DD 2.8 fever for no good reason - drs?

[squigglywig]

Hi,

Will try not to be rambly...

Last week DD got a cut on her knee, it got infected, she got antibiotic cream but not course. Knee seems fine now, no redness, heat, yuckness and she is using it as normal.

Saturday (24hrs after the antibiotic cream bandage thing was taken off) she got a fever of about 40 (not unusually high for her).

Have been giving paracetamol and ibuprofen when she's seemed to need it - not just for the fever, but when she's seemed uncomfortable.

She is drinking plenty. Going to the toilet as normal. Not eating much, but will nibble if nagged.

No D&V. Says no pain, and would normally show me. Not molars. No cough or cold.

She is tired and cuddly but not "sick" and still up and about not wanting to put clothes on

Do I take her to the GP or let it run it's course?

Anyone got any ideas?

my experience of high fever and no obvious symptoms were:

ear infections
urine infection
bronchiolitis

if no better then go to GP and rule out other things - probably a virus though!

Thanks. We went to A&E (GP wouldn't see her as against policy ) in the end. Doc was lovely. Said it was probably a virus and that DD has small blisters in her mouth which are consistent with the virus theory (I have no idea here) but that we were to go back on Friday if there was still significant fever.

Hopefully it'll go over of it's own accord.

ds (8) had something very similar last week with sore mouth and fever and just generally under the weather, so there is something like that going round. btw ds got given antibiotics because his mouth was really bad (crying at night) and got infected so keep an eye

Could it be hand, foot and mouth? Could explain both fever and bisters. It's quite common in young children and nothing to worry about if so. Hope she's feeling better soon.

She does seem to be in a lot of pain with it, despite paracetamol and ibuprofen. Not all the time, mostly she is playing but just not very boisterously. But every now and then there is a spontaneous howl like something has really hurt her and I cannot for the life of me figure out what.

Will keep a close eye, keep giving her iced juice and take her back on Friday if no better?