Delirium due to fever

[jennifersofia]

Hello, is there anyone with experience of this (recurrent) in their child?
My DD is 9 and experiences delirium bouts when she gets feverish. It is fairly scary, as she is completely not herself, and hard to 'retrieve' from it. I wonder if there are any longer term effects, or if anything can be done. (Other than obviously keeping temperature down). It can be quite worrying.

Anyone?

I remember hallucinating when I was a child - think I had mumps or measles, can't remember. There were tigers in my bedroom, but friendly ones, I wasn't scared.

You will have to ask my friends if they think it had any long term effects. It doesn't happen any more (ha! can't remember the last time I had the luxury of being ill!)

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

Thanks anyway. She never remembers them after she has an episode.

does she get very high temperatures when this happens?

the only reason I ask is both dd and I get this when we have high temperatures but dd especially gets ridiculously high temps

when she is ill, her temperature almost always goes over 40C and in fact has hit 41C before. We have to keep an incredibly close eye on her in case of fitting but she definitely goes into a sort of trance when her temp gets this high. I get exactly the same thing (but am hardly ever ill compared to her ) so I've always wondered if it's hereditary!

btw, we were told that brain damage from just a high temperature (i.e. with no other complicating factors - like hyperthermia/heat stroke/heat exhaustion which is a different matter all together) only happens from around 42C onwards. This was when dd had a temp of 41.6C and we were obv v concerned.

Their rules seem to be as long as you can manage the temp and they are not obviously seriously ill in themselves (if you know what I mean), then you need to take the standard measures to bring it down.

In your shoes, it might be worth speaking to a doctor about it, just for reassurance.

ds is a very hot child (happy to stand in the snow in t shirt and shorts IYKWIM) He's had a couple of them (usually hes standing on top of a volcano with lava flowing all around)

Second the sheets/blankets

Have tried those cool gel forehead sheets but they don't seem to make much difference.

I was wondering if you had gotten any formal assessment of the fevers with hallucinations as our son has the same response to fever. He is a teenager so a bit older than your child’s age at the time.

@jennifersofia

I had this a couple of times as a kid, most notably when I had anaphylaxis (or the illness before or after it- it was while I was in hospital and vey hot).

Apparently that’s what the song ‘Comfortably Numb’ by Pink Flloyd is about and the lines ‘A distant ship, smoke on the horizon./You are only coming through in waves…/Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying./When I was a child I had a fever/My hands felt just like two balloons….’ sum it up perfectly for me… a kind of weird dislocation from everything but with a very precise feeling of knowing what’s going on, despite knowing that that thing is logically very unlikely.

B - white choc and peanut butter baked oats
L - egg salad
T - breaded chicken in a roll, chips, gherkins
Snacks - wotsits, peanuts
Drinks - 2 coffees, diet cola, water

Actually have no idea how I got to this thread!! How weird!!