Dd sick with high fever

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Dd (5) has had cold type symptoms for about a week but seemed ok. But on Friday night she woke up with a high fever and is rather unwell. Tonight she woke up at 10 pm in a very distressed state. I think she had a bad dream but then even after she woke she seemed very confused and didn't know where she was. She had a similar thing last winter and nhs direct assured me that it's normal for young children and the elderly to have hallucinations when they have a fever. But it's so terrible seeing her so distressed.

She calmed down after a while and was fine again and went back to sleep. But I am so worried about her. I am giving her calpol and nurofen.

Has anyone else had this with their child ?

What's her temperature?

I'd get her seen at least tomorrow as chances are she has an infection which requires antibiotics. If it doesn't seem like a throat / chest infection I'd go for ear infection - ime they can cause quite dramatic temp spikes and the pain is worse when they lie down.

Ds had a very high fever when he had pneumonia and was 'out of it'. Not nice.

Thanks for responding left.
I haven't actually measured her temperature but it's been going up and down.
I hope she will be ok tonight. I am in London, it's snowing heavily and I don't have a car. I think I will put her in my bed and watch her closely tonight.

Good plan. I tend to take temp before giving calpol because with ds if it doesn't go down its usually a bacterial infection.

How is she this morning?