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High fever of 102 -104 for three days
My son is 2.4 years old, has got fever 102-104 for three days, we first gave him paracetamol for 3 days, fever was recurrent. We visited doctor also yesterday evening, he prescribed meftal - p and taxim. Fever is back this morning 104, gave him second dose of meftal-p. We are now worried, could be typhoid, do we have to wait for two days for blood tests to be done? Doctor said, typhoid can't be detected in three days, please suggest?
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Most fevers in children are viral in origin and take 3-7 days to subside completely.
If not accompanied by any other symptoms like vomiting or loose motions or coughing and breathlessness or dullness and refusal to feed,just give paracetamol for fever and repeat every 4 hours if required.
Yes,test for typhoid fever won't reflect in blood tests before 5 days.
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