DS9 was sent home from school Thursday with a fever and no other symptoms. He said he just felt a bit "unwell" so went to the nurse but was surprised she found a fever. Fever was 38.7.
He slept most of the afternoon, but otherwise didn't seem that bad and I assumed it was just a virus. Come Friday morning his temperature had risen to 39.9 and he slept all day, hardly drinking, I kept trying to get him to drink but he says everything tastes horrible. He seemed delirious a couple of times and hard to wake sometimes but I persisted and he would wake enough to drink, say something vaguely sensible, and then go back to sleep. Calpol brought temp down to 38.7 ish. I let him sleep through the day and night.
Now today he's still sleeping. Temp is slightly lower as it's mid 38 with no calpol. I've managed to get probably 1 large glass of water in him all day. But otherwise he's sleeping.
I've never known a virus where someone sleeps almost solidly for 2.5 days with no other symptoms. No coughing/sneezing or gastro signs. Only notable thing is he's really complaining everything tastes horrible. He's not eaten at all over the past 2 days either.
Is this just a virus going around do you think? And we just need to wait ?