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Kid having fever of 103.6

2025-01-19 19:33:53
Fever is not dropping after taking 5 ml of paracetamol 250mg..the temperature is around 103.5 or 103.6
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Usually paracetamol dosage is like 15mg per kg but you didn't mention the weight of your kid

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Weight of the child is required for accurate calculation of dose.
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Until that try tepid sponging to get the temperature down

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Kindly consult online as weight is required
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Tepid sponging

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U didn’t not told about age and weight of child, do tepid sponging, and give acc 15 mg/kg , if fever not getting down then consider to go hospital and iv inj

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