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What Causes Fever In Back, Neck And Belly In A 9 Month Old?

My son is 9 months and 10 days old. He is suffering from fever 102-103F since 3 days. The fever type is looking strange i.e head, neck, back side of belly, hand and feet.all other body part are cold. His eys are swelled and he is off feed. Now his chest is getting infected as he is coughing now which is of dry type. When we give antipyretic, for few hours temperature become normal but after that again rised up. on Doctor sugesstions, we giving antipyretic and cefixime antibiotic but this this 3rd day with temperature. kindly advise me.
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Hello, welcome to the forum, From your history it seems to be infection, may be viral or bacterial. But a moderate grade fever which continues for 3 days and with no focus of infection demarcated, I would get the baby evaluated with blood tests, and then decide on starting antibiotics if required. If babies activity is good, no sick looking baby, it may very well be just a viral infection which will require only symptomatic medication. While giving child antipyretic, please be sure to even wipe the baby from top to bottom with normal tap water, to normalize the temperature earlier. Give the child lot of fluids and keep him dehydrated. Nevertheless, consultation is required.
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What Causes Fever In Back, Neck And Belly In A 9 Month Old?

Hello, welcome to the forum, From your history it seems to be infection, may be viral or bacterial. But a moderate grade fever which continues for 3 days and with no focus of infection demarcated, I would get the baby evaluated with blood tests, and then decide on starting antibiotics if required. If babies activity is good, no sick looking baby, it may very well be just a viral infection which will require only symptomatic medication. While giving child antipyretic, please be sure to even wipe the baby from top to bottom with normal tap water, to normalize the temperature earlier. Give the child lot of fluids and keep him dehydrated. Nevertheless, consultation is required. Disclaimer: This provisional advice provided by me stands subject to the actual examination of reports/image and is based entirely on inputs provided to me. It should be correlated with clinical findings