A couple of days ago my 9 month old seemed a little off and spiked a temperature of 39.2, calpol was only keeping it around the 39 mark. Called 111 who said to take her to a&e. Got there and it had risen to 40.1.
They checked her over, everything was fine although her throat was a little red but nothing that should make it spike like that. Took a blood sample and gave her iv antibiotics whilst we awaited the results. Her temp dropped and she perked up almost immediately.
Bloods came back and the docs words were “there is nothing there concerning, we think she has tonsillitis. We are going to send you home with antibiotics but if her temperature isn’t under control after two days, come back.”
Her temperature is now under control, probably too low if anything at 35, so I can’t give anymore calpol or ibuprofen.
But she still just isn’t right. She won’t play, she just sits there having a cuddle and randomly she cries out. She throws herself around and might settle in an awkward position for a bit before crying again. I probably managed to get her on the floor playing 3 times in the whole day for about a minute each time before the crying started again.
I wasn’t sure if she was just over tired last night so thought I’ll put her to bed and see in the morning. She just woke up for a feed and it’s taken me an hour to get her back to sleep as she was just crying and throwing herself around like she doesn’t know what she wants.
She’s had 3 full days of antibiotics (as apparently the iv antibiotics count as a full day) and am wondering what to do if she is the same in the morning. I don’t know if I’m over reacting and need to give the antibiotics longer to work, or if I’m under reacting and should be taking her back.