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Suggest Remedy For Fever, Chills, Body Pains And Headache

Posted on Fri, 18 Sep 2015

Question: hi, my daughter came home from camp on friday...since then she has been very tired (expected) and yesterday she had a low low fever..99.1 Right now it is at 102.4. She feels warm but is chilly, very achy and has a horrible headache...I gave her three rounds of advil and the fever keeps climbing...she is asleep right now. thoughts on what to do?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Pradeep Kumar Jain (22 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
continue giving advil and get investigated for malaria

Detailed Answer:
Hello

I can understand your concern.
The fever and headache may be due to some viral infection or due to some malaria or other infection.
I viral infection fever starts declining after 2-3 days.
Fever with chills and headache with recent history of camping also may be due to malaria.
In case of malaria she will need antimalarial medication.
I would suggest you to continue giving advil.Do tepid sponging.Monitor the temperature so that we can assess the trend of fever.
Get her evaluated by a physician and get malaria test done.

Please let me know if you have any more query.
Regards

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