Ds has a temperature but shivering and feels cold.

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Ds, 4yrs, has a temp of 38.9, so not too high but this is after giving calpol, he felt hotter before but I hadn't taken his temp then.

However he is shivering and feeling cold, I'm not sure whether to wrap him up or try to cool him down?

I think he may have been out in the sun at school too much, I applied sunscreen this morning and he wore a sunhat but he fell asleep as soon as he came in from school and refused to eat, says he was outside all day at school.

Thank you for any advice.

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Sorry your DS is poorly.

The way the body gets a high temperature is to shiver and make the person feel that they are cold - it's like a faulty thermostat. In the same way when the calpol kicks in he will probably sweat and feel too hot as his temp comes down.

Don't wrap him up but don't try to cool him either as actually cool flannels etc just make the outer blood vessels constrict which keeps the heat in even more. Really try and push fluids as much as you can, and if he is ok with children's nurofen you could try a dose of that.

It's hard to know whether it is the sun, probably more likely he is coming down with a virus - either way drink drink drink. Hope he is better soon.

Thank you, he's fast asleep in bed now so hopefully the rest will do him good, fingers crossed he wakes up feeling a bit better rather than worse.

Could well be sunstroke. Perhaps he wasn't actually wearing his hat all day. When I had it it made me fell nauseous and very shivery and gave me a high temperature but this only lasted about 6 hours. Hope he's recovered ok.

After a 2 hr wait at the medical practice in which time he went from a ridiculously hot crying in pain hardly moving wreck to looking like he was the healthiest child that ever lived by the time we got to see the GP, turns out it was just a throat infection, so nothing to do with the sun after all. Thanks for the advice .