My four year old has had a fever off and on for almost two weeks. The beginning symptoms were sore throat, aching and a bad headache. All he wants to do is sleeP. I took him to the doctor last week and they did a strep test...his ears and chest were fine. Now all he wants to do is sleep. Any thoughts?
Fever that comes and goes for 2 weeks is usually starts with viral infection, possibly upper respiratory tract infection since he had sore thought, after recovering from that he may get a superimposed (on top of it)bacterial infection like strep which caused the fever to come again, a strep test is helpful.another cause of recurring fever with sore thought is reteropharyngeal abscess or peritonsillar abscess , which sometimes follow the supportive tonsillitis or thought infection, in that case the children seems sleepy, toxic, unable to eat or Chat Doctor.