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1 yr old has a prolonged fever... what should I be looking for?

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Muststopeating · 02/08/2022 13:57

DD3 is 1 year old. She has had a temperature close to 40C since Sat. It does come down if I do paracetamol and ibuprofen but not one or the other. Today she is refusing medicine entirely, so can't get the temp down.

She spent all day Sunday and all day today asleep on me. She was slightly better yesterday and played a bit in between times but not great.

She has been taking her morning and night milk and has little bits of food and water in the day. I don't think she is dehyrdated, but hasn't pooed since yesterday morning which is very unusual for her (though not terribly surprising given how little she has eaten).

No sunken soft spot. And although very very lethargic she is not floppy (she can sit up, she just doesn't want to).

She is normally a very busy little baby, so to see her constantly asleep or staring into space is a bit disconcerting.

I am on a call list for the GP and will likely hear back in the next hour. I am not going to A&E.

There are no other symptoms to suggest its mengingitis, septicemia or kawaskai.

She also had her 12month jabs a week ago. I'd been putting it down to that. I started feeling a bit poorly (body aches/snuffle) last night so now I wonder if its that/combination.

Am I missing something? What else should I be looking for? What else could it be? (Please don't be worried about scaring me... I'd rather have information and am not an anxious person).

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pigletsbiggestfan · 02/08/2022 20:42

A bit different as mine is 5 - but my DD had a temperature for 4 days recently. No obvious cause, she didn't complain of any pain what so ever - it turned out to be bacterial tonsillitis! I never would have known.
5 days antibiotics and she was right as rain!

letsflyaway1 · 02/08/2022 20:42

I would take her in now to be honest

Pluckyduck · 03/08/2022 00:02

Hi OP. It’s highly likely to be tonsillitis or a urine infection with temps that high.

Muststopeating · 12/08/2022 21:30

Thanks everyone. Sorry I never came back, bizarrely this thread is the one thing MN didn't notify me abour so I just assumed I'd had no responses.

Just an updste... she is back to her busy, smiley little self.

The nurse practitioner called us in and had a good look at her. Decided it didn't seem to be anything bacterial so went home with instructions to force in calpol/ibuprofen and come back in 2 days if not better.

The next day I tested positive for COVID.

I then assumed it was that, didn't bother testing since it just seemed unnecessary. And after another day or two she was much better.

However, having not been anywhere this week, her and my eldest daughter (who had tested negative) both started sniffling. Both tested positive. So now I don't know if hers is a legacy positive or new and the temp was in fact related to her jabs.

Either way, wanted to update that she is fine. Thanks for the replies.

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Mamabear12 · 15/08/2022 18:52

She probably has covid. I had a fever for several days with covid and it took 14 days to get over.

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