6 year old with high temp

[pigsinmud]

Ds2 had high temp for 24 hours now. It was hitting 40 c in the night and most of today has been 39.4 c. He has a headache and complaining his eyes hurt.
Now getting any calpol or nurofen into him is a nightmare - always brings it back. So has had no medication. He has managed a piece of toast. Been in bed all day dozing.
Now he had this about 6 weeks ago, although temp not as high.
Is there anything a GP can recommend apart from calpol? Can't see us getting any medicine into him. When he broke his leg 4 years ago they attempted calpol and realised it was a nightmare , so they put the medicine up his bottom - can you get it in that style from the gp?

yes you can get suppositories

poor thing .. sounds dire .. am assuming no rash

Assume you have tried mixing the calpol with something he likes to try and get it down him? (Chocolate sauce? or something else he really likes) At 6 I would have thought that a bit of reasoning and bribery should have some impact - Sticker chart?
Temp really is quite high, and you could get into the risk of a febrile fit if it gets much higher, so finding some way of getting calpol in would be good, but in the meantime, strip him off as much as possible, and even sponge him down a bit with tepid water.
If it doesn't improve soon would speak to the GP or NHS direct for advice.
Good luck

Suppositories - that's the word! Thanks Twiglett - having a vacant brain day. No rash, no stiff neck.
Could try mixing it - thanks Bamzooki. Bribery won't work as he understands that it'll make him feel better - it just always makes him sick. He seems better at keeping nurofen in - just takes about 20 mins to get it down. Perhaps I'll attempt that when the others are in bed.