What Causes Persistent Fever, Cough And Cold In A Child?

Posted on Tue, 20 Jun 2017

Question: My son is 3.5 years old. Since yesterday he is getting fever in ever 5-6 hours. Every time after giving him crocin syrup (4-5ml) fever goes and he is good until next 5-6 hours. I don't see any other symptoms of cough and cold other than fever. Fever is in the range of 101 - 102 degree F.

Could this be a general viral infection? Request for suggestion or recommendation from pediatician. Thanks.

Answered by Dr. Deepak Patel (51 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Could be viral infection

Detailed Answer:
hi, welcome to this forum. Can understand your concerns.

Fever every 4 to 5 hours without any symptom of cough and cold can be due to viral infection, common cold Malaria infection.

Sometimes it is seen in common cold that symptoms of cough or nasal discharge comes after sometime. Therefore we should also keep a diagnosis of common cold in this.

continue giving paracetamol syrup for fever every 6 hour early. Also start syrup Sinarest 5 ml 3 times a day for 3 days for common cold.

if there is no improvement in 24 hours then blood test like Malaria antigen test should be done to rule out malaria. Also an examination by doctor should also be done so that we may not miss any important finding.

I hope this will help you.
Take care.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vaishalee Punj

Follow up: Dr. Deepak Patel (53 minutes later)

Thanks Dr. XXXXXXX Do you have any recommendation for food and drink routine? Also if this is viral infection, how long it will take to cure?

Answered by Dr. Deepak Patel (5 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Avoid cold water, cold drink and cold items

Detailed Answer:
hi, welcome once again.

Viral infection usually gets cured on its own within 48 to 72 hours.

Avoid cold water, cold drink, ice cream, give child complete bed rest. Give soft diet to child and feed frequently. Give only home based food, avoid food from outside, you can give all the things that you are giving earlier but you should give it frequently and the quantity should be decreased. Soft diet will be better.

Take care.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vaishalee Punj