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Fever, high (over 103.5 F)
Fever, high (over 103.5 F)
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
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A 36-year old female asked:
I use diclofenac sodium supp for my kid every 12 hours when high fever is that ok to be given over five days ?
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A 37-year old female asked about a male:
My 5 year old has had five 24-48 hr high fevers in the last 3 months. (Not including when he had chicken pox and covid). GP says this is normal and wont do further investigations. Do you agree this is normal? It seems like excessive illness?
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A 30-year old asked:
My five year old has been with high fever of up to 104. Shesuffers from asthma and gets seizures from high fever.She also has a runny nose, is coughing and is vomitingnon-stop. What should I do?
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A member asked:
Sore throat fever headache flu like severe body aches every other week for five months. Lil high ketones strep negative mono negative all blood fine.
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A 24-year old female asked:
Extremely sore throat for five days, high fever, headache, now I'm coughing up yellow mucus and feel short of breath. What is this?
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A 33-year old asked:
Fever for five days and elevated heart rate. Is this the flu?
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A 33-year old male asked:
I'm having a fever more than 9 days now and temperature is high in night upto 102F and afternoon its mild b/w 99 - 99.5 F.
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A 19-year old female asked:
I have been having high fevers for almost three years now, ranging from 99.5 to 103. All of my blood work has come back normal? Any suggestions?
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A 31-year old female asked:
I had fever my RBC is slightly high 5.75 is anything to worry?
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A 42-year old asked:
What is considered to be too high of a fever in a 5 year old child?
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A 18-year old female asked:
How high should I let my fever get before taking medication? It's at 102.5 now.
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A 23-year old female asked:
My daughter is 4, she is fine during the day but at night, she gets really high fevers. Is this serious? Last night her fever got up to 104.5
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A 51-year old male asked:
24 mths old daughter is diagnosed with Chronic benign neutrophenia 0.4 K/Cumm. When ill her fever sudd climbs V high upto 104 F.could it be related?
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A 28-year old asked:
My 21mo daughter gets high fevers when sick. Temp gets bt 103-104 she's still pretty happy, but much higher, she's lethargic until meds work. Worried?
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A 20-year old asked:
I am 14 years of age and the fever is 103.2 I dont know if its right because I dont feel its that high just yesterday it was 102 and it was way worse ?
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A 24-year old asked:
What does it mean if your child has very green diaria, he has been sick for the past 5 days with high fever.?
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A male asked:
My TLC Is High (11800) and Neutrophils is 78 is there any risk of serious disease. Pls tell me Asap I have 102.f fever?
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A 18-year old female asked about a male:
Hi good evening, may i know why my son has a high fever? What can be causes of having it? As of the moment he's at 39.5
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A 27-year old female asked:
Pls tell me children high fever 103 and 104 tretment and soultion?
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A 43-year old asked:
What should we do about our childs frequent high fevers (100+)?
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A 22-year old male asked:
Can a high fevers be contagious for #9 year olds?
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A 26-year old asked:
My husband has a fever of 100. How much is to high?
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A 45-year old female asked about a male:
Is 101.4 fever to high for a 6 year old?
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A 41-year old asked:
How high can a fever be to cause hallucination?
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A 30-year old asked:
Is a fever of 99.3 for a 3 month old, too high?
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A 41-year old asked:
How high must a fever be to cause hallucinations?
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A 42-year old asked:
How high a fever before I get to stay home from school?
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A 47-year old asked:
When can high fevers cause neurological or nerve problems?
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A 32-year old female asked:
How high of a fever should I send my 7yr old to the emergency?
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A 32-year old asked:
What causes a consistently high body temperature aside from a fever?
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