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As a parent I am aware of babies and children getting low grade fevers with teeth coming in but are there any other possibilities for a phantom fever? Toddler X on occasion will get a phantom low grade fever that is not connected to any other symptom. I told this to his pediatrician today and she says that phantom fevers do occur without any symptoms such as sore throat or ear ache and if it is three days of low grade fever then she will see him. I just find it a bit bizarre. This is his second day of a phantom fever ranging from 100.8 to 101.00 and I have been giving him motrin/tylenol (switching them) to break it but there has been no other symptoms.
Years ago my 3 year old woke up screaming in the middle of the night with temp of 104. I immediately put her in the bathtub with cool water and gave her tylenol. I stayed right by her when she went back to sleep. I was going to take her to emergency room if she didn't go to sleep but I would have had to wake up a bunch of other kids too as DH was out of town.
The next day she was fine. No fever, no symptoms. I couldn't believe it. Happened only once. So what was that all about? She had absolutely no symptoms before or after such a high fever.
Years ago my 3 year old woke up screaming in the middle of the night with temp of 104. I immediately put her in the bathtub with cool water and gave her tylenol. I stayed right by her when she went back to sleep. I was going to take her to emergency room if she didn't go to sleep but I would have had to wake up a bunch of other kids too as DH was out of town.
The next day she was fine. No fever, no symptoms. I couldn't believe it. Happened only once. So what was that all about? She had absolutely no symptoms before or after such a high fever.
Oh my! 104! And she was fine the next day? The body truly baffles me.
He got his fever after dinner last night. I thought it might be the food but no other symptoms came on. I gave him tylenol and then he was up and running about till bedtime. Then he got up about 2am with the fever again, I gave him motrin, a cool drink and washed him down with a cool cloth. We watched a little telly and he fell right to sleep. I gave him tylenol in the morning (no fever but just in case) then the fever came on again sometime around 1.30 pm. I called the doctor earlier this morning to let her know and she said phantom fever.
Years ago my 3 year old woke up screaming in the middle of the night with temp of 104. I immediately put her in the bathtub with cool water and gave her tylenol. I stayed right by her when she went back to sleep. I was going to take her to emergency room if she didn't go to sleep but I would have had to wake up a bunch of other kids too as DH was out of town.
The next day she was fine. No fever, no symptoms. I couldn't believe it. Happened only once. So what was that all about? She had absolutely no symptoms before or after such a high fever.
When my daughter was 13 months old, I got a panicked call from day care saying that my DD was fine, suddenly turned blue and spiked a fever to 104. She wasn't choking on anything and was breathing fine. They immediately started cooling her down and gave her Tylenol. I had just left the office for the day when they called. I called them again on my way to check on her (about a 10 minute drive). They told me that she was feeling completely normal and her temp was back down to 98.3. When I got to the day care, she looked absolutely fine. As I went to pick her up to take her home, she started turning blue and her temp started rising again. Within a minute she was back up to 104. I grabbed some ice packs and put them around her and drove to the hospital.
By the time we got there she was normal again. As I was trying to convince the ER nurses that this was more of an emergency than the people with the sniffles (seriously the ER was filled with these people), it happened again. We ended up staying in the hospital for 3 days while they ran every test they could think of. On the 4th day they told me they hadn't found anything and since it hadn't happened in 24 hours, they were sending us home. I was glad to be going home (exhausted), but still wish to this day we had a definitive answer on what it was.
It happened about 25-30 times. It was the scariest experience of my life. Luckily, it hasn't happened since then.
On a side note, WTH were all of the people with sniffles and very basic colds doing filling up the ER. These people were killing me. Seriously, take some Nyquil and go to bed. Leave the Emergency Room for people who have an emergency. It is right in the name.
Still, to this day, I will wake up in the morning with a bump behind my ear and a little fever. I call off work/school and go back to sleep. Wake up a few hours later and I'm fine!
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