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Does Fever Cramps In 17 Month Old Affect On A Long Run?
My 17 months old baby had a 102.4 fever this afternoon. The fever didn t seems to go away even after I dressed her in onesie and tried to keep the room cool for her since we ve just moved to Germany I had no fever reducer medicines aviliable. We ve been in the German guest housing since the beginning of Jan looking for house to rent. My baby has been teething a lot lately. Fever some and go before. However this time the fever didn t seems to go away for the whole day. She ended up having three sudden cramps and jerking movements in three period of times. The last one was so servere that she went to a serious fever cramp. Her eyes were looking stil, the face was pale and the lips was purple and had no reponse. So we ended up taking her to a German children hospital. The two doctors are suspecting that she is having fever cramp. She is ow under over night observation. Will this really hurt her in the long run? What do i do if thsi happen again?
Fri, 20 Oct 2017
Hi...Thank you for consulting in Health Care magic.
Fever of few days without any localizing signs could as well a viral illness. Usually rather than fever, what is more important is the activity of the child, in between 2 fever episodes on the same day. If the kid is active and playing around when there is no fever, it is probably viral illness and it doesn't require antibiotics at all. Once viral fever comes it will there for 4-7 days. So do not worry about duration if the kid is active.
Paracetamol can be given in the dose of 15mg/kg/dose (maximum ceiling dose of 500mg) every 4-6th hourly that too only if fever is more than 100F. I suggest not using combination medicines for fever, especially with Paracetamol.
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
Fever of few days without any localizing signs could as well a viral illness. Usually rather than fever, what is more important is the activity of the child, in between 2 fever episodes on the same day. If the kid is active and playing around when there is no fever, it is probably viral illness and it doesn't require antibiotics at all. Once viral fever comes it will there for 4-7 days. So do not worry about duration if the kid is active.
Paracetamol can be given in the dose of 15mg/kg/dose (maximum ceiling dose of 500mg) every 4-6th hourly that too only if fever is more than 100F. I suggest not using combination medicines for fever, especially with Paracetamol.
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
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