What do they DO when you go to A&E for high temp though?
are you getting any treatment or are you going for reassurance it’s not sepsis?
as if you call for medical advice and list symptoms that hit a check list you’ll be told to go to A&E.
has your child ever actually had any life saving treatment when there?
if not it sounds like you need to learn your child’s illness patterns better and trust yourself to nurse them through diagnosed viruses etc and go less.
why would a standard childhood illness or virus suddenly turn into sepsis?
ivd got two DC under 10 and have never taken either to A&E.
the older one was often ill until aged about 4. Some hardcore viruses like bronchiolitius where she had a temperature that spike over 40 overnight 3 nights in a row. And was off nursery for nearly 2 weeks.
but she runs hot when ill. The fever is the bodies way of fighting the infection. She was drinking fine (and in fact still breast feeding then aged 2.5) so I knew she was hydrated.
i don’t give a lot of paracetamol and very rarely ibuprofen (that’s the one that can be risky if it’s chicken pox).
i give them paracetamol only if their temp spikes over 40. DC1 would sometimes read 41 in one ear. Usually paracetamol would bring it down to under 40 but not to normal.
id watch over them, wipe them with a damp cloth, ride it out until it broke itself. Work was still crap as I barely sleep when they were ill but at least we were at home not spending hours and hours waiting to have it confirmed it’s a standard childhood illness.
Trust yourself more. Ask yourself if you are seriously worried about them. Step away from check lists that send you there to wait for hours to be reassured making you both feel worse!
if you are waiting for hours on arrival clearly your child isn’t that ill. You’re waiting behind all the more urgent cases that are 🤷🏻♀️