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14 months old keeps getting high temperatures!

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surreygirl1987 · 22/12/2019 15:13

Hello, just wondering if anyone had experienced this with their toddler?

My son is 14 months old. For the last two or three months he keeps on getting high temperatures. He is at nursery 3 days a week and they keep ringing us saying his temperature has gone up again (usually in the afternoon) and asking us for permission to give him Calpol. We call the docs, they ask us to bring him in, they check him over and say he seems fine but maybe his ear or throat is a little bit pink, they um and ah about antibiotics and eventually decide to prescribe antimoxilin, and send us away and say if the temp doesn't improve in the next day or two to give him antibiotics. So thats what we do. Then he gets better... then a week or two after the course of antibiotics ends we have the exact same thing happen! We've had this three times now over the past 2 or 3 months. When he has a fever his temperature ranges from 38.4 to 40 degrees. Sometimes he is grizzly and coldy with it; other times (like today) he is in high spirits and your never know he had a temperature without feeling how hot he is!

I'm posting now because yet again, today, my son has a temperature, albeit only 38.6 which isn't as high as he sometimes gets. He only got over another fever a week and a half ago. We've given him Calpol. He seems happy enough; it's just that I noticed he felt really hot to the touch so used a thermometer.

Should I be worried about the recurrent high temperatures? Docs don't seem massively concerned but it's making me a little uneasy. Why does he keep getting temperatures? Can it really just be bug after bug he's getting from nursery? Is this normal??

Thanks in advance!

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Quartz2208 · 22/12/2019 15:19

I would get a doctors appt to discuss it could be something like recurrent fevers or a recurrent infection that isn’t being cured

surreygirl1987 · 22/12/2019 15:42

Thanks. I did raise it with a GP two weeks ago when we were last there but he didn't seem concerned and just said it's probably because he's in nursery... not sure what to think.

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JustLikeJasper · 22/12/2019 15:48

My 16 month old is exactly the same although he goes to nursery 5 days a week. Been off all last week including 2 trips to hospital because his temp was over 40 a simple cough turned into bronchitis. Been on amoxicillin about 5 times now. I don't have the answers but i can sympathise it's horrible seeing them so unwell

MiniMaxi · 22/12/2019 16:00

Hmm well we had recurrent illness too, especially DS’s first winter in nursery. We were told that around 20 illnesses a year is totally normal early on - which is effectively something every fortnight on average (except less in summer and more in winter). So it could just be bug after bug. However if you’re concerned no harm in asking for a referral. Hope things improve soon!

surreygirl1987 · 22/12/2019 16:13

Ah this is very reassuring! So it could just be normal! Many thanks! I guess the problem is I don't know whether I should be concerned or not, ad he's my first! Thanks very much!

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Trying2310 · 22/12/2019 16:37

Getting loads of viruses in first year is really common. However, my ds had recurring temperatures and illnesses when he was 2. Nursery phoning every week. GP quite dismissive despite numerous trips to doctors. We went private and tests showed he had underlying bacterial infection that took nearly a month of two rounds of strong antibiotics to clear. He has been fit as a fiddle ever since.

surreygirl1987 · 22/12/2019 18:41

Oh crikey. Glad your little boy is okay now! I don't suppose you know exactly what he had, or the test that highlighted this? I'm not going to be an alarmist as it sounds like there's every chance this is normal and he's just been unlucky... but the fact that the nursery have been commenting on it, concerned, makes me wonder why the other babies in his room don't seem to have the same high temperatures so frequently. I guess I'll keep an eye on it and if this pattern persists for another month or so, I'll try and get him seen again. Thanks!

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Quartz2208 · 22/12/2019 18:56

What would concern me is that he doesn’t improve until the antibiotics and then the same again which for me could indicate an underlying bacterial infection amo isn’t clearing

yellowallpaper · 22/12/2019 19:06

It's normal when they start nursery. Antibiotics do nothing as it's one bastard virus after another and you will probably have a snotty, coughy, vomiting toddler for about a year. It's souls destroying but comfort yourself with the fact he's building a good immune system!

surreygirl1987 · 22/12/2019 22:05

Yeh, i am really hoping it will be good for him in the long run. He's hardly a frail little thing- he's always been 98th percentile height and weight so I've never really worried about colds and things but this just has be a little unsettled.

I was going to say he hadn't just started nursery... he's been going since August! Then I saw your bit about exacting it for a year. Yikes!!! Well we have baby number 2 due in July so maybe he'll be all sorted out by the time he/she arrives.

@Quartz2208 thanks... yea that worries me a little too. But maybe we don't give the fever long enough to run its course each time before we cave and accept the doctor's offer of antibiotics? I don't know. On one occasion he had a fever for around 5 days before we gave him antibiotics. I don't know if that makes me a terrible parent but I was getting worried about how frequently he was taking antibiotics. Will see how he is tomorrow anyway...

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surreygirl1987 · 22/12/2019 22:06

Thanks for all your help

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Quartz2208 · 22/12/2019 22:23

DS has it in the end a throat swab and some heavy duty antibiotics made him feel 100% better

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