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Is It Normal For A Child With Fever To Sleep Excessively?
What should I do I have a 6 year old daughter she has been throwing up for 2 days , fever for 2 days,wont do anything but sleep , has not been able to hold any thing, not even water, down everytime we try to give her some medicine or food or anything she says she don't want it ,but I keep making her try but she just throws it back up . she has pooped on herself , while asleep in bed. But her poop looks like mucus and clear in color . Her eyes are black like she hasn't slept but she has for 2 days straight she has said her stomach hurt that is all I can get out of her . what could this be could it be a stomach virus. what should I do
Though fever is associated with some increase in metabolic actvity of the body and therefore the child may sleep, but excessive sleep with fever is suggestive of some serious infection(may be involving brain) and your daughter should be investigated by blood tests and urine examination.
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Is It Normal For A Child With Fever To Sleep Excessively?
Though fever is associated with some increase in metabolic actvity of the body and therefore the child may sleep, but excessive sleep with fever is suggestive of some serious infection(may be involving brain) and your daughter should be investigated by blood tests and urine examination.