JOURNAL A Medical Mysteryposted on 06/15/2008 On Thursday afternoon when I picked up Meredith from daycare, her teachers said that she had been very uneasy all day. I noticed that she felt very hot! I took her temperature when we got home, and it was 102. She continued to have a fever the next day and into the night, which we controlled with Tylenol, but because she seemed to be her happy self most of the time (just a bit more sleepy) and showed no other symptoms, we weren't too concerned. At 9PM on Friday I noticed that she was burning up, and her temperature was 105.3! A page to the pediatrician later, we gave her a lukewarm bath and Tylenol and had instructions to take her to the ER if her temperature didn't drop below 102 within the hour. At an hour it was 101.7. So we waited out the night and took her to the Urgent Care Center yesterday morning. Poor baby had to endure some tests - a catheter placement to get a urine sample and a blood draw - to rule out a urinary tract or kidney infection. With no real explanation for the high fever, the pediatrician hypothesizes that in a day or two Meredith will break out in a rash that disappears within 24 hours, a sure sign of Roseola. We won't really know until she gets a rash though! Meredith hasn't had a fever at all for almost a whole day so we're not sure at what point it's okay for her to join other kids. In the meantime, we're making sure that she gets plenty of rest and fluids. |
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