torah613613torah -“Oomis is exactly right. If a child is seizing or very sick, it doesn’t matter what the fever is, they need immediate attention. Alternatively, if the child seems fine but has 102 or 103, he’s probably fine.”
Yea she’s right, but you just contradicted yourself and I quote:
“Health, you’re wrong. A 103 fever is extremely dangerous unless it immediately starts to go down.”
How could the kid be fine and it’s extremely dangerous at the same time?
You probably read in some book this about kids or you have minimal medical education like an EMT or something. Now I’m going to have to write a post explaining what I meant. I should have figured that in the CR I just can’t write a simple thing without s/o jumping on me. But don’t worry I’ll just quote the AAP so e/o will understand. I’m going to write for a layman so all those Dr. Welby’s out there will have to realize that and ask questions based on that. We have (Medical Prof) different protocols based on what the fever is – on how to work it up.