Frequent fevers

[Lovelilies]

Anyone have any idea about this? DD2 (20m) has been having temperatures about twice a week lasting 24-48 hours since before Christmas.
Latest is tonight, 40.3! She's otherwise pretty well, eating and drinking well, playing normally after calpol or brufen start to work. She's snotty and drooly, but that's nothing new.
Can she be having this many 'viruses'?!

40.3? Are you sure- that’s pretty high. How is she?

Definitely. Yup. 38.6 yesterday teatime, 40 at 4am today, 38 during the day and this 40.3 just now. Mines 36.4. She's been eating well, playing etc once brufen/calpol kicks in

@lovelillies
My DS was like this between september and Christmas.

He had numerous infections-3/4 bouts of tonsillitis, hand foot and mouth, croup, bronchiolitis, an ear infection, a couple of colds, two stomach bugs ....

He was literally ill the entire time- and his temp regularly went up to 40+. I started to get very concerned about how much calpol and ibuprofen he was taking- not to mention the antibiotics.

IME fevers that high tend to come with "proper infection" rather than colds... I'd take her to get checked out.

She's just gone to sleep now. It's come down to 38.8 (briefness at 7.30 pm)

Watching with interest, as my 2.5 year old is having similar. So far blood tests show nothing out of the ordinary, but GP is a bit concerned, as she looks peaky and has lost weight.

OP does your little one always have a cold or other bug when this happens?

Is she acting unwell so you take her temperature or are you just randomly checking her temperature and noticing it is high. I think of you go looking for these things you will find them.

I'm a nurse (if that's relevant- it's always different when it's your own kids!) and if it was a patient we'd all be doing blood cultures and all sorts!

I did take to A&E the first time, before Christmas, she was having rigors and had mottled cold hands and feet but they were absolutely shit (didn't even give her any meds and she was scoring 12 on the PAW score!) once they eventually did give her some brufen her temp came down and I took her home. They said a virus.

Only take her temp when she's acting unwell (clingy, crying etc) or mostly waking in the night and feels very hot to touch

I'd ask GP for referral to peads. That doesn't sound right and they are 'high' fevers iyswim?

I'm taking it as a nurse you've heard of periodic fever syndrome?

Ds used to be like this. Highlight was when he was 18mths. 2am I was on the phone to 111 for advice because his temp was 40.4. The reason I was on the phone rather than at a&e was because he was playing peek a boo and giggling like a loon with his dad while I was stressing. Went to the go the following day and he had nothing more than a bad cold. We've learned that a change in the wind throws his temp sky high. I go by forehead kisses and his temperament otherwise.

I haven't youare, I work in surgery and gynae.
I'll get a GP appointment next week though, it's dragging on a little too long for my liking.
To the PPs whose children have had this, are they ok now?

It's not very well known I don't think. Certainly not something you'd come across in gynae - it's more a peads area.

My ds (now 9) would react to almost any infection with a very high temp. Often we wouldn't even find out what had caused it, he might have temps of 38/39/40 for 2 days but develop no symptoms at all & then temp would return to normal. It was probably worst when he first started nursery, so aged 12-36 months.

We had him to a paediatrician who wasn't that concerned and just asked me to keep a diary, and eventually he seems to have grown out of reacting like this most of the time. In fact, he has a cold this week and I am really pleased his temperature is only 37/38...

We recently saw a paed for something unrelated and mentioned it and she said some kids react like this, but do grow out of it. Hope it's the same for yours

Ds is now nearly 6 and has pretty much grown out of the random spikes. He does generally run hot though, when he was smaller, his normal temp would be closer 37.5 than 36.5 and I don't think he's ever felt cold (it was 3 degrees out today and he was wandering around the house in bare feet, T-shirt and trackies - I drew the line at shorts). He had a spike at Christmas which was tonsillitis so he seems to have grown into more normal bodily reactions.

My boy has been known to have a fever at the drop of a hat!
It will go really high and we give Calpol or Nurofen and it goes down and stays down.
I even remember nursery having to do it one morning as it spiked. Came down and they were shocked when it didn’t spike again and lasted all day.

He is a lot better now at 3 although we have our 3rd temp in 10 days and i suspect i’ll Be phoning 111 when he wakes if not better (had scarlet fever so over cautious)

With my DS he was definitely quick to have a temperature and quite a high one when he wasn’t particularly poorly.