Hi, my little girl of 2 years 5months has been getting sick on and off for the past two months. I m in Ghana a tropical country and the most common disease affecting babies here is malaria fever. My girl has been treated of this and was a was ok for some few days but went back to the same symptoms again. Normally the symptoms shown are high temperatures, especially in the night, cold and cough, cartar, lost of appetite vormiting of mucous. What could be the possible reason for her ailment. Doctors only did one thorough test on her which proved to have malaria parasites to which was treated. However, after being well for only two weeks the symptoms are back but all the malaria treatments given only stop the disease for about a week and comes back.
Hello, This might be viral illness as your kid has already been treated for Malaria which is endemic there; 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 a viral illness and it doesn't require antibiotics at all.  Once the viral fever comes it will there for 4-7 days. So do not worry about duration if the kid is active. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Take care Chat Doctor.