107.1!

a_crftyldy · Jan 31, 2004

Don't know if anyone has heard of this or not, but my grandmother had an old scottish remedy for bringing fevers down and as crazy as it sounds it really works. She would chop up an onion, put in some socks, then put the socks on, then take a shot of wiskey. My parents tried it on me once when I ran one of my high fevers and they said when I woke up the fever was gone. I've tried it on my kids (minus the wiskey) and it worked for them as well. Don't know the exact mechanisms of it but I do know it works.

**canoehead, BSN, RN** · Jan 31, 2004

My sister ran a temp of 106-106.5 over the course of a week with a mouth infection. She was hallucinating and thrashing in her sleep. My parents took her to the doc several times that week and he refused to admit her on the grounds that she was still taking fluids and they would do nothing else for her in the hospital. It was a viral infection, but still, she was 6 years old and we lived 30 minutes from the nearest doctor.

Elenaster · Jan 31, 2004

I've seen a few greater than 106F, always in patients with head injuries that have the "hypothalamic storm," as well call it. They often shake, shudder, and appear to be seizing, as well as become extremely tachypnic and tachycardic. We do the cooling blanket, ice them down, alternate tylenol and motrin (if they don't have a bleed). We also pan culture every few days to rule out infectious process.

The families almost always totally freak out, and I've found it's really difficult to explain the pathphysiology behind it as well as why we can't "fix" the problem.