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Knew injury and fever lasting 15 days
Hi Dr., my son is 6 yrs old and he met knee injury, slipped from slide. and one day prior from that he had fever also. now we undergone knee injury treatment, given antibiotics Augament and some other for fever. even after 15 days, fever is lasting and not very good improvement in knee pain.
did blood test and knee X-ray followed by MRI, there was nothing much in x-ray, MRI shows minimal fluid in knee. Blood test show ESR 120 and CRP 60. Dr. is not able to correlate these high numbers with knee infaction and why fever is lasting for too long
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Quadriceps Exercises- Lie straight, make a towel role and put it under the knee, press the keen against the role, hold it for 20 secs. Repeat 20 times twice a day. This will help relieve some pain.
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An examination of the knee will help assess if it's potentially infected. One could consider changing antibiotics to cephalosporins if knee infection is suspected. An aspiration of knee and sending the fluid for culture and sensitivity and Gene xpert for TB will be helpful to rule out infection. Other sources of infection like chest, throat, Gastrointestinal and urinary tract should be ruled out.
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