Poor DS has had a fever for days and days, which turned out to be an ear infection - now has runny ears and is on antibiotics. Anyway, I thought I'd pass on a tip from the doctors on using paracetamol and ibuprofen. Basically, you can give these together (as long as your child is over six months), so that when the effect of one wears out before the next dose is due, you can give the other. Ibuprofen (Nurofen) is every eight hours, paracetamol (Calpol) is every four-six hours (not more than four times a day) - so you could administer ibuprofen first, then calpol, then a double dose for bedtime. This seemed to work really well with bringing down DS's temperature and keeping it down - initially we found the calpol would wear off and we would have an hour of misery until he could have another dose. Still had a rather miserable time (including waiting five hours in A&E with numerous other feverish children) but at least I learnt something useful. Only problem is, now DS has decided he hates syringes so I have to figure out how to get the antibiotics in...