my 6.5 year old child is having pain on neck and legs (muscular) and is running high fever (102) since yesterday night. i gave him 8 ml of crocin ds but the fever did not come down. then i gave him 8 ml of meftal p susp and his fever and pain came down. again he gets fever after 5 hrs. he weighs 25kg. doctor pls tell how long should i give this medicine and what is his problem
Hi...what your kid is having viral illness along with myositis or inflammation or swelling of the muscle which is quite common during high fever like this. This will subside once the viral fever subsides. METAL CONTAINS METONYMIC ACID WHICH IS A NSAID. IT CARRIES THE RISK OF GASTRITIS AND RENAL PROBLEMS IN THE LONG RUN. PLEASE DO NOT USE METAL. Fever of few days without any localizing signs could as well a viral illness. Usually rather than fever, what is more important is the activity of the child, in between 2 fever episodes on the same day. If the kid is active and playing around when there is no fever, it is probably viral illness and it doesn't require antibiotics at all. Once viral fever comes it will there for 4-7 days. So do not worry about duration if the kid is active. Use only plain Paracetamol for fever. Regards -