Has your child had a prolonged fever? And if so, what did you do about it and what was the outcome?

[foxinsocks]

Poor dd has been ill for ages now. She had the vomiting bug doing the rounds around 2 weeks ago. Then she developed a sore ear. It went on and off for a few days but eventually, last Tuesday, dh took her to the doctor and she was given antibiotics for a suspected ear infection (doc could not see the ear drum because of the amount of wax - this is an ongoing problem with dd!).

She got the antibs as she had had a fierce temperature for 3 days (before she saw the doc) and it had stopped responding to nurofen/calpol.

So that meant her temp must have started last Saturday. Well, despite the antibs, she still has a temperature. She's definitely not in as much pain, she's not waking up at night at all BUT the lumps in her neck (behind her ear but further down her neck, her lymph glands I guess) are still swollen and large and her temperature is spiking almost every afternoon (for the last 2 days, it's hit the heady heights of 41.5C!).

Apart from the lumps and her getting lethargic when she has a temperature (and the odd complaint about her ear), you would not know she was ill AT ALL.

So, we'll have to take her back on Monday I guess but has anyone else's child ever gone through something like this?

oh I should say dd is 7 and I'm guessing this ear (if it is infected) has been so for around 10 days.

Yes! When DD (14m) started Nursery in August we all caught a "virus" that lasted weeks! (I still have a cough). She had a temp for at least 6 days and in the end I was alternating Calpol and Nurofen. We even called NHS direct one night but the Dr could hear her laughing at DP so they told us to stay put and see the GP in the morning despite her temp being 38/39.

The GP said it would go down but to keep an eye on her. Checked us over and niether of us had any infection just this odd Virus that she could not do anything for. DD woke a few times more each night, had a runny nose and cough but otherwise was quite like her normal self too.

Her temp sounds very high and I would take her back to the GP to double check it is nothing else.

Thanks.

Yes, I wonder if it is a virus (rather than an infection). I mean I suppose it's possible but the fact that we can't get her temperature down with medicine is worrying (although as long as I spot that her temperature is about to hit something like 40/41C, then I can start stripping her down and try and cool her - it's easy to spot as she starts looking like she's going to faint!).

I don't get myself in a tizz very much about health stuff but I am starting to worry about something more serious because she APPEARS ok then we will do something like walk to the shops (not far) and her temperature shoots back up again which has made me think of things like glandular fever (though her throat isn't horrendous) and, god forbid, things like leukemia (because she was complaining about bleeding gums the other day too).

yes, I'll make sure she goes back on Monday. As I said, I'm normally very relaxed about this sort of thing but you know when you just think something serious might be wrong...you know, that awful nagging you get in the back of your head. I just think something is not quite right with her .

Foxy poor dd, must be miserable. And worrying, for you. My friend's dd (4) had a very similar string of illnesses recently...and non-stop spiking temps, high, for days on end; finally, after being given ABs for an ear infection, the GP realized she had a UTI (no pain, other than occasional not-severe tummy ache) and changed her ABs - finally did the trick, though she wasn't back to her old self for another week or so.

I would definitely head back to GP on Monday, even to A&E in meantime if she's any worse. I hope she won't be though!

Get well soon mini-fox, xxx

Thanks Elibean.

Thing is you wouldn't really know she was ill other than the fact that she's a lot more tired than normal and she's got these strange temperature spikes (and lumps). I will mention the UTI to the doc - she's had one before and did have the unusual temperature (but she also had a sore tummy when she had one last time).

She also said it felt like someone had given her an injection in her collar bone (well she pointed to her collar bone)!

It's very very odd and all a bit sudden and unusual. I'm really hoping it's just a bad string of bugs that happened to have hit her when she was feeling low rather than an indication of something sinister.

Hi Fox, did you get to the bottom of this? How is dd?