Help - High Temp!!?!?!?!?!?!

My baby has been acting very out of character for the past few days ...tonight he's burning up, 39.1 was his last temp reading, his cheeks are bright red ...and he's very restless in his sleep. Has been only picking at food for days (which I didn't think much of, he's always a fussy/picky eater) but he has been quite grizzly and I can see an eyetooth coming down. He's been tugging at his ears a little, no cold or sign of flu/congestion etc.

Not sure what to do? I'm not even sure if we have pamol in the house ...I'm really worried but theres no rashes of any kind and he seems to be breathing fine etc. Could it just be teething?

He's 19 months, weighs about 14.5-15kg ...I'm searching everywhere for pamol atm, any idea what the dosage is? How bloody useless am I....he's always such a chirpy wee poppet and we never use the stuff ..

Hey Steph, just quickly - when you find the pamol..

If the pamol you have is 120mg/5mls (it will say on the label), he should have 8mls (dosage for 14-15kg).

If the pamol is 250mg/5mls, it's 4mls.

Don't panic, if you don't find the pamol I think you need to get some, if you give him pamol and his temp is still high then ring plunketline or get him checked out

You could try stripping clothes off him, cool flannel on his forehead..

Yeah they just put on the dosage for his weight at the time. I have a chart my mum gave me from the doctors. It will still be fine, pamol keeps for ages

I freaked out the first time Harry had a temp too... he had one tonight too, random, think it might be teeth coming through.

Yeah I usually put him in a sleepsuit because he doesn't like having any blankets on him and our room gets pretty cold of a night time.

He's sleeping soundly now, but still bright red and quite hot ...and I've taken the sleepsuit off his top half but left it covering his little leggies

How is he doing this morning Steph?

If his temp is still up I'd think about taking him to the doc, I tend to take mine if the temp gets over 39 degrees or 38.5 if I don't know what's causing the fever.

He appears to be doing much better this morning - would you believe we've only just woken up? Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the clock...

His temp is 37.3 -37.4 at the moment, he still feels a little clammy but he seems in a good enough mood (erm dancing to Pink as we speak rofl).Full of smiles so far.

We had 4 heavy wet nappies during the night, Everytime he woke up wanting booby I let him feed off me, for comfort and fluid intake. Mind you I'll probably regret that today when he won't eat any food ..


Oh and he has a bit of a raspy cough and his nose was running a little last night, we have an eye tooth soooo close to cutting through the gum ...I REALLY think it must have be something to do with that

Maya wrote: Ugh Lu, hope James is OK now? It never seems to end for you guys? Glad to hear wee Lucas is doing better this morning

aww hun yep james is all good still a little rosy cheeked but dancing and siging now lol
glad to hear lucas is doing well man thses kids love to keep ya on your toes