Hi
I'm hoping someone can offer some advice or may have experienced something similar.
My 5 year old tested positive for Covid on the 11th July. We all isolated and the rest of the family all tested negative. I'll add at this point he hasn't left the house since then and neither has my 3 year old. His only symptom was a high temperature for 12 hours and a bit of a cough.
Last Monday (day 17 since first symptom), he came down with a very high temperature, hitting 40.4. My 2 year old had had tonsillitis the week before so assumed he had caught it as well. Dosed him with nurofen and this would drop the temperature to 38/38.5 for 4 hours then it would shoot back up again. Along with this he was extremely lethargic, his skin felt like fire, wanted to sleep all the time and complained of a headache when his temperature was high.
I spoke to the GP on Tuesday who prescribed him Amoxicillin. I had checked his throat and also asked him and all looked fine. The GP wouldn't examine him - all was done by telephone. On Wednesday I started getting worried, I called 111 who said the GP needed to examine him, an appointment was made for Thursday morning. She checked him over and said all looked fine and to just keep going with the antibiotics.
On Friday, still no improvement I noticed a rash developing, GP wanted to see pictures so I sent them through to the surgery and as they were disappearing when skin was stretched said it was most likely viral.
Saturday morning he woke and the rash had worsened.
I spoke to 111 and then out of hours called 20 minutes later. I explained the whole story and he said he thought he was headed for a hospital admission. I was told to dose him with 10ml of Calpol, then 10ml of nurofen an hour later and they would then see him at out of hours a further hour later.
He was fully examined and by this point his temperature has dropped to normal. I was told they expected to see an improvement by tomorrow at the latest and would be very unusual for it to go on that long. I was told to dose him with Calpol and nurofen around the clock. His last dose is 10.15pm at night and this morning, despite being on antibiotics for 4 days (having been told they take 48 hours to kick in), his temperature was sky high again.
The problem i have is that by dosing him like this round the clock he is acting normal as it's controlling the temperature but it clear when he's having the gap from night to morning the temperature is still there and we are 4 days into the antibiotics.
I honestly feel at a loss as to what to do. GP is just not helping at all, 111/out of hours are basically seeing him and examining when he's been fully doses so of course he seems 'normal' but when the temperature returns it's awful, body is hot, he's tired, head hurts and he won't eat.
Where do I go from here? I feel like he should abs at least been offered a blood test?!
I have no idea if this is as a result from the Covid but would be weird to suddenly flare on day 17 given he had little to no symptoms and there is no obvious cause (ear:tbroat/chest or uti).
Can anyone offer any advice?