my little man has a temp of 39.5 so took him 2 the docs and got given calpol and penicilin.. has any1 elses LO had a really high temp recently?? xx

Awww poor little man,

My little one hasn't had a temp recently (touch wood) but my eldest was terrible when he was teething, each tooth brought a chest infection and high temps, but now at 12 he's fine.

Hope he gets better soon

Not recently i dont think i have ever done noahs temp and got it quite so high. I hope it comes down soon.

Char

thanks.. im really worried bout him. hes literally slept all day (even on my kner in docs waitin room) which isnt like him! and hes in bed now like normal but i keepnhave 2 go and check him.. hte it wen hea poorly! xx

Not recently (touch wood) but early last year Bethany's hit 40.2, I took her to hospital and she had a throat infection, was given anti-biotics and I think the temp finally went after about 2 days. It usually takes about 24-48 hours for the tablets to get into the system. Also, you can alternate calpol with ibuprofen, I did it every four hours.
Hope your little man is ok soon.
xx

LesleyandBethany wrote:

Not recently (touch wood) but early last year Bethany's hit 40.2, I took her to hospital and she had a throat infection, was given anti-biotics and I think the temp finally went after about 2 days. It usually takes about 24-48 hours for the tablets to get into the system. Also, you can alternate calpol with ibuprofen, I did it every four hours.
Hope your little man is ok soon.
xx

Just read this back, sorry I meant it takes 24048 hours for anti-biotics to get into the system not tablets!!

Its the start of the season for allsorts now. Regular calpol and ibuprofen will take care of it and dont freak if it doesnt go totallyback to normal, under 38.5 is fine. Its the body fighting infection.

Im a wicked mother I kept C at home with a temp of 40.6 before now as I knew it was viral and figured they would only do what I was doing at home if i went to hossie

Thankfully, touch wood, Izzy hasn't been ill like that for almost a year when she was really ill and had to have an inhaler.
Im sure she had a temp when she was sick in Cornwall but I didnt have a thermometre, wouldnt have been really high though

bless him , i assume they told you why they gave him penicillin ?

hope he gets better soon xx

Oh poor baby, I hope he feels better soon
Milo had a fever just over 40 degrees when he was a little over a year old, with a viral infection, he had antibiotics but he did take a couple of days to get back to normal - about 24/36 hours for the fever to completely come down, then another day or so until he was back to his normal bouncy self. Hang on in there, it's horrible when they're sick isn't it.

antibiotics for a viral infection ?

our docs will not give out anti bs for a viral thing , paracetomal/ ibuprofen is the treatment for that here
hence why i asked lucy about doc must have said why they gave them ,,,

maybe im wrong i am no medic after all

No antibiotics wont do anythying for a viral infection they only fight bacteria. Viral infections have to just run their course. TBH it sucks at the time but most of these things naturally burn themselves out, like i say thats what a temp is for. Having a high temp in itself isnt actually horrifically dangerous its only when it spikes really suddenly its a problem. In terms of temperature related fits which is what scares people its safer to have a high temp for a while than one that shoots up rapidly from normal

ahh i see thanks..they gave him penicilin cos they think he may have an ear infection but arent completly sure. he just said to see how he is 2day and if still no better then start him on it! he still asleep now bless him and he slept alll day yesterday and went to bed at 7 last night. he may be sleeping it off! xx

how is he this morning ? nothing worse that an ill child xx

mario , when i had my first i had no clue about this fitting from temp business , it was when my son was a baby and got a temp my dad drummed it into me basically put the fear of death into me over fitting , i think it happened to my brother and scared him so he passed his fears onto me , he used to say to me you cannot sleep you have to watch him all night and from that day on whenever any of mine are ill i am lucky if i sleep a couple of hours because of the worry x

yeee i got told about that yesterday so had me panikin! hes a little better 2day, not got a temp anymore but still very dopey looking and sleepy! got a feeling getteing ready for work is gonna be a struggle! x x

their is a viral infection going around hun my eldest was exactly the same a last week and shes still not 100 per cent my other 3 kids only have sore throats at the moment.xxxx hope he gets better soon.xxx

thats what my gp give aswell was antibotics cos they couldnt been sure wether she had another infection or not i was more worried that it might of been another kidney infection.xxxxx.

Callums been like this for the past 3days temperture, sleeping all the time, off food and just doesnt wanna do anything but lay there. Today hes started moving and playing abit more x

My mum works in the chemist and she said there so many viral infections at the moment and doctors are sending people away telling to just give calpol or nurofen x

ye thats all they do so not much point in goin we were ther nearly 2 hours waitin to see the doc and all he said was keep giving him
calpol! xx

Aww bless him, hope he's on the mend now! Also hope your first day at work was ok! x

aww no

paige had a temp of 39 yesterday n was sick. but is alot better now. im hoping its a 24 hour thing