Dd is 2 next week, and a couple of weeks ago, was unwell in the night. She had quite a high temperature (not sure what, exactly, but she was v.hot) which we struggled to bring down as we could only get one spoonful of Calpol into her. She was shivering, vomited once, and then went back to sleep. She was fine in herself, though.
The following day, she was still warm, although eating, drinking and playing fine etc, and we went to my mum's in the afternoon. It was quite a brisk day, although not cold, and my mum insisted on putting a padded jacket on dd, which obviously caused her temp to rocket again. She was shivering and her lips were blue, although she was, once again, fine in herself. I gave her some Calprofen, took the coat off her and she was fine, back to normal in 5 mins.
My aunty happened to arrive a little later, she is a paediatric nurse, and she suggested that shivering with a fever could indicate a kidney infection. So, because this totally freaked me out, and despite dd's temperature not going up again that day, and since then, I took her to the GP. Stupidly, I mentioned what my aunty had said, and now under his advice I have been trying for the past ten days to get a urine sample from her.
What is confusing me is this: in the days when I was even more neurotic than I am now, and dd was about 6mo, I took her to A&E with a shivering fever. The doctors words were, "She hasn't got a temperature now, she is fine, don't you shiver when you have a fever? The body is just trying to cool itself down."
It never occurred to me to be concerned about the shivering this time because of that. I would stress that she has been absolutely fine for the past ten days.
Is shivering with a fever really that unusual?