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What Causes Fever In 20 Month Old Inspite Of Medication?

Hi, my daughter is 20 months old and weighs 10.7kg.she has been running highfever since last nightalong with vommiting. my doc has prescribed onden, zifi and crocin. after giving crocin also the fever has not come down. I was asked to give meftal if she still has high fever. what i want to know is after how long(hours) can i give meftal. crocin was given at 8pm, and even after 4 hours the fever is 102.6
Wed, 26 Jul 2017
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Hi, thanks for the question. there are different ways to give them. i usually advice patients to give crocin every 6 hourly. once you give crocin wait for an hour to see if fever subsides if it is not coming down then give meftal. and the other way is if temperature becomes normal and then child develops fever again before next dose of crocin (suppose say 2-3 hrs before next dose of crocin) then give meftal instead of crocin. you can rotate the both of them and you should try to maintain a gap of atleast 5-6 hrs between every dose of either meftal or crocin. the other way is give crocin every 6hrs for example 6am, 12pm, 6pm, 12am and meftal every 6hrs at these timings 10am, 4pm, 10pm, 4am.
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What Causes Fever In 20 Month Old Inspite Of Medication?

Hi, thanks for the question. there are different ways to give them. i usually advice patients to give crocin every 6 hourly. once you give crocin wait for an hour to see if fever subsides if it is not coming down then give meftal. and the other way is if temperature becomes normal and then child develops fever again before next dose of crocin (suppose say 2-3 hrs before next dose of crocin) then give meftal instead of crocin. you can rotate the both of them and you should try to maintain a gap of atleast 5-6 hrs between every dose of either meftal or crocin. the other way is give crocin every 6hrs for example 6am, 12pm, 6pm, 12am and meftal every 6hrs at these timings 10am, 4pm, 10pm, 4am.