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Suggest Treatment For Fever In A Child

hi my daughter is 9months, and she is having fever of 102.3 now, i gave her suppository but after 15minutes she had a bowel movement. well more like diarhia, and the fever is not going down actually up. can i give her advil syrup if she had suppository a hour ago?
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If all the medicine in suppository come out , you can repeat it, or can give oral medicine . In any case you can always do tepid sponging to bring down fever .
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Suggest Treatment For Fever In A Child

If all the medicine in suppository come out , you can repeat it, or can give oral medicine . In any case you can always do tepid sponging to bring down fever .