Repeat High Fever for 1 Year Old

I'm sorry youre having trouble with your little girl. I know what it's like to be in your situation. My son (8 months) was diagnosed with kidney stones, but we have yet to find out why he is forming them. He gets unexplainable fevers sometimes...they usually hit around 102-103 and last for a day or two. His nephrologist said that they could be due to his stones. So...to be on the safe side, make sure they check her kidneys and at least rule out the posibility of stones. (My son also had no other symptoms, his stone was found on an xray he had when they were checking him for pneumonia during one of his unexplained fevers!)

It could really be anything. I know it is very very hard not to worry about your kids but try to keep some sanity for her sake and yours. Ive learned that its best to think positive and not think about all the things it could potentially be, you'll just drive yourself crazy!
I hope this helped a little.

Good Luck and God Bless!! Keep us updated!

You are doing the right thing by consulting a specialist since this appears to be chronic. You want to make sure that when you go to the specialist you ask a lot of questions. Make sure that they are running tests to determine the root so that you are given a proper diagnoses. Children can run fevers but when they are chronic or on the high side the best thing to do is not to make assumptions and seek the advice of a person who specializes in pediatric care. As a mom I can tell you that you want to be sure that when she is spiking a fever that you are not bundling her up as that will cause her body temperature to rise. You want to dress her in lightweight clothing and if you want to cover her up use something that is lightweight.

I would assume some bloodwk is in order to see if there is an infection internally since there's no other symptoms. what kind of specialist are you going to?
A fever is to fight infection usually, I don't give my kids ibuprofen or anything to bring down a fever since it has a purpose, unless they are in pain. I let it do it's job. Hope she's ok!!

I don't want to alarm you with what I'm about to tell you so please be patient. When my daughter was 1 yrs old she was in the hospital with RSV (which is a serious virus that affects the lungs). Before they hospitalized her, she had frequent fevers, and like your daughter no other signs of distress.

On the day she was hospitalized, I sent her to daycare not knowing how sick he really was! After about an hour, her teacher called me to tell me she didn't like how Leah looked and that I should take her back to drs. My drs. office told me to take to the ER immediately. I felt horrible sending her to school that day, but I didn't know.

Again, didn't mean to upset you, but the same thing happened to my daugther and it was RSV. Good luck!

I'm assuming you have been to the ped. with her fevers, so they may have already checked this, but my daughter had a really high fever that they couldn't find the cause of. They eventually checked her urine and it was a UTI. If untreated, UTI's can lead to bladder and kidney infections. Because of the UTI and her being under 2 (she was 5 months at the time), they tested her for urinary reflux which can cause recurrent UTI's. If the docs haven't already checked her urine, make sure they do!

When my youngest was 16 months he had a 105 fever. We were told that if they couldn't find any sign of infection they would do urine tests and blood cultures to rule out other things. It did turn out to be an ear infection in both ears so we were safe. We were told that it was best to go to a specific children's hospital and not our local one as they weren't equipped to deal with pediatric patients. Not sure if your specialist is specifically for children but if not it may be worth looking into one who is.

See if they are going to consider doing these kind of tests.

103 is not a good thing. On the other hand, babies' fevers tend to spike pretty high. DEFINATELY talk to a specialist, preferably when she HAS a fever. Be sure she gets plenty of fluids. Dehydration can cause temps to soar, and water intake can lower body temps. We went through that at age 1, but we had ear infections repeatedly. And the doc put our daughter on a low dose of antibiotic after infection #4, to prevent any more, so she wouldn't end up with hearing loss. When June came, she had us stop the antibiotics, and after that our daughter was fine. She hasn't had another one since, and she's 15.

Can I ask how you know there's no ear infection ? I'm assuming you went to the doc to have that confirmed ? Sadly, there are other places where one can have an infection: bladder, kidney, etc., and you won't really know unless she's got the infection when she's checked. (A UTI doesn't usually carry a fever, but our youngest daughter had one with a HIGH fever that caused her blood sugar to soar and stuff and they almost hospitalized her when it was nothing but the bladder infection.)

Good luck ! Before you go to the specialist, put your heads together, and try to think of every symptom you could find when she had her fevers. The more info you can provide, the better the discussion. I think it's a lot easier for a doctor to check things out and find clues if the doc sees your child when she's actually sick. But who knows? Maybe he or she will be able to provide answers -- and if nothing else, they'd be prepared to respond next time she gets sick.

Good luck !

My daughter had what I call phantom fevers from August to December when she was three years old. She is about to turn five. There were no other symptoms and the fevers were sometimes really high and last for a short period of time. Other times the fever was barely noticeable (99 degrees) and would last for five days or more. Then she would have no fever for a week or more. In December my daughter started to complain that her legs hurt but I just associated that with growing pains. I finally took her to the doctor and they ran extensive blood tests and she was diagnosed with Lyme’s. I am not sure where you live, but I live in Southern Chester County and Lyme’s is very common. Good luck, I hope works out well for you and your daughter.