4YO with fever.. medicine question

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DD has had a temp since last night. She's been fine in the day reply despite this, eating & drinking. I have been giving Ibruprofen every 6 hours, Calpol every 4. I gave her Neurofen last at 2pm. At 6pm I took her temp & it has climbed from 38.4 to 38.9. Gave her Calpol then as it was due. I'm going to wake her at 8pm to give Ibruprofen. Do I need to then wake her at 10pm to give Calpol? Then again at 2am & so on & so forth. I almost don't want to IF she's asleep but also wary this temp isn't the nicest for her & the fact it's now the evening & naturally the body always gets worse with temps. Do you guys wake your kids?

The point of giving Calpol/Nurofen is to make kids more comfortable, not to fight the infection, and in fact there may be an advantage to letting the high temp run in terms of killing off a virus. If she's sleeping peacefully I definitely wouldn't wake her.

If she's settled and sleeping I'd just let her sleep. Just make sure you're not going over the number of doses in 24 hours for the medicines. For ibuprofen it's a maximum of 3 doses in 24 hours and for paracetamol it's 4 doses. If you're giving them every 6 hours and 4 hours respectively, you'll have a gap where you can't give anything for a while until it gets to the next 24 hours period.

Does she have a reason for the temperature? E.g runny nose, cough, sore ear etc? If not might be worth getting a urine sample dipped to make sure it's not a uti if the temps continue.

Hope shes on the mend soon!

Temp of 38+ is high, but not high enough for me to wake up the child if she's peacefully asleep, especially she's well enough to eat and drink.
High temp is there for a reason, killing virus/bacteria. Just make sure she isn't over heated etc, and let her sleep.

Thanks all. I'm just freaking out a little because all day the temp has responded to Calpol & Neurofen ok, either keeping it stable or bringing it down a bit. I gave her Calpol an hour ago & the temp was 38.9, now it's 39. She's sleeping but muttering now and again. She has a light duvet but I've taken that & replaced with a bed sheet. Also have a fan going in the room. Will wake her at 8 as I say for Neurofen. Bloody temperatures. I think she has a cold on the way as her nose sounds snotty (although she had a cold that finished a week ago, no temp with that one. I thought the summer was meant to be better for illness but clearly I'm wrong 🫠🫠)