If your dc had/has the high fever virus...?

How lonmg did it last? How high did the fever get? Besides tylenol and motrin are u giving any meds?
Thanks!

Oh and if u have 2 dc's did both get it? How many days in between?

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Didn't know there was a high fever virus going on...but my DD had 105.3 or so on Sunday at 6:45 in the morning...by 11:00 it was down to 100.5 and by 1:00 it was back to normal.

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thank marcie!


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It's us today. 104 fever

PED told me it will last about 3-4 days. We are alternating motrin and tylenol per PED.

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Not sure if we had this, but we had some crazy thing going on in our house. First DS had a very high fever for 4 days. The highest reaching 104.6...he also had a very red throat wiht pus, but tested negative for strep. A few days later DD got it (not sure about the throat because I didnt take her to the doc). She was running a very high temp too. She also reached 104.6. I just used teh motrin tylenol thing. DD's fever lasted a little longer than DS's. it was horrible i felt so bad for them

Now they have coughs and DS has a really runny nose. I have no idea what kinda virus this is.

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jacen had this last year. It lasted 4-5 days. We gave him motrin at night. Nothing else.

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My younger one (DD) got it first on Sunday and then on Tuesday my older one (DS) got sent home from daycare with it. The highest temp both kids had was around 103.4 and 103.7. I took them both to the peds on Thursday- DS's illness turned into pneumonia and DD's was RSV/bronchiolitis

Before being put on antibiotics, DD only got Motrin and Tylenol. DS only had tylenol (he throws up whenever he takes Motrin).

I'm just waiting to see how long it takes before I catch it

I hope your LO gets better and the other one doesn't get it!

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DS had a fever the Saturday after Thanksgiving. He had been getting sniffly and then that day his fever went up to 104+. We just gave him Tylenol a couple of times and by Sunday morning he was down to around 99-100 and by that night it was gone.

He didn't have any more fever but we took him to the Dr. on Monday b/c of green boogies and a cough and they gave him some amoxicillian. He seemed totally over it by a few days later.

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thank you everyone! ds is going on day 4 tomorrow. his temp was just 104. i've been giving motrin/tylenol for 3 days with little break, isn't that bad?!

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william had it a little over a month ago. he was on tylenol and motrin. He winded up having a febrile seizure and his temp was 104 with the motrin already in his system about 2 hrs.

the virus lasted about a week to 10 days - the fever was the highest the first few days but he had a low grade temp the rest of the time.

hope ur little one feels better

eta: his throat was red with white spots but tested negative twice for strep. the dr said the type of white looking spots on his throat were typical with a viral infection

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Posted by LoveBeingMrsT

thank you everyone! ds is going on day 4 tomorrow. his temp was just 104. i've been giving motrin/tylenol for 3 days with little break, isn't that bad?!

Posted by missrock
First DS had a very high fever for 4 days. The highest reaching 104.6...he also had a very red throat wiht pus, but tested negative for strep.

this is exactly ds. 104.5 was the highest. red throat with pus but neg for strep.
i pray my older ds doesn't get it. he throws up when he's sick constantly AND his holiday show is next week.

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104.7 this morning. DH will bring DS to the ER if he breaks 105.

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DD is now on Day 8 of fever. The highest it has been is 102.6° and she did test positive for strep last Saturday, but negative for flu on Thursday. Last night she woke up soaking wet and we changed her pjs - I was so hoping it meant the fever finally broke, but no such luck as right now she is running 101.9°.

ETA: She was given antibiotics for the strep, and all I've been using is tylenol b/c it is having immediate effect.

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Yup.

Day 1 up to 103.1

Day 2, 3 & 4 up to 105.9 two times each day

Day 5 & 6 as high as 103.5 & as low as 99.1

Day 7 mostly hovered around 99.1 but up to 103 around dinner time

Day 8 today....he is still lounging in bed with DH sono temp taken yet.


Alternating tylenol & motrin. 1st few days we did the piggybacking thing with them. In the 1st few night we woke him to give him doses of it. The last 2 nights we did not wake him.

He is PLENTY hydrated thank goodness but has eaten minimal food since last Saturday.

No other symptoms at all. Just veyr lethargic when the fever goes over 101.