8 month old has v high temp and we're due to go on holiday tomorrow

[DisneyBaby]

Help, what should I do?
We booked a last minute holiday to go to Crete for a week from Saturday, 2 adults and our 8 month old baby girl.
But this evening our 8 month old has got a very high temperature 39.8. I have given Calpol and Nurofen alternating for the last 12 hours but it keeps creeping back up.
I'm pretty certain it's not covid, I think it's most likely teething related as she's been showing a lot of teething signs lately.
What should I do? We have 24 hours until we go on holiday? This would have been our first with our daughter.
Do we still go and hope it will pass quickly? Or cancel?
I could try and get some antibiotics from my GP last min today and still go?
What is the healthcare like in Crete, if we were to need it?
Would insurance pay out if we were to cancel? I booked flights, accom, and transfers all separate?😕

Babies and toddlers and kids can get temps that last 12 hours and then gone, so it could be nothing. But, you need a covid test as a priority and then to see a doctor.

My little one had a temp of 39.8 that wouldn't go down even with painkillers, went all floppy and lethargic and we ended up blue lighting into A&E with suspected meningitis.

Luckily it was 'just' a bad stomach bug but he still needed a blood test, iv fluids and iv antibiotics (until the blood test told us it was a virus) plus three nights in hospital.

Take no chances

I don't think your going to crete op, sorry 😞

Airports are checking temperatures on arrival into the airport then, in my experience, the air company is checking again before boarding. So i don't think you'd get to go anyway.

Agree that holidays with poorly children suck. My 3 year old got ill the day we left our holiday- started with a very high temperature and ended up in hospital with salmonella poisoning. We were so glad he got ill the last day and not the first so he was in hospital at home.

Worst case scenario, she's spikes again on the plane and has a Febrile convulsion (terrifying at the best of times), plane has to divert, you have to make the decision whether you tell the doctors, in the country you land, the truth and open a massive legal can of worms, or you lie and jeopardise your daughter's care.

I hope you’ve called 111.

Temperatures that high can be really dangerous in a baby, covid would be absolutely the least of my concern with a temp that high.

My friend has just cancelled a trip to Greece in similar circumstances. Greek airports are scanning temperatures on arrival. Can you imagine being turned back at the airport and having to arrange new flights home, especially with a poorly baby.

Oh and on another holiday both DC came down with a sickness bug. That was miserable- days of cleaning up sick in a rental accommodation and worrying about whether they'd be ok to fly back. Oh and the 15 month old refusing calpol (we live abroad and the calpol equivalent tastes different - Id brought some with me but not enough)

I would also suggest that it could be a urine infection, so she needs her urine tested. DD had UTIs as a baby that landed her in hospital. Untreated UTIs have serious implications and you need to see a doctor today.

If there is any possibility of an ear infection (common cause of high temp in babies and toddlers) flying would be agony for her.
Agree with everyone saying seek medical advice and read your insurance policy and booking T&C.
Sorry, it is disappointing. TBH I never found holidays with babies very relaxing. None of mine liked being in a strange place when they were little.

Please call 111 or your GP. A close friend had similar with her baby son a few months ago and assumed it was teething. When she took him to A&E after a few days it turned out he had a UTI, and he spent a few days in hospital on an antibiotic drip. The doctors there told her very clearly that teething does not cause a high temperature, and that a high temperature in a baby should always be checked out.

That's so gutting but you really can't go OP.

I get that you're disappointed and wrote this post in the vague hope that we would all say to go anyway...
But it would be a clear NO even if covid weren't a thing. That's a massive fever and you may need medical attention for your daughter. Getting on a plane is not a safe action.
Add covid into the equation and it becomes irresponsible to those around you too.

You already know the right thing to do.
It's poor luck and timing but that's the nature of children.
I hope that your child is ok and maybe you can claim on travel insurance.

I would get a covid test because your insurance will lijely insist on it, canelling due to sickness is fine but im nit sure about covid

Hopefully any doctor worth their salt won’t hand out antibiotics like smarties, especially in this situation when it’s likely to be a virus. Antibiotics only really treat bacterial infections.

Sorry OP you can’t go.
Very high temp- higher than I’ve heard of with teething
A gp prob won’t even see you without a negative Covid test given the symptom
Even if it’s not covid a flight with that ill of a child would be hellish.

Hope you have insurance ?

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Not looking good for the holiday tbh even though it's Gona be disappointing, that's a really high temp and as others have said airports will be checking temps. Even if you did manage to get on the plane what about when you arrive and have a temp check then have to self isolate while on holiday? I would rather be at home self isolating than in a different country personally

DO NOT go!!! My 18month is very ill with COVID at the moment. When everyonet including drs told me it WAS NOT going to be COVID !!

Agree with the others. Sorry op, I don’t think you’re going on holiday

You can't go. The baby needs a Covid test and you all need to isolate until you get the result. Even without Covid I wouldn't drag a poorly baby on a plane. It would be awful for all of you.

You can't go. You can't put your ill baby at risk. You can't put everyone else on your flight at risk. You can't transfer this virus to Crete.

Being ill abroad is so much more difficult than being ill at home, even without all the complications of insurance, payment for healthcare, restrictions on when you can fly home. Being stuck in Menorca with my LO with chicken pox was awful, the insurance wouldn't pay for my DH to stay too...just me and a sick baby for two more weeks was horrendous.

Do the right thing and get a Covid test. You know you should OP, as sad as it is to miss your holiday.
I can’t believe anyone would risk putting a plane full of people - some of whom will be vulnerable - at risk. Every time you step outside and mix you’re potentially risking somebody else’s health.
Hope your baby feels better soon

I don't think you should give nurofen if it might be covid? Or is that old advice?

It would completely irresponsible to fly with an ill child on a plane. Whatever virus she has she will spread. That's a rocking high temp too. It's not teeth. She may need medical attention. Do you want to have to lie when they ask you when the fever started and possibly affect her medical care?

Hyperpyrexia can occur with a temp over 40, seizures and organ failure possibly death.

I would get her to your GP or A&E ASAP if her temp is not down very soon.

I wouldn’t even consider going on holiday.

If she is better in a couple of days you can take a later flight and go for less days.

You sound self focused, whining that you havnt had a holiday with your baby in 8 months. Do babies like holidays?

There’s a pandemic and some people havnt seen loved ones in 8 months, let alone had a holiday!

Who told you teething can cause a temperature that high?

I think this post is not quite right.

Update:
So she's woken up this morning and the last lot of Calpol was 4 hours ago, so would have worn off by now.
Her temperature is now around 38.6, yellow on the thermometer.
She seems happy and her usual playful self.

My GP is calling me back within an hour or two for advice.