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What Causes Severe Intolerance To Sound When Suffering From Fever?

My son had a fever for about 24 hours, the last spike of which was around 5:00 AM. He was remarking that sounds (like the fan in my room, which was running when he came in this morning) were too loud and it was quite upsetting for him. I gave him Motrin, put him to bed, and he has been fine all day. Now, he doesn t have an elevated temp but is saying that the fan in his room (which he usually cannot sleep without--we love our white noise) is too loud. Do children experience a heightened sense of sound when they are feverish and, if so, does this heightened sense go away when the feve abates?
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yes children could be irritable when they have fever. Irritability shows up on specific activity like sound/noise,food,temperature..etc. it usually subsides along with fever and infection. Also heightened sensitivity to noise could be due fever accompanying ear infection. If your child had a blocked nose or cold the infection could spread to ear through Eustachian tube which can increase the cited symptom. Geting an ENT check up would be wiser.
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What Causes Severe Intolerance To Sound When Suffering From Fever?

yes children could be irritable when they have fever. Irritability shows up on specific activity like sound/noise,food,temperature..etc. it usually subsides along with fever and infection. Also heightened sensitivity to noise could be due fever accompanying ear infection. If your child had a blocked nose or cold the infection could spread to ear through Eustachian tube which can increase the cited symptom. Geting an ENT check up would be wiser.