Since June 20th my two year old daughter has had a reocurring fever on four seperate occassions. They get as high as in the 103's and last several days. This last time they finally put her on antibiotics, she is one day away of being done with her antibiotic and she woke with another fever today. She acts fairly normal, drinks plenty, eats ok, no visible rash. Could this high of a fever that reocurrs so frequently be associated with molar teeth? I'm starting to get a bit freaked out. Has this happened to anyone else?
I appreciatd any and all help.
Thank you.
103 is pretty high to blame on teething. I would bring her back to the doctor to be sure it's not something else.
My daughter always has had such a high pain tolerance that we would have trouble recognizing what was wrong - for instance, the one time she had a double ear infection the doctor said she should be screaming, but all she had was a fever with no other symptoms.
Both of my kids run fevers when they have teeth coming in. The majority of the Dr's say this isn't so but what else could it be especially when they get older and they can tell you what is going on and they have a fever. Went to an older Dr, almost retiring age, he said, yep having teeth coming in that is causing the fever. We ended up giving liquid motrin and it stopped the fever and the pain. Happy child again. I would give tylenol, motrin or whatever you use for pain/fever and see if that helps anything especially since there doesn't seem to be any reason for it. If he develops other symptoms, like ear pulling or running nose I would get your child to a Dr. Hope this helps... sometimes moms know more than the Dr does.
What about Lyme disease (or another tick related infection)? Been anywhere where there could have been deer ticks? Not all people get the typical rash, in fact I think it is only one in three that get a rash at all. My son got it when he was three, but we did find the deer tick attached, so knew to be on the lookout for symptoms...and sure enough he was positive. Mostly higher fevers, aches, and loss of appetite. He did get a rash, but not the typical "bulls-eye" rash. I recently had Lyme disease and didn't have any rash at all even though I found the deer tick attached. Good luck, it does seem like there is something more than teething going on. Trust your instincts!
Has she been checked for a UTI, maybe even double checked? My daughter had recurrent relatively high fevers with no other symptoms a couple of years ago. They checked her for a UTI - negative. A month later she was hospitalized for something called Kowasaki's disease (because they couldn't explain her fever any other way.) They did another urine culture and, after scaring me half to death by putting my "baby" in the hospital, it turned out it WAS a UTI after all.
my daughter went thru the same thing time an time again...many er visits an dr.appts.no answers-so i just treated her with tylenol-it stopped at about age 5 if i recall-my son never went thru this...
Hi A.!
I can imagine how worried u must be ... It's horrible when they get sick!
Well ... I am a dentist and I hv to tell you that teething doesn't cause fever. So you might ask so why a lot of people say it does!? Well... Usually teething happens when babies are really active, on the floor crawling and putting everything on their mouths. So they get exposed to germs that leads to infection and fever.
I would investigate Closely this fever... Don't blame it on teething.
