High Fever - Rock Hill,SC

If it goes back up, take your son to a hospital that has a pediatric emergency room. If it stays around 99.9, that's considered a low grade fever and I would consult with your doctor. Any time your son has a fever of 104, get him to the ER as fast as you can and call your child's doctor to let them know where you are going. 104-105 is where the brain starts to die which can cause brain damage. A fever this high for such a long period of time can indicate something other than Pneumonia. When I was a baby, I kept spiking high fevers and was really sick and my doctor just told my mom (for 2 months) that it was a cold and finally, she stopped believing him and took me to Mott's Children's Hospital where I was diagnosed with severe Pneumonia and was in the PICU for almost a week while the doctors got me stabilized; had she waited another 24 hours, she would have been burying me.

Follow your instincts! I hope your little one feels better and I wish you luck.

I would absolutely take him to the doctor in the morning. Since your pediatrician has not seen him yet and is his regular care giver, I'd be surprised if he wouldn't want to see him to make sure all the work-ups with ER and triage nurses had been accurate.

Rocephin is one of the most powerful antibiotics available and is usually reserved for last-line treatments or for serious infections. It is a good antibiotic, but it sounds like the infection has really taken its toll. I'm a little surprised, with the febrile episodes the way they've been, that they didn't admit him to the hospital for observation.

If it were my child, I'd be in the MD's office first thing in the morning even if all is better.

Good luck. I hope he's better and past the worst of this infection.

Keep an eye on it.
Take him to the Doctor, for a follow-up. That is typically what is done anyway.
It is Pneumonia... so that is serious.
Some antibiotics will/will not work and another family of antibiotics then needs to be prescribed.
that is what happened to my Mom, when she got Pneumonia.
Keep an eye on it....
He has been on the antibiotics for almost 5 days already...
Bear in mind, that the lungs takes time to heal completely.... and relapses can occur... so, keep an eye on him.

The inhaler and ibuprofen, does not 'cure' the Pneumonia, but helps the labored breathing and lowering of the fever. NOT that the illness is gone... it just diminishes, temporarily, the discomfort.

all the best,
Susan

did they test to make sure it was bacterial. pneumonia can be viral in which case antibiotics wouldn't do any good.

Did they culture his sputum to see what antibiotic was best? Did they say there was any possibility it was viral pneumonia? Those are the questions I would be asking. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that it doesn't spike again, but if it does, I'd probably want a different antibiotic and culture to determine the best one for his type of infection.

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D., Please tell me that they did a chest Xray on him??? It sounds strikingly similar to what we went through with my 14 mo old son who had a strep Pneumonia that was a majorly antibiotic resistant strain. he ended up having lung surgery after they diagnosed an empyema on chest xray. His fever finally recovered after 2 days on Vancomycin therapy. We were in hospital for 9 days and it was quite the ordeal. Please contact me if you end up being diagnosed with it- the good news is that he did recover very nicely once they figured out what the bug was (9 days on IV Vanco followed by 14 days of Zyvox PO- which tastes like hell.

i would take him anyway just to be sure