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?😕

You need to speak to a doctor, that is a very high temperature and she’s likely to be feeling rotten. A holiday with a poorly baby will be horrible. If it’s an ear infection, flying would be so painful for her. You will also be spreading germs, it doesn’t matter if it’s covid or not.

Glad it has come down a little and she seems happier but that's still a very high temp for a small baby and the covid rules are a temp 37.8 or above so she most definitely needs a covid test and the whole household should be isolating at home until test results come back never mind travelling on a plane. Hope she is better soon.

Well we are in a pandemic where one of the main symptoms is a high temperature......you need to assume at this point its Covid.......holiday or no holiday you should be isolating 🤷‍♀️

You definitely need to cancel. People convincing themselves it is definitely not covid and failing to follow guidelines is why this is spreading and people are moving into higher tiers. We have had it passed around at DS nursery as one of the parents brought in their child with a high temp. It was noticed within an hour or so but still got spread to a nursery nurse and 2 children. The parents were massively out of order in this case as they knew that their daughter had a fever and chanced it for their own convenience. Personally as much as ive wanted a holiday i have refused to book one and those going on holiday have to accept the risk it may get cancelled or you may have to quarantine so please isolate and dont put others at risk

I think your doctor will tell you to get her tested and you all will need to self isolate until you get results. Unfortunately you are unlikely to get the result before Sunday. Hope she starts to feel better. As regards to holiday insurance, you will have to ring them and check.

The temp has spiked back up above 38 as the calpol has worn off. She needs a covid test, please don’t go on holiday with an unwell child in the middle of a pandemic!!

Forget covid. I just wouldnt take a potentially sick kid on holiday in non covid times. A temp that keeps rising like that isnt something to ignore even outside of covid because it's likely it's not covid. Its something else that needs to be dealt with. Its rotten, because they always end up picking the most inconvenient time to get sick, but a holiday with an 8 month old can be difficult without screaming with an ear infection on a plane, or trying to find a doc or medicine or having sleepless nights in a holiday apartment. It's just unfortunately the risk we take when we book a holiday with a baby. I hope you booked with cancellation cover OP.

Focus on the baby. Make sure she is ok. Push the holiday slightly to one side.

I wouldn't take a sick baby on holiday without covid so unfortunately the best thing to do is stay home until she is better.
Change or cancel your trip.
I really hope your little girl feels better soon.
It's a bummer OP !

She needs to stay home and she needs a Covid test.

High temp and airplane doesn't mix well. She will most certainly suffer the change in altitude, dry air etc, as well as she maybe spreading whatever she's got to other passengers.

Having nearly 40 degrees is no ordinally cold. She needs proper rest at home and no holiday.

I’m another who would be cancelling the holiday, but I can honestly say that one of my children developed a very high temperature 39+ every time teeth came through. The first time we ended up in hospital for 2 nights as it was so high, but no cause was found, and the second and third times antibiotics were prescribed by the GP because she suspected tonsillitis. When it happened a fourth time it dawned on me that the temperatures always coincided with lots of dribble, sweet smelling nappies and a tooth popping through the gum. Hand on heart it happened every time - the temperature lasted for 2 or 3 days, could be controlled by alternating calpol and baby ibuprofen.and it was only when another dose of medicine was due that any sign of being unwell appeared.
I know that the general view is that teething doesn’t cause high temperatures but for my little one it definitely did.
Hope your little girl is feeling better soon - sod’s law that by the time you should have been on the plane she’ll be back to her usual self but even so I wouldn’t risk a holiday, anywhere with an unwell child, especially when you don’t know the cause.

GP can only offer a telephone consultation at 12:30 so I've taken her to minor injuries instead so they can look at her properly, hopefully we will get her looked at within the hour.
I'll ask their opinion on the holiday but I'm fully expecting them to say cancel.

When my daughter was teething she always got an ear infection, fever and was ill until antibiotics kicked in. Hope she feels better soon. If you can’t claim on insurance can you rearrange dates?

You’re doing the right thing getting her checked out although I would recommend ringing the walk in and check they’ll see her with a temperature - they may be separating covid symptoms straight to a&e.

I wouldn’t travel with a child with a persistently high temperature in the best circumstances to be honest. I may be wrong but a persistently high temperature puts her at risk of febrile convulsions and I’d rather be on home turf if I had to deal with that.

I’m glad she seems happy in herself, that can be slightly misleading in children though. They can mask symptoms and power through then suddenly worsen. Bit like pets.

I'm quite surprised you would take her to a walk-in with a fever in these times. If it's COVID-19 you'll risk spreading it to other people. Why didn't you take the phone consultation as a first step?

I cannot believe you have taken her out when there is even a slight possibility that she could have covid.

You know you should be getting her tested and unless she is greatly improved you shouldn’t even be thinking of going on holiday but considering you’re booked in the first place I wouldn’t be surprised if you go anyway

The walk-in will either have a 'hot' zone where staff in PPE can assess those with Covid symptoms, or they will not see you.

The very worst option is to take a symptomatic person (even an infant) into a medical facility which says not to enter if you have symptoms. It endangers everyone, and worst cases briefly closes part of the facility for extra cleaning

Hope she’s is ok

I’d like to say that I can’t believe the stupidity of someone who would take a child with a raging temperature to a Minor Injuries Unit. But unfortunately because I work in a secondary school I know only too well how stupid some parents can be when deciding whether they should be sending their child into school with symptoms, if they even bother considering it at all.

You don’t even have the excuse that you were so consumed by worry and concern for your baby that you took her there in a panic. You’ve asked for advice On here, people have consistently told you that you need to get her tested and isolate but you’ve chosen to ignore that advice because you’re so worried about not being able to go on holiday.

Give your head a shake.

Most MIUs won't see illness, only injury.

Even if it's not Covid, common in that age group is an throat/ ear infection...wouldn't want to risk flying with ear infection!

Hopefully OP called in advance and informed them of temp so they can take the necessary precautions.

It’s dangerous to not get children seen by a doc if worried because of the fear of covid. My nieces kidney cancer would have been potentially missed at the start of covid had my sister not taken her in even though she had a temp- she called prior to going in and was met outside and taken away from others.

People are dying because of covid and not because they have covid but because they are being told not to seek emergency help. Deaths from heart attacks and strokes at the home is alarming high at the moment

You really shouldn't have taken her there. You had been offered a telephone appointment with your gp and should have organised a Covid test.

OP you KNOW you can't go on holiday. I'm a bit that you would even consider it. Your baby is ill and needs to be taken care of, not taken on holiday, the poor thing - and baby NEEDS to be tested for covid.
Such is life - you can go on holiday another time. (Pre-covid, my DB and SIL were going on holiday and one of their DC came down with a bad fever just before, but they ignored it and went anyway; DC ended up extremely ill, in hospital for weeks, in coma, almost died, all very far from home. I don't mean to scare you OP, just saying you need to take this seriously.)