my 8 month old daughter is having 103 degree temperature under the arm, she is teething the top front, has a runny nose that is a little yellowish. She started having the high temp this morning around 5am and I gave her tylenol .04ml and that helped a little bit made fever go down to about 99 degrees but the next time I gave her medicine it was childrens ibuprophin 1/2 tsp it stayed down fairly low in around 100-101 however by later tonight her fever has gone back up to 103 it went down a little bit about an hour after i gave her another dose of ibuprophin but that only lasted about two hours. What should I do?
Hi, If she don't have cough / breathing difficulty, is playful in between fever and feeding well, you need not worry now-this indicates an upper respiratory infection. Continue Tylenol every 6 hours, and give ibuprofen also if no relief after 1 hour(maximum 3 times a day) for 2 days. If fever persists beyond 48 hours, she develops cough / breathing difficulty or become lethargic with poor feeding, kindly take her to doctor for need of antibiotic therapy. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further.