threee year old be the judge of whether to give paracetamol . Be the parent!

eleventy3isthemagicnumber · 01/05/2020 10:38

Lots of people get covid 19 (and other viruses, I assume) and are asymptomatic.

It's possible you or your DH have had covid 19 or another virus and not even realised, then passed it on to your DS.

It makes sense that the second person in a household has worse symptoms than the person who bright it into the house if they get a higher virus load from close contact.

So, if for example you caught a virus from minimal contact, then your viral load would be low and your body may have been able to fight it effectively. But if you then had close contact with your DC while infectious, your DC could get a larger viral load and worse symptoms as a result.

This is why the second child in a household to go down with chicken pox often has it worse than the first, for example - as they get a bigger dose of the virus from close contact with their sibling.

TeddyIsaHe · 01/05/2020 10:40

It’s better to not give medicine for a fever, unless they’re in pain etc as the fever itself it what gets rid of the illness. Pain relief just masks the fever and can prolong the life of the illness.

Op it’s likely you’ve picked something whilst shopping. You can be a carrier without getting any symptoms.

CornishPorsche · 01/05/2020 10:41

My cousin's boyfriend has had super high temperatures, fitting, collapsing etc but has tested negative for Covid twice this week. They (hospital) don't currently know what it is.

You can also be a carrier and not symptomatic.

Even being outdoors and touching surfaces seems to be a potential mode of transmission. Handrails, throwing a ball back to someone, patting dogs etc are all possibilities.

Have you looked to see whether you can get tested under the new regime?

newhousestress · 01/05/2020 10:44

You don't have to have gone out to get an infection though. If he had appendicitis or a urine infection or cellulitis from a cut he could get a fever, he's not 'caught' that from anywhere it's come from his own system. Not saying he has but an example.

EnidAlexandraRollins · 01/05/2020 10:44

I have felt absolutely HORRENDOUS with a sky high temperature (40.1 on Wednesday) and terrible sore throat for the last 2 nights and then completely fine both mornings. None of us have been out of the house for 3 weeks now but we have had deliveries. Strange but just assume it is a random virus.

incognitomum · 01/05/2020 11:05

Scary how infectious it is.

Poing · 01/05/2020 11:16

2beesornot2beesthatisthehoney There is a solid reason for not giving paracetamol for fever. Fever stimulates the immune response and anti-pyretics (eg: paracetamol) dampens it. If a child is active and otherwise happy, it is not recommended to give paracetamol. If a child is not, then make them comfortable with an anti-pyretic.

Lougle · 01/05/2020 11:26

Don't let your threee year old be the judge of whether to give paracetamol . Be the parent!

She's 11. She's my 3rd daughter, hence DD3. It's not necessary to treat a fever just to bring it down, unless it's causing other symptoms. So, if a child was having a febrile convulsion, you'd give paracetamol. If she's uncomfortable or feeling unwell, give paracetamol. She's not feeling particularly unwell, so it's better to let the fever do its job.

I am the parent, I'm being the parent. I'm also a nurse, so I'm using my judgement that she's not uncomfortable, so no paracetamol required.

Lougle · 01/05/2020 11:27

@EnidAlexandraRollins fevers tend to be worse in the evening. I hope you feel better soon.

EnidAlexandraRollins · 01/05/2020 11:32

Thank you Lougle! The difference between evening and morning is ridiculous - there's nothing wrong with me this morning but felt like death last night!

ememem84 · 01/05/2020 11:34

Dd (9m) had a high temp and a rash on Tuesday. She’d been a bit off on Monday but assumed teething. Video consultation with dr who referred to hospital. Hospital said just a random virus. By the time we’d got to hospital and were seen the rash had gone.

I’m not feeling 100% myself today so assume it’s the same random virus.

Dd has today cut one top front tooth and I can see the ones on either side of it almost there. So this coupled with a random virus would explain her irritability.

haba · 01/05/2020 11:41

I would also say that some children are unwell when cutting adult teeth- does he have teeth coming through?
I had forgotten until my youngest was ill with his adult teeth that I had also had temperature, pain, upset stomachs with each of my adult teeth too, 35 years earlier.

Bringringbring12 · 01/05/2020 11:43

Ring your surgery and ask the a telephone app

Skigal86 · 01/05/2020 11:44

I was very ill with a high temp, awful dry cough and the worst sore throat I’ve ever had at the beginning of Feb, as well as other corona like symptoms, obviously I had been out and about prior to it, but that came out of nowhere, I’d been out for lunch with my mum, dropped her off and gone home, feeling fine, and about tea time I sent her a message saying “I’m really sorry if I’ve given you the plague, I’m really not very well”. It just hit me like a ton of bricks, it was quite scary how quickly it came on, I didn’t get out of bed for the next two days, and the cough and sore throat lingered for another 2-3 weeks.

Bringringbring12 · 01/05/2020 11:46

DD3 suddenly got feverish at 6pm last night. 39.2° an hour after paracetamol. I'm not giving her paracetamol unless she feels uncomfortable.

Why not? Feeling feverish is unpleasant and so easily could be eased

Bringringbring12 · 01/05/2020 11:49

@Skigal86

I don’t get your point
Behind of Feb - no lockdown
You were fully out and about and leading normal life
We didn’t know it but corona was spreading. So it didn’t come out of now where. The op is baffled that her son has been in lockdown and developed these symptoms

LittleLeaps · 01/05/2020 11:59

Just before lockdown I suddenly got a very high temperature, chills, lethargic and a killer sore throat, it all came on very suddenly within the space of about 10 minutes. I felt better the next day, still very achey and the sore throat lasted about 5 days. No clue what it was, but we had all been isolating anyway because my daughters both had chicken pox, I think my partner must have brought it home with him but he had no symptoms and neither did my daughters.

Lougle · 01/05/2020 12:00

@Bringringbring12 there is quite a lot of guidance that fever is the body's way of fighting illness. Paracetamol suppresses that mechanism. NHS guidance for children is 'give them paracetamol if they're distressed or unwell'. DD3 is 11, which is old enough to tell me if she's feeling ill. Right now, she's not feeling unwell, just a bit hot. So she doesn't need paracetamol. If she feels unwell later, I'll give her paracetamol.

Fluffybutter · 01/05/2020 12:03

My dd9 was really ill for 24 hours a couple of weeks ago .
Was strange as she had temp and was vomiting but then next day fine .
None of us have been out as we get shopping delivered and follow all normal hygiene protocols .
None of us were ill either

Bringringbring12 · 01/05/2020 12:12

When my children are feverish - they feel ill, certainly at 39.2 and I do too. Hence I’d give paracetamol without hesitation
However if my daughter was not feeling ill at all despite feverishness, then no I wouldn’t give.

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