Tempatures every week?

[xkatyx]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering of anyone has any advice or knowledge?

My daughter has just turned 1 she is a happy healthy baby girl who eats well, sleeps well and is perfect bight weight for her age.

The problem is, since she was about 3/4 months old she seams to get these tempatures that lead to nothing.
They come make her a little grotty, sleepless night, next day little of the same then it goes .. No other symptoms at all.

I have taken her to te doctor near enough every time because I worry so much, but I get told "it's a virus"

But this now seams to happen every week usually on a Monday (hence the thread today) after her afternoon nap.

I have discussed my concerns with the doctor but they just tell me she is fine and it's a virus.

I have 2 older children who are not ill and never catch this "virus" from her, also never had this with them before, usually if they have a tempered it follows with something.

I'm so worried

We've had this with DD - it is worrying isn't it? Especially as it seems to lead to nothing or develop into anything.

The Dr told me its a virus too but also - and this makes much more sense - its the immune system developing and unless the temperature starts climbing or you notice other symptoms, then there's nothing to worry about.

Dd is now 2 and if i think back, we had this regularly over the last year and I'd say 2 out of 3 times, it led to nothing more than a sleepless night for us all and a bit of whining and sometimes it turned into a cold or some serious teething a few days later.

It's easy to fall into this but try not to keep taking her temperature as it'll make you worry more and i'm sure our temperatures vary throughout the day anyway.

We haven't had this for ages now so maybe it's something my DD has grown out of and your DD will too.

My DS1 has had spells like this - quite a few proper bugs but lots and lots of non-specific temperatures, some mild but some very high (and stretches of 3-4 months where he has had temperatures every week). At 3.5 he finally seems to be growing out of it. It's really alarming isn't it, and I don't think it's a symptom that you can just ignore as obviously it could be a sign of something serious. I have hassled and hassled our GP at points, convinced that something was really the matter with DS1, and repeatedly been told that as he is growing well and appears healthy in between these bouts, it's just been a succession of viruses. I am finally starting to see that actually, the GP was right.

I did find some info on the internet about a theory that some children have an overactive fever response to bugs which they pick up, and this would certainly tie in with my experience of DS1 developing temps at the drop of a hat.

Jcee's advice to try to stop taking her temperature so much is good. I got completely neurotic about this (to the point where DS1 started taking his own temperature numerous times a day, unprompted ). Now I try to only take the DCs temps if they seem very hot or very grumpy.

Thank you for replying.

It is so worrying my poor little Girly makes me want to cry with frustration :(

nearlytherenow DD taking her own temperature was the sign to me that I was obsessing over it too!