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Why Does My Toddler Have High Fever?

My 4 year old daughter has had a severe headache, on the top of her head she says, has been spiking fevers to 105 degrees and won t drink water, juice anything to help me reduce the fever. She does not have strep, negative test yesterday, no sore throat, runny nose or painful ears and we ve had her on alternate courses of generic tylenol and motrin which brings the fever down to 101 or 102 but up it goes again and the headache is almost always there. This had been happening since the wee hours of Wednesday morning and I don t know what else to do. Any suggestions?
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Fever with headache could be caused by falciparum malaria or some bacterial infection affecting the nervous system (meningitis) - both of which could be serious. Although viral fevers could also present with high fever, body ache and headache, the serious conditions need to be ruled out first and I would strongly recommend that you visit a pediatrician immediately.

As of now tepid sponging and tylenol will help in reducing the temperature. Meftal P is more effective than tylenol but is a prescription medicine and I would suggest that you get it prescribed by your pediatrician.
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Why Does My Toddler Have High Fever?

Fever with headache could be caused by falciparum malaria or some bacterial infection affecting the nervous system (meningitis) - both of which could be serious. Although viral fevers could also present with high fever, body ache and headache, the serious conditions need to be ruled out first and I would strongly recommend that you visit a pediatrician immediately. As of now tepid sponging and tylenol will help in reducing the temperature. Meftal P is more effective than tylenol but is a prescription medicine and I would suggest that you get it prescribed by your pediatrician.