Hi, may I answer your health queries right now ? Please type your query here... My 9 year old child has had a bad cough for a week. She has been running a bit of a fever as well. This morning she had a high fever, started throwing up and is crying with pain from her left shoulder area
Hi...all these non-specific symptoms are usually suggestive of viral illness. 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. Regards -