High fever ? feeling like a bad mum

[Ozziehoffy]

I hope your little man is starting to feel better and that you are too. It's not easy when they're sick. Oskar had 2 throat infections in a month not so long ago and had antibiotics too. They can be a necessary evil I think.... my doc said that cos they're so little these things can develop into other worse nasties if we don't hit them with antibiotics sometimes. As for temp, I felt the same as you do... I couldn't get it down and called my doc and he said that they can go on for days like that and keep spiking and go up and down like that on a cycle of roughly every few hours. Keep giving panadol/nurofen and you can actually use them in conjunction with one another. Panadol is a 4 hourly whereas Nurofen is 6 hourly. eg.. you might give him nurofen at 7am then panadol at 1pm and 5pm...then nurofen a few hours later before bed. I kept a notebook with the times I took temp and what it was and what time I gave panadol and nurofen. He was having nurofen usually twice a day and definitely as the one closest to bed time as it lasts longer. As the others have said, keep fluids up and if need be you can get gastrolyte iceblocks to help replenish the salts he'll be losing from vomiting and diarrhea. to you both and it's not your fault.

Oh and I just remembered... doc said keep the panadol/nurofen up to them cos I was only doing it when his temp went up and it made it harder to keep a handle on it, but once I was giving them regularly it helped to keep it under control until it went.