2 year old with high temperature and nothing else?

[sleepy78]

My dd has had a fever since Saturday lunchtime which has gone up and down despite paracetamol (39 at the highest, 36, as normal, from time to time). Tonight, it's 39 again. But she has absolutely no other symptoms, is eating well and seems ok in herself, apart from being very tired. She has also asked to drink a lot today.
The books I've looked at seem to say that as long as they are active, not to worry but I'm panicking anyway.
Can anyone put my mind at rest before I go to the doctors tomorrow?

My 16 mth old has had something similar lasting about 3 days recently.
Taken to GP and everything checked. Just a virus.
We found neurofen was better at alleivating temperature. Cahlpol makes her hyper.
Seems better now and we are getting some sleep at nighttime again!
Hope your dd is better soon.

My DS has this every so often with greater and lesser degrees of clinginess/mopiness sometimes too.

Last weekend he seemed to be running a high temperature and very tired but nothing else. We dosed him up with baby paracetomol/ibuprofen and he is fine now.
TBH, I would have been happy enough not to dose him but OH got anxious about febrile convulsions (he has never had them but OH's nephew had one a couple of months back) so we went with the drugs!

Hope your dd will be normal temeprature again soon!

Thanks so much for your answers - I am generally a lurker and this is the first time I've started a thread and I was a bit scared
needalife - it's so funny you said that about being hyper - she just spent 5 minutes running up and down the landing and jumping on her bed!
Now I just have to work out if she can go to creche tomorrow or not....

Same as needalife, my two had this last week. Nurofen worked. Lasted two days for DC2 and three days for DC1.

Sleepy I had two days off with dd.
don't think employers were very impressed.
Takes about 2 hours to calm her down after Calpol. Trying to climb onto windowsill while co sleeping and lavishing me with loads of affection. I can laugh now but at 3am was not amused!
Have now bought plain paracetomol. Calpol in bin!

Sounds like it's going round then. I'm in France in fact but I'm sure the same germs travel around! pictures little germs travelling happily on the eurostar :o
Thanks for putting my mind at rest!

needalife - sorry but picturing you with a hyperactive little one at 3am made me laugh out loud! Don't think I'll be laughing when that's me tonight...
I think I might have to have tomorrow off.. it's the first time I've had to ask so we'll see what they say at work.

Could be a UTI - fever goes up and down with that. Might be worth taking a urine sample to the doctors.

That's interesting jeee - I hadn't thought of that at all.

i have posted a thread similar to this. we also tried calpol as usually go for nurofen, it sent my dd 7, completely loopy, didnt know where or who she was, just kept laughing affectionately at me and hugging me, also talking a load of nonsense. like you i wasnt that impressed at midnight, but have laughed about it today.

DS (22 months) had this a couple of weeks ago (in Belgium). 4 days with temp ranging from normal (37.4) up to 39.5 plus. But he was happy, eating, drinking and generally seemed on top form. Temp stabilised after a few days.

Thanks Nichynoo - I had just started having another mini panic after looking at the internet that it was a UTI and trying to work out how I was going to get a sterile pee sample tomorrow...Maybe I won't have to. I'll see what the doctor says.

Yes I'd rule out a uti but otherwise both my two have just had this - came and went within 3 days.

Hi, Just a little update - the doctor said it was probably just a virus. She said it probably isn't a UTI because she is ok in herself and if she had one she would feel poorly. Thanks for all your reassurance!
Now I have another worry though (sorry, I know I'm a wet lettuce) - she saw the creche doctor today, by coincidence, and apparently she has gone from 11.7 kg last month to 11.2 kg today. I'm sure she was still 11.7kg when she was playing on the scales the other day. Could she have lost weight like that just because she had this virus?

She's very active so maybe it's just that?

Sorry if it's a stupid question...

My ds was diagnosed with tonsillitis yesterday at A&E. He was also weighed, and I found he now weighs less than he did 4 months ago at his 12-month check. I too had not noticed anything wrong with him apart from a very high temperature (rang NHS Direct on Friday and treated with Calpol) and a huge attack of clinginess, but once the diagnosis came in the penny dropped on other things. Because although he was still running around and playing a lot, he had been taking longer sleeps, refusing his food at mealtimes for about a week, and that constantly dribbling nose we thought was due to the fact his premolars came through this week...

I hadn't noticed him coughing particularly, but it turned out his throat was very inflamed on examination. The trigger for taking him to A&E was that he'd just developed a rash.

Did the GP check his tonsils?