what can you do to ease pain/discomfort your baby has from fever & associated symptoms? My 10 1/2 month old son has a fever since yesterday. I have called his pediatrician but today the office is closed. I won’t be able to take him until tomorrow.
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you wanna try and bring the temp below 102 (if it’s higher), u can do that by placing the baby in room temp water to cool the body. However, you pediatrician should have an afterhours or emergency number where he/she can be reached. Also it’s important to remember that fever isn’t necessarily a bad thing, fever occurs when an invader such a bacteria or other harmful elements enter body, at this point your immune system send a signal to the body to increase its temperature because certain bacteria cannot survive the hot temps, and thus results in them being killed off immediately.
You should take the temp first.
This should help (temporarily)…but i suggest u do try n get hold of a professional or better yet ur own pediatrician.
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Thanks, Yeah i had called the # and reached the answering service, they paged the doctor & he called me back. He told me to give children's tylenol 1/2 dose only if the fever is 101 or greater, dont wanna overdo as it can cause liver damage. I have been making sure to keep him hydrated, and hubby is also making sure to keep him hydrated and dressed OK. The doc said to bring him in tomorrow. I guess I was concerned..i think he's getting 2 more teeth cutting thru...that might be why
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it's possible. :) i'm glad u found proper help though
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aww ..
baby in fever.. hold him in ur lappy.. and kiss him// sachi that helps.. whenever my kids got sick.. i would hold them and kiss them for hourssss //and place my hand on their foreheads and when the hand got too hot from the fever heat i would replace it with the other hand. many nights i did this when my boys were younger... it does bring the fever down.. 'mother's touch' :)
and before anyone yells at me
yea yea take the baby to a doc too
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Urgh. Doc said its viral & said it will go away in few days. He wants me to give baby tylenol only when fever is above 101 degrees F. Grr. He doesnt want to overdo the tylenol as it causes liver damage when over used, khair. poor thing, it goes a little down and then shoots back up. He was a bit better this morning, no signs of high fever and his temp was down to 99...Alhumdulillah. Hope he is better soon. Thanks :)
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My Son had a fever last week, luckily it went away within hours, he was grumpy thru out the day but everything is good now, i held him the entire day and i also gave him water mixed with a lil bit of honey :) no tylenol or anything
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Well my baby had fever for most of the week and then he broke out in this red blotchy rash...which the doctor said is called Roseola. It seemed like measles to me, but i guess he's too young for measles..heck what do i know! :(
Anyways doc said it would go away on its own..i HOPE!!! At least he doesn't have fever anymore :)
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aww, atleast fever is gone.
roseola? havent heard of this, my son got Excemia and everyone around me kept telling me its baby acne, its always good to get baby checked out.
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Glad to hear baby is better :)
Just a note, its not a good idea to give an infant under age 1 year honey - even if its a tiny amount and especially when immune system is compromised! Honey contains trace amounts of botulism spores and while the amount is minute and doesnt typically affect older children, its sometimes enough to severely affect infants.
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Mamaof3,
I always wondered about hoeny. When baby was born my parents wanted to feed him a drop of honey, as the tradition is to give baby something sweet. I did not let them due to the botulism scare.
What I am curious about is that most babies back home in the motherland are given honey at a young age and I have not heard of any cases of botulism? That just has me curious
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A-s, the amount of spore in honey is miniscule and will affect something like 1 in 100, 000 babies. Thats a very small percentage, yeah? So give 100k babies honey and just one of them will develop full-blown botulism. The thing is though, that its deadly so why take the chance. Same thing with SIDS, theres a very low percentage of all babies who die from it but since they now know that sleeping on their back prevents it, they want ALL babies to sleep on their backs. If it prevents even a couple of baby deaths, its worth it. Anyway, I think botulism may be under-reported esp in places like pak. Baby gets fever and diarhea so bad that baby dies - poor people and heck I think even middle class wouldnt go rushing to test for botulism yeah? Its just something better avoided till after 1st bday and in the meantime, plain ole sugar will do!