High temp virus, anyone else's got this?

[Lucyand2]

DD 2 suddenly got ill yesterday. She was fine then within half an hour she had a high temp, started shaking and went very quiet. I gave her some calpol, she had a nap then all seemed fine. This morning at her first trip to playschool (I stayed to see how she took to it) and the same thing happened. Apart from the temp, etc, she is fine. There are no rashes, no sickness, she eats fine when the calpol takes effect.
The playschool leader said this was going round the local school and her son had it for about a week. She took her son to the docs and was told it was a virus.
I'm taking DD1 to the docs tomorrow for something else so I'll get DD2 checked out then just in case.
Is this going around everyone's kids at the moment? We can't seem to catch a break round here with our health at the moment!

Pet, it sounds like your daughter had a febrile convulsion, she should be checked over by the GP today.

Could be rigors not necessarily a convulsion.
But yes, it sounds familiar. 2 of my DC had a high fever with cough thing, 2 weeks ago. Was not much fun!!

Probably didn't explain the shaking very well - it was shivering, her hands were quite cold too. I've seen people having convulsions and it wasn't like that at all.

My ds had it a few weeks ago, other than a v high fever he had no other symptoms, very strange. Lasted for 5 days was a nightmare. Had to use both calpol and nurofen to keep it down.

Yes, my DS1 had this a week ago. It went on for about 5 days with fever up to 40.4 degrees and no other symptoms. He was fine as long as we controlled the fever. At one point, he did get dehydrated though (because of the fever and not drinking/eating much) so that's something to watch out for. The out of hours GP who saw DS1 had seen several other children with the same thing and was adamant that it was not flu.

That's good, I was worried there.

You can try a tepid wet flannel, a fan which oscilates (sp?), paracetamol and ibuprofen.

I've got her on calpol and if needed I've got calprofen in too. It's weird as she is fine apart from the temp!
Thanks for all the responses!

Ibuprofen's far better at reducing a fever then paracetamol, you can alterante them, Ibrofen first, paracetamol 2 hours later, ibuprofen 2 hours after this. Make sure you follow the dosage though.