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Temperatures - What is Too High?
Thanks again for everyone's input and I'm sorry to clog the board, but I have this inquiry out to all my friends/family but would appreciate your input too as you seem an experienced bunch.
How high does your child's temperature's have to be before you hit the emergency room? After one week of diarrhea, but no temperature, Vietbabe got feverish yesterday in the late afternoon, hitting 101.5 at 6 pm. Despite both Motrin and Tylenol in the right dosages at the right times as per my call to the doctor, she awoke at midnight with 102.5. More Motrin and Tylenol but hard to give her b/c she's so upset and feeling bad.
At 3 am, she awoke next to me with heat waves emanating from her and soaked in sweat. Her temp was 105.5.
I doused her with cold water, threw her in the car and hit the emergency room where they were able to get her temp down to 102 by using a Tylenol suppository. I'm not going to go into my efforts to find out what's causing all this. For now I've been told that her fever will probably spike up again tonight. I'm scared, and don't know what I should do. I got the Tylenol suppositories . The docs act all nonchalant about the 105.5 thing because they say an infant can't get brain damage until about 110 or more. But how high should I let her temp tonight before I get in the car? Should I hire a night nurse to help me medicate her in the middle of the night and to help me take her temperature? I don't know that having someone here is the issue. I think beyond 105 or 106, I'm simply not comfortable unless I know that there is stuff outside the room like that machine that jumpstarts the heart and every other gadget, as well as people who know how to use them (in other words, a hospital!!)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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