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1.2 Year Old Kid, Suffering From Fever, High During Night, Cough. Taking Medications. Advice?
My son is 1.2 years old having fever and cough for last 3 days , our doctor prescribed calopol 120 - 5ml, ventrolin 2.5 ml, timinic cold 3ml, problem is still cough is there and he is getting high fever tonight it was 104. To control the high fever dr prescribed meftal p 5ml, with calpol the fever is not controllable, so I have given meftal p yester day noon and judt five minutes back when his fever was 104, and now the fever is reduced, why the fever is comming recurrently, and most of the time it is high in the night and his head is very hot. I askef the doctor whether we should do a blood test and he said not required, is it ok? Pleasr advice
Thu, 22 Aug 2013
Hi,
Thank you for your query.
I can understand your concern about the fever. It shall take some time for the fever to come down and both Calpol amd Medtal P are to reduce the temperature and not to control it. If the fever persists for another day or two then only will the doctor decide to do a blood test.
It is common for the head to remain warmer than the rest of the body. You may like to go through the blog on this issue at http://vardaan.net/blog/?p=23.
I hope I have answered your query to your satisfaction.
Wishing your son an early recovery.
Regards,
Rajiv K Khandelwal
http://goo.gl/SuCjl
Thank you for your query.
I can understand your concern about the fever. It shall take some time for the fever to come down and both Calpol amd Medtal P are to reduce the temperature and not to control it. If the fever persists for another day or two then only will the doctor decide to do a blood test.
It is common for the head to remain warmer than the rest of the body. You may like to go through the blog on this issue at http://vardaan.net/blog/?p=23.
I hope I have answered your query to your satisfaction.
Wishing your son an early recovery.
Regards,
Rajiv K Khandelwal
http://goo.gl/SuCjl
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Your doctor is giving right treatment but it is only symptomatic treatment.High grade fever suggest some active infection and for that you have to start proper antibiotic like amoxy/clavulinic syp. under guidance of his doctor.
Go for certain investigation like cbc,urine and x-ray chest to rule out diagnosis and proper treatment.
Your doctor is giving right treatment but it is only symptomatic treatment.High grade fever suggest some active infection and for that you have to start proper antibiotic like amoxy/clavulinic syp. under guidance of his doctor.
Go for certain investigation like cbc,urine and x-ray chest to rule out diagnosis and proper treatment.
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