How many fevers/viruses do your children get in a year?

[heyjoeyitsestelle]

My son is 1 and was hospitalised in January with a severe blood infection and endocarditis. He spent a month in hospital and was on IV antibiotics for 6 weeks. Since January he has had rhinovirus, adenovirus and enterovirus (Hand foot and mouth) all of which caused a high fever.
The first 2 were while he was an inpatient. The second he was discharged and then readmitted with - they were concerned it was his heart again due to his reaction.

So since the beginning of feb he has had an unexplained fever 3 times. First time was for 5 days and then he was fine- probs another virus. Second was for 8 days he was admitted overnight for observation, viral swabs done inc covid19 all negative but his consultant pretty confident it was a virus.
Now this week, another fever this time 4 days. It's stopped now and he's developed a rash so must be yet another virus.
My question is how normal is this?
Obviously the fact that we haven't left the house for 6 weeks bar my husband going shopping (and washing hands before and after etc) hasn't stopped him for picking up something again!
We have an appt in a couple of weeks with infectious diseases and immunology as they wanted to do some tests on the back of his original infection - but it's likely this won't go ahead now and I'm trying not to stress.
How often do your kids pick up viruses that cause fevers for days?
The consultant said most of the time the viruses he's picked up cause nothing more than a snotty nose.

at that age dc were ill constantly it felt like.
a fever or d&v every month.
it got better around 2yo.

@woodencoffeetable
Thanks!
It's mad my daughter is 5 and I reckon she's had a fever maybe 3/times her whole life

I'm not an expert that does sound like a lot of high temperatures though.

Have you raised it with your gp? Could he be run down still from being so ill in January? A month in hospital is a long time so his little body might still be trying to get back to 100% making him more prone to picking up things iyswim

My daughter had PFAPA

Google that and see what you think

She had a fever every 10 days. )here was a very severe case though)

Lasted 18 months. She vomited so many times (because one of her fever symptoms of vomiting. Even now) that her teeth disintegrated.

My DS is 13 months old now but had two early hospitalisations at 2 and 4 months for septicaemia then viral meningitis. He also had about 6-8 other episodes of viral infections in his first 8 months of life- high temp (39-40) was the main symptoms and he’d sometimes vomit.

He was reviewed by a few paediatricians who didn’t say too much in terms of a possible cause, and thought he was a bit unlucky with bugs.

He’s now not had a high temperature since November but has a few other health issues (allergies, reflux, slightly delayed development). We’re still none the wiser as to whether there’s a cause of all his problems but I’m very glad he’s not getting the sky high temperatures all the time.

Drs say he’s a very ‘reactive and inflammatory’ baby.

I’m not sure how helpful all this is but you’re not alone.

Just to add- we were told viral infections can have a resurgence. They thought the viral meningitis might have been a resurgence of the adenovirus he had previously which could explain why he’s having new temps/symptoms without exposure to new infections.

Thanks guys gives me some things to think about. I mean hopefully he's just super unlucky and yeah maybe run down from spending so long in hospital.

It's just so frustrating as every time I stress that's it's serious as last time his only symptom was a fever and I was sent away from A&E with 'it's probably viral' and told to come back in 4 days. I went back in 2 and so lucky I did ☹️

Mine were all different.
Dd1 rarely ill. She had her first (non-injection related) temperature at about 7 months, then didn't have anything else until about 16 months when she had about 3 different things back to back.
Then she had chickenpox at 3yo, scarlet fever at 6yo and bad pneumonia at 8yo and nothing else-she's now 19yo.

Dd2 caught chicken pox from big sister at 6 months. She had a series of viruses aged about a year to 18 months, probably 4 or 5. Then had 2-3 viruses a year which included a very high temperature (40-41 for 3 days was her typical run of an illness) until she was around 8yo, and since then she gets 1-2 a year (aged 16yo)

Ds had his first ear infection at 10 weeks and proceeded to get one (with a temperature) every 10-14 days until he had grommets put in at 20 months.
He then was clear until the grommets fell out and then he (aged 3-3.6yo) had the same set of ear infections every 10-14 days, this time normally with a burst eardrum and temperature until the next set of grommets.
He had chickenpox aged 4yo.
When those came out he was better, so perhaps only one ear infection a month until his next set of grommets at 6.6yo.
For variety he moved onto general viruses with a specialism in tonsillitis, which would also send his temperature up.
At 8yo he got what we think was a post-viral illness which has meant that he picks up viruses very easily and his temperature rushes up. This is normally around every fortnight from December through to March.
He's 12yo now and this year was the first year since aged 8yo that he's been in school more days than missing in January and February. He throws up with a temperature, so ends up missing a lot of school.

He also used to get non-fading rashes which were viral related aged about 10 weeks through to about 6yo. He still gets them occasionally.

4 year old and 15/12 old here. Both had a fever once that I can think of. Both been in full time nursery since 4/5 months old. Eldest been off once for three days and youngest once for two days due to illness. That’s it. Both have constant snotty noses and coughs in the winter but very well with it. I can’t recall having a fever as an adult either. Weird!

My daughter had frequent fevers until she was about 2. Probably monthly fevers.In hospital with Enterovirus and she’s had more courses of antibiotics than I would want. She did go to nursery from age 1 though which exposes them to lots of germs and she has now been diagnosed with asthma age 3 (which we expected due to family history). I think they just get fevers for the slightest think whilst their immune system develops.

Over the past year DD2(6-7years) has had Scarlet fever, a bad d&v illness, and impetigo plus minor colds, stomach bugs etc. Just seemed to be one thing after another. Despite this, she is actually generally healthy (the only bad illnesses she had before then we're a ling infection as a baby, and chicken pox as a toddler).

My LO is almost 16 months and other than after his injections, he has only ever had a fever once, he had a viral/chest infection for a couple of days in December. He has had plenty colds but they never made him unwell or suffer with fever

My daughter was ill at least 1/3 the time in her first year at nursery, ranging from minor coughs and colds, to raging hospitalising fevers (the look on the doctor's face when her temp read 42' is something I won't forget).

She's now 3.5 and she hasn't been ill (touch wood) aside from the odd passing sniffly cold for probably 6 or 9 months.

It felt absolutely incessant when she was little, so it's reassuring that her immune system seems to have kicked in now.

My daughter also has PFAPA. We thought she was just unlucky as a baby/toddler but when she was 4.5 she had a flare that looked like glandular fever, which then they thought was Kawasaki. The ball rolled from there.

Thanks for all the replies. His appt has been cancelled so I feel in a bit of a limbo.

Since 20th December he has had;
Conjunctivitis x3
Chicken pox
Haemophilus bacteremia with meningitis
Endocarditis (as a result of the above)
Rhinovirus - fever
Adenovirus - fever
Enterovirus - fever and rash
8 day fever with negative viral swabs 🤷🏻‍♀️
And another 4 day fever with no tests done

So that's in approx 4 months

I've sent an email to the hospital asking if we can at least have a telephone appt rather than nothing.