[Callan]

I have I one year old that is burning up 104. She sleept all day yesterday other then wanting to drink LOTS of water she can't get enough and shakes when doing so and usually she can walk very well. She's not able to walk at all and is very weak! Should I keep alternating the meds or take her in immediately?

[smoothy]

When is the last time they were at the doctor? I really hope you say its been in the last 12 hours. Seriously, you should have taken them in by the time it hit 102 F. YOU should have been to the Emergency Room at least once sine it hit 104F

If you had a 104 temprature I don't think you would be walking around well at all either. That's only one degree from the possibility of brain damage happening. And I'm not kidding about the seriouslness of this.

[J_9]

Please get her to the ER as soon as possible. Children this age should be seen by a doctor when their temp reaches 100.4

[odinn7]

Holy crap! 104 and you're asking on a website about medicine? I really hope you are at the ER now... this poor child could be facing brain damage at those temperatures.

[J_9]

Hey, folks, kids can withstand temps as high as 104 with little to no brain damage. Adults can't stand temps that high.

FYI, temperatures in little ones gets increases the chance for immunities later in life, thus lessening the chance for the same illness to cause a reaction as serious as the first the first about with the illness.

While temps that high can be frightening, but actually can be a good thing as it boosts the immune system into overdrive.

Fever does not cause brain damage. In a person with a normal functioning brain, and the ability to cool oneself, fever is normal response to infection. Every normal brain has a internal “thermostat” that will prevent a person’s temperature from getting high enough to cause brain damage. It is only when hyperthermia, or heat stroke, occurs when damage to the brain and other organs will occur. Hyperthermia happens in the rare instances when an individual’s brain cannot regulate temperature well (as in a rare case of brain injury) or when an individual is not able to cool oneself (as in a closed car on a summer day.) Fever due to illness in a normal child will not cause organ damage.

I just found this to be very informative...

Fever in children: 5 facts you must know

I stated 100.4 because that is the temp that we use for the infants when we discharge the baby home with the parent.