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Suggest Treatment For Fever And Cold In Children
Hello there Dr. Rynne, My concern is my 13month old granddaughter. She has a cough with nasal discharge (yellow) and had a high fever for 4 days last week. At 103.3 we went to the Walk in clinic and the following day the family physician....diagnosis was a cold . She had been given Advil and Tylenol and tepid baths. . to keep the temp down. During the fever stage she had some skin mottling. Her temp the last 2 days ha
Mon, 23 Nov 2015
Hi Dear,
Welcome to HCM.
Understanding your concern. As per your query your grand daughter have fever and cold that too of high grade 103.3 which seems to be due to viral infection because immunity is getting lowered down and making her prone to viral infections. I would suggest you to take combination of antiviral drug such as Famicyclovir along with anti-inflammatory drug such as Benadryl. Take diet rich in multivitamins and vitamin C. Your symptoms will resolve in 4-5 days. You should give NSAID's along with paracetamol as well. If symptoms keeps on persisting visit pediatrician once and get some routine blood investigation done. You should do tepid sponging on your child's head to lower down body temperature. Avoid hot, spicy and sharp food substances. Give her steam inhalation twice a day to relieve the congestion and drink warm water with one spoon honey in it .
Hope your concern has been resolved.
Get Well Soon.
Best Wishes,
Dr. Harry Maheshwari
Welcome to HCM.
Understanding your concern. As per your query your grand daughter have fever and cold that too of high grade 103.3 which seems to be due to viral infection because immunity is getting lowered down and making her prone to viral infections. I would suggest you to take combination of antiviral drug such as Famicyclovir along with anti-inflammatory drug such as Benadryl. Take diet rich in multivitamins and vitamin C. Your symptoms will resolve in 4-5 days. You should give NSAID's along with paracetamol as well. If symptoms keeps on persisting visit pediatrician once and get some routine blood investigation done. You should do tepid sponging on your child's head to lower down body temperature. Avoid hot, spicy and sharp food substances. Give her steam inhalation twice a day to relieve the congestion and drink warm water with one spoon honey in it .
Hope your concern has been resolved.
Get Well Soon.
Best Wishes,
Dr. Harry Maheshwari
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