My son is 1. He's had a fever since Monday- temp around 37.8 most of the time then a couple of spikes to 38.2 usually around midnight.
My concern is his history. He was in hospital with a bacterial infection and endocarditis in January. He's still under cardiology there and we have a follow up with them on Monday.
I have rang gp and they are calling me back but reception advised they will probably advise to call 111 due to fever.
Now. He has a kebsiella pneumoni ESBL colonisation (they think on his skin) which basically if this causes and infection somewhere else it's resistant to a lot of antibiotics.
He has had dodgy poo's for a few days too and a chesty cough but only first thing in the morning and late at night.
I have been remaining calm so far but as it's day 4 and the temp hasn't gone I'm starting to worry. I'm worried that due to current virus issues he may have an infection but no one will see him and he'll be left too late.
We were fobbed off in January as viral then he was admitted for a month. So my head is all over the place.
I know chances are it's nothing serious. But chances being minimal failed us last time and everything they said was highly unlikely came back positive.
What can I do? At what point to I really worry about his fever still being present? 5/6/7 days?
I get the mess the health services are dealing with now, but it doesn't mean other Illnesses stop existing.