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What Causes Continuous Fever For The Past One Week?
My toddler, 33 months have been having fever for the past 1 week started on 2/12 evening till today. She was having high fever for the 1st 3 days , after that her fever dropped and go off in the day. Whenever she sleeps in the night the fever will come back in midnight about 2am. The last few days fever have been coming back about 6am. Whenever she took paracetamol, the fever will go off in the day time (with continuous feeinding of paracetamol till bedtime). Please advise should we send her to the hospital for a detailed check?
Mon, 7 Jul 2014
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Fever continuously for one week needs medical attention.
She needs to be checked in detail to arrive at a diagnosis.
Typhoid has to be excluded in long duration fever s lasting for a week or more.
Hope this answer will serve your purpose
Please feel free to ask any more queries if required
Take care
Dr.M.V.Subrahmanyam MD;DCH
Associate professor of pediatrics
Thank you for asking question on health care magic.
Fever continuously for one week needs medical attention.
She needs to be checked in detail to arrive at a diagnosis.
Typhoid has to be excluded in long duration fever s lasting for a week or more.
Hope this answer will serve your purpose
Please feel free to ask any more queries if required
Take care
Dr.M.V.Subrahmanyam MD;DCH
Associate professor of pediatrics
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