My weird boy - what's going on?

[Weegle]

Background: DS 21 months. History of difficult teething. Temperatures have caused febrile convulsions in past.

Mon he was off colour - seriously tetchy and off food. Tue, absolutely fine till 4pm when he suddenly went white as a sheet in the car and threw up. Spent next two hours on my lap snuggling/dozing but temp going up and down. Refused dinner and milk but happy and went to bed ok. Woke about 1.30 hungry so I gave him some milk. Slept till 6.30/7. Refused breakfast. Temp spiked up to 39.5 and he snuggled up on lap. Then he seemed right as rain again, playing etc. 10am crawled on to lap, roasting and fell asleep (should point out I have been doing calpol/calprofen alternately all day). Woke 10.45, stayed snuggled for another hour then got up and played again totally normally. Asked for lunch, ate a small amount and now playing as fine. the only other not normal thing he's doing is drinking A LOT. So is this mega teething for his back molars or some random bug? I get a bit jittery over his temp because of the convulsions so have kept him off nursery and stayed home with him but not sure if this is just bad teething and he's fine really? He is complaining of his teeth saying "teeth, bonjela" but it's never been quite this bad before. It's just so weird how one minute he's floppy and boiling and the next you'd never know anything was wrong. Nappies all fine btw. Ideas?

Sounds like a lurgy - but it could also be compounded by (back) teething. If he has a fever then drinking a lot is good - he may also have a sore throat,and find a cool drink soothing on that and his gums, especially if the drinks in a beaker and he can chew the lid.

It sounds like you're doing all the right things.

Thanks - it just seems so on and off for a bug but then the dips do seem to be associated with his temp so maybe the calpol/calprofen are doing a pretty good job.

My boy used to do this sort of thing when he was teething. The Dr told me, they don't get a fever with teething! my lad did, raging ones, must say he wasn't usually sick. but my girl throws up whenever she has a fever.
hope it passes soon

thank you - a useless GP told me that too. Totally lost faith in her after that - I felt like saying "you obviously haven't met my son".

Am now convinced it was particularly nasty teething - he's been absolutely fine today, it wouldn't have passed so quickly if it had been a bug I think. Have also learnt from MIL that DH was like this and had several high fevers and convulsions leading up to 2, definitely teething related so I guess DS is taking after his dad.