Suggest Treatment For Persistent High Fever In A Child

Posted on Mon, 19 Dec 2016

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Question : Hi
My baby is 9 months old now weighing 7.8 kgs. She was admitted last month because of high fever about 104*. My padea had conducted test on her for which i have attached a file. And was remain on antibiotics about 10 days.I wanna know about these test. And is there any infection was there ? Now a days she again having fever around 99.5*. I don know why her fever 8s coming back again. My padea again given antibiotics for 3 days. I am very worried that so much antibiotics can harm her organs.

Answered by Dr. Diptanshu Das (44 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Likely to be viral. Enteric fever needs to be ruled out

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on Health care magic.

I have gone through your query but unfortunately do not find any attachment. Could you please reattach it? Most often, such fevers are due to viral infections where antibiotics are ineffective. I would insist you to ask your doctor to rule out enteric fever.

If given in right dose antibiotics would not cause any harm to her body.

Regards

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