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Could The Fever Be Due To The Mild T3 Compression Fracture?
My son sustained a mild T3 compression fracture after falling off the monkey bars 5 days ago. He has done well with little pain. We are scheduled to see an ortho specialist in 5 more days. The urgent care doctor did not give us many instructions as he said he did not see this type of injury in kids much. He has just recently developed a fever of 100.4 and a mild headache. No other signs of illness/complaints and no increased back pain. I know he might be coming down with something else but I wondered if there is concern with a fever this far our from injury or could it be related to the fracture? We haven t seen the ortho doctor yet so I can t call them and like I mentioned we went to an urgent care. Thank you
Mon, 26 Sep 2016
Hi your son had fallen from monkey bars and is suffering from Fracture of T3 vertebra 5 days back and is now having fever 100.4. In my opinion the fever is not likely to be caused by Fracture and we have to look for some other cause likely to be a sore throat . give him paracetamol at present and consult your doctor for fever.
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