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Thermometer question: any insight?
Riley is very obviously running a fever this morning. She's hot to the touch (not even really warm, but hot), her cheeks are really red, she's tired, etc. She's eating and drinking plenty of water ok, or I'd have called the pedi already, it's that bad.
Anyway, my temporal thermometer read anywhere from 99.0 to 99.6 on her forehead and major arteries. I would *swear* her fever is more like 101 or higher (I have always been able to guess within a degree or less by touch), so I got out the regular thermometer and tried under her arm. Even with taking the extra degree into account, that read 97.0. I tried under my arm, and it came out to 98.7 with the extra degree. Then I tried her temp rectally, and it was 97.7.
WTF? I just knew that she has a pretty high temp, but I have no idea what to think now.
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Re: Thermometer question: any insight?
Do you know what her "normal" temp is? Maybe her normal is low and that's why she feels warmer to you?
IDK, just guessing here.
PCOS, Ectopic & M/C of twins October 2010, Currently TTC #2
Sometimes kids will flush and feel warm but they won't have a fever. Usually it'll come in a few hours, but sometimes they just don't. It's weird.
If she feels punky, medicate her. If she feels fine, let it ride.
Wee - Those are the only two thermometers we have at the house, and I really don't want to haul her out for a trip to Walgreens if I don't have to. She's pretty miserable. I gave her some Motrin, and I keep pushing the water, and I'm waiting to see if that brings it down. If not, we'll probably be going to the pedi either way.
Jensneb - Her normal temp is around 98.5 or so, so it's not that.
I'm so confused!! LOL
Huh, I've never heard of that. How weird, I'll have to see if she comes up with the high fever later or something then.
I did medicate, because she is MISERABLE.
The only reasons are because it feels really high, and she's miserable to the point of being lethargic. Beyond the normal "I just want to sit here and not move" that she normally is with a fever. She slept 14 hours last night, she can barely walk without falling asleep (she's run into the walls twice because she can't keep her eyes open), and anytime she sits down for more than 30 seconds she's out. I had to keep waking her up to make her walk around the living room just to get some dry cereal and water in her earlier. Right now she's passed out in the middle of the floor with a pillow and blanket. It's way beyond her normal "I'm sick" actions.
I take Oisin if it comes back after a dose of motrin. Most of the time for him, high temp = ear infection.
Not just kids - this is still totally me. I can't count the number of times over the years DH has insisted I must have a fever because of how flushed/sweaty/warm my skin is and my temp comes out at 97 or so. It's very weird.
When I worked at the daycare, parents would give their kids fever reducing drugs and then send them without a fever. The kids would still feel just as hot as if they had an actual fever, but it would be super low on the thermometer like 97. Had she had Motrin or anything before you noticed fever symptoms?
I hope she feels better soon.
Nope. She woke up this morning, and came and crawled into bed with me like usual, and I noticed that she was burning up. I was half asleep and thought maybe it was just the fleece sleeper she had on, so I stripped her of that, gave her a t-shirt, and then let her go back to sleep, and she slept for another 2 hours in my bed (with only a thin sheet over her), and then woke up still burning up.