Hi Mom's,
My son has had a cold and fever for 5 days now. I took him to the dr yesterday and he said he just has a cold and sometimes the virus can cause a fever! His 1st eight teeth he ran a fever and had a runny nose. The 4 molars he did not. Now i found he is cutting at least 3 of his eye teeth. The top 2 and at least one on the bottom. My question is do you think that these signs are signs of him cutting eye teeth or something else. His fever is around 102.oo and goes down to like 99 with motrin or tylenol! HELP!!!!
We are always told that we shouldn't worry unless 1) the fever doesn't come down with ibuprofen or acetaminophen (sometimes one works and the other does, you can use them alternately ever 2 hours), 2) it get above 103, 3) it lasts more than 72 hours.
Also, try a bath.
Had this problem with my daughter, she cut eye teeth and canine teeth all at the same time. Fevers, runny bowels, runny nose, miserable for all of us for about a week. Once the teeth finally all came in the symptoms cleared up. What a pain, sigh.
This is so ironic because we just went through this last week! I took him to the Dr. twice and they said it is just a virus. However, my son's fever was up as high as 103 and as low as 99.9 on some days. If it is consistently high (anything over 101) after 7 days then he needs to be seen again and it is probably an infection.
