Can a fever come and go?

[Suzie81]

I've probably been very lucky, but my older daughter never had a proper fever, so I'm kinda new to this.

My son who is 15 months developed a fever (nothing terrible, around 38-38.5) on Tuesday. Was generally well in himself, if a little grumpy.

Did the calpol routine and this morning he appeared over it. Didn't have calpol all day, but temp remained normal. But then this evening the temperature returned. Do they come and go like this?

Yeah if course it can. May be a small infection his body has now cleared. Normal things to look at his his nappy is that normal or any like rash or loose stool?

My little boy had a fever like that when he was teething, at 15 months. Could it be his teeth?

Yes it is very normal for a fever to come and go, I find with my DD’s and myself even that fevers and illness always spikes at night and gets worse than during the day keep giving calpol and ibuprofen for babies ( if he doesn’t have any allergies of course) if it doesn’t go down after having the medicine then see a gp or phone 111 but it’s most likely a bug that will pass.

Yes - particularly normal for the temp to rise again later in the day.

Totally normal. Whenever my DC get a fever it tends to go up mid-late afternoon and drop back again after after midnight.

Normally I’d say dose em up and only panic if it goes over 40 - but at the moment I think you’d need to treat it as suspected covid, I.e. self isolate and get him tested.

The advice is the whole house needs to self isolate now

Thanks all.

Sorry if it was a rediculous question, as mentioned it's just not something I'd ever really had to deal with before. Even as an adult I don't recall ever having a proper fever.

Anyway, we got the whole family tested for covid19 and all results came back negative.