I'm a future nursing student starting a BSN program this Fall (yeah)!
My daughter (21 months) has been running fever now (intermittant, as I think it goes down while she's sleeping) for 12 days. Highest it's been though is 100.7 rectal. Had her urine checked b/c she recently had a kidney infection but it was clear (this was on Sat.). I normally would maybe assume she just runs a higher temp since it's on the cusp of normal, but she normally runs a much lower temperature, in fact it's quite low when she's asleep or just woken up. It's been as low as 96.6 when I've taken it during the night (again, rectal). Her normal daytime temp runs around 98.9 (rectal). And with the UTI she ran around the same temps (highest 100.4) for the previous 5 days before it spiked and I took her to the ER at 105. So, as of late, 100.2-100.4 means something is going on, not that that can change and be "normal" for a kid, but it was about a month ago that she had the kidney infection and the 100.2-100.4 did mean her body was fighting something. She has no other symptoms but last night she slept for 16 hours straight and then today, after only being awake for 2.5 hours took a nap for another 2 hours. Both times I had to go in and wake her up. When she's awake she acts completely normal, eating, drinking, and playing fine. Oh...I have also noticed maybe 3 small bruises on her trunk in the last week. This is the first time I have noticed bruises on her trunk. They have now all faded and there are no new ones. She may be bruising more easily but I can't be for sure. She takes flovent 44 twice a day (for RAD) and Keflex once a day until we get her renal US and VCUG results back (tests were done on Mon.). Other history is a vascular ring repair (double aortic arch, a congenital heart defect) in Dec. (she is not at a higher risk for endocarditis than the gen. population, however). Her CBC a month ago showed eleveated WBCs 22,000 and an elevated CRP so I assume that since her WBCs weren't like "leukemia" high then that they wouldn't be now, so am I right to not be worried about that....
I just took her temp again and it was 100.9 so it seems to be going up just a bit.
