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What Causes Frequent Attacks Of High Fever?

hello my granddaughter is 18 months old in daycare 5 days a week. She has been sick on and off several times since last December cold pneumonia running nose. She has had a high temperature 2-3 times as high as 104 degrees but when given Tylenol fever goes down and then she is ok. What causes a high fever like this then goes away. She is otherwise healthy and happy.
Mon, 18 Aug 2014
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Thanks for putting up your query at HealthCareMagic. I understand the cause of your concern for your 18 months old grand-daughter. There can be a number of causes that causes high fever. The most common of them is infection which may be viral or bacterial. Typhoid is a very common cause of high rise of temperature where the temperature hardly reaches baseline. But that also varies with geography and I do not know where you are located. Urinary tract infection is also a very prevalent cause of high fever in children. The cause of fever needs to be investigated thoroughly especially because it is recurrent. Please consult your pediatrician and do not self-medicate.

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What Causes Frequent Attacks Of High Fever?

Thanks for putting up your query at HealthCareMagic. I understand the cause of your concern for your 18 months old grand-daughter. There can be a number of causes that causes high fever. The most common of them is infection which may be viral or bacterial. Typhoid is a very common cause of high rise of temperature where the temperature hardly reaches baseline. But that also varies with geography and I do not know where you are located. Urinary tract infection is also a very prevalent cause of high fever in children. The cause of fever needs to be investigated thoroughly especially because it is recurrent. Please consult your pediatrician and do not self-medicate. I hope that helps. Feel free to revert back with further queries if any.