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Why Is The Temperature Not Going Down After Taking Antibiotic?

my son has fever for two nights and 1 day now, we brought him to a physician lastnight and one of the medicine she prescribed is an antibiotic. observing constantly my son's temperature last night and up this early morning, we noticed that his temperature did not subside from 39 degrees. Is it because of the antibiotic that he's taking that the temperature does not go down?

Tue, 29 Apr 2014
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Hello,
Welcome to HCM,

As your son is having fever from one day for which you have admitted in the hospital and the doctor is monitoring his body temperature regularly and he has been prescribed antibiotics.

The antibiotics will not increase the body temp. it will control any infection present in the body which is leading to fever in your son. The antibiotics will help to fight against the infection and control the mediators of fever.

I hope he would have been prescribed paracetamol which will reduce the fever along with the antibiotics which will combat any infection present in the body. It is a false notion that the antibiotics will increase the fever contrary it will reduce the fever.
Thank you.
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Why Is The Temperature Not Going Down After Taking Antibiotic?

Hello, Welcome to HCM, As your son is having fever from one day for which you have admitted in the hospital and the doctor is monitoring his body temperature regularly and he has been prescribed antibiotics. The antibiotics will not increase the body temp. it will control any infection present in the body which is leading to fever in your son. The antibiotics will help to fight against the infection and control the mediators of fever. I hope he would have been prescribed paracetamol which will reduce the fever along with the antibiotics which will combat any infection present in the body. It is a false notion that the antibiotics will increase the fever contrary it will reduce the fever. Thank you.