Help - child's temperature hasn't dropped with nurofen

[violeta]

My daughter is 2. She's got a cold/viral infection. Half an hour ago, she had temp of 38, so gave her dose of nurofen. But, temp hasn't dropped as would expect and is now 39. What do I do? She did spit out maybe a third so didn't get full dose which may explain it. Can I give her a bit more nurofen? How much? Or can I give her calpol?
Thanks!

How's it going, violeta? I don't think those temps are unduly high, but if you're worried I'd phone NHS direct to get some advice.
hth.

38 isnt high at all, 39 is getting there. You can alternate calpol and nurofen but I think if I were you I would wait a wee while and see what happens with the temp as you may need them to be more spread out to cover the fever if that makes sense?

Does she have any symptoms of a chest infection or anything?

I would be tempted to call teh GP to be honest but I am a panicker!

You can give Neurofen and Calpol together

I panicked the other night when ds' temp didn't seem to come down, too - but it did eventually. Nurofen can take about 40 mins to an hour to kick in.

Try alternating calpol with nurofen every three hours. You are best keeping steady level of stuff in the bloodstream, if you wait till it is on the up, it's harder to get level again quickly iyswim.

Hope she is better soon, ds has had this for 3 days now and seems slightly less hot.

Thanks all - I managed to duplicate this message when I first posted and all of the initial replies came on the other one!